ReconMR/Siena finds Gina Hinojosa up 4 points on the three-term governor while James Talarico leads Ken Paxton by 6.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A federal immigration officer charged with shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in January and lying about the circumstances to investigators made a brief initial appearance Thursday before a Minnesota judge after state authorities arrested him ahead of a separate hearing in federal court. During Thursday's hearing, Judge Paul Scoggin ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will visit Austin and College Station.

A man was arrested and charged with two felonies in connection with a north Austin shooting incident on Sept. 12.

Austin Police will welcome 38 cadets into its force after they graduate on Friday afternoon. Before graduation, though, the cadets had one last task to complete on Thursday morning as part of their training.

Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas announced a new nonprofit in Austin aimed at preventing child abuse.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said he should have shown more patience after the Longhorns' comeback win over Ohio State, addressing missed ESPN interviews and comments involving Arch Manning.

More than 40 years ago, neighbors found the bodies of a man and woman in their twenties at an apartment in Houston. No one had heard from the couple in days, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. They'd been stabbed, and the man had also been shot.

Back-to-back league champions, League One Volleyball (LOVB) Austin, announced that its first game of the season would be against a rival they defeated to make their way to the champions in the 2025-26 seasonLOVB Nebraska.

The 29th annual Austin Museum Day (AMD) is this Sunday, Sept. 20. According to its website, AMD is a "free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science."

A near riot broke out at the Indianapolis Speedrome on Saturday after an unsportsmanlike crash angered numerous spectators and led to an angry mob swarming the driver's race car.

Merriam-Webster.com has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, parasocial, and rickroll.

A man accused of assaulting a security officer at Huston-Tillotson University was arrested Sept. 6 and later charged with a third-degree felony, according to court documents.

Kovante Markail Williams is accused of shooting and killing 27-year-old Mykal Jones.

Investigators believe a 22-year-old Cedar Creek man killed two women, one in Bastrop and one in Austin.

Sheeran has faced backlash online as several other artists pulled out of the tour.

As of this week, the U.S. Postal Service is officially accepting letters addressed to Santa Claus as part of its Operation Santa initiative, which traces back to 1912.

Heads up, SNAP recipients: Your monthly benefit allotment is about to change.

What looked like a strange rock in a California creek turned out to be something much older and rarer.

Democrat James Talarico, a state lawmaker, and Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton remain deadlocked in the Texas Senate race less than seven weeks out from Election Day, according to a new poll released Thursday. The Hill/Emerson College Polling survey found 47 percent of state voters supported Talarico, while 46 percent backed Paxton in this race. [...]

Changes to Texas' HUB in late 2025 overhauled the program, kicking out thousands of companies from eligibility and leading to a much larger debate split down partisan lines over whether the program is fair for all business owners.

Despite our best chance of rain for the work week coming later this afternoon, we're still likely to get close to record heat later today (our third day in a row!) -Meteorologist Kristen Currie

The study shows remarkable jumps in every metric used to assess paid leave. Salary costs attributable to paid leave jumped sixfold between 2023 and 2025.

In this week's episode of Student News Now on KXAN+, a group of Austin Independent School District (ISD) parents and advocates took to the streets this past Sunday to push back against a possible Texas Education Agency (TEA) takeover. The goal of the rally was to educate others on how a takeover could impact local schools. The TEA is expected to announce ...

Data shows overdoses are dropping around Travis County, but leaders say there's room to better save lives.