Austin News

Crews with chainsaws and large City of Austin trucks spent Friday afternoon clearing a large oak tree that fell onto the street at 9th and San Antonio.

Two 15-year-old girls told police a man sexually assaulted one of them after they got in his car in North Austin, according to an arrest affidavit.

The annual Agents & Editors Conference put on by the Writers League of Texas is perhaps the premiere literary conference in Texas.

Austin is the 11th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of about 843,000, but it's the 33rd-largest metro area in the country with about 1.8 million residents.

Most food fans have followed, or have at least heard of, popular Food Network competition show Chopped .

Austin police are enforcing a no-refusal initiative for Memorial Day weekend beginning at 9 p.m. Friday and ending at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Clockwise from top left: Sarah Harbison, 15; Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; and Jennifer Harbison, 17, were found murdered inside the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in North Austin on Dec.

Officials say a man wearing only a black shirt and an orange hat led police officers on a foot chase in East Austin on Tuesday after a woman reported seeing him standing naked from the waist down with an erection outside the bedroom window of her two young sons.

Among her peers, 17-year-old Emily Schexnayder says sexual orientation is not an issue when it comes to being involved in Scouting or school activities.

Yikes. A seemingly family-friendly game of kickball ended in a trip to the hospital.

Indianapolis has gotten bumped from its spot as the nation’s 12th-largest city. Blame Austin, Texas.

Austin's Austin-Bergstrom International Airport really aims to embody the area it serves without seeming inauthentic.

NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars.

A Ft. Hood soldier has been arrested, accused of being an accomplice in the kidnapping and sexual assault of an Austin woman last week.

Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight year.

The man is Michael Jastroch of ColdTowne Theater, and he's in the mood to 1) drink a dirty martini, and 2) tell people about the upcoming Austin Sketch Fest.

Until last Thursday, I honestly had no idea how many flamenco fans lived in Austin.

The line of dancers snaked around the theater in Los Angeles, where a second day of auditions took place for Season 10 of "So You Think You Can Dance." In the lobby, hopefuls rehearsed their best moves and chatted with host Cat Deeley.

Accused Fort Hood shooting spree gunman Major Nidal Hasan asked a U.S. military judge on Wednesday for permission to fire his court-appointed lawyers and represent himself at his court martial, a Fort Hood spokesman said.

"Everything about America changed after Kennedy was shot. We lost our innocence," Evans said.