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After serving as interim police chief for Texas’ capital city since March, Joseph Chacon was named Wednesday as the permanent choice for the top spot in Austin. The appointment of Chacon, whose career with Austin police has spanned over 20 years, was announced by City Manager Spencer Cronk. It comes after a nationwide search for a new chief. Chacon has…

The man wanted for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a church near the Capitol Complex in Austin in August has been arrested.

Southwest Airlines will add nine new nonstop routes from Austin starting in March. Flight destinations include Charleston, South Carolina, Sarasota, Florida and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Two Austin police officers, including one already under a murder indictment, were indicted Friday in the July 2019 shooting of a scientist who neighbors reported as having a mental health crisis.

Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar of the nation’s pandemic response.

The Wild West nature of the upcoming, pandemic-challenged college football season can be illustrated in part by 160 miles of Texas highway that connects the trendy college city of Austin with the bustling metropolis of Houston.

A Texas couple was enjoying the views of San Diego County while on vacation to celebrate their wedding anniversary when suddenly, their rental car was slammed from behind not by another vehicle, but by a small airplane that made an emergency landing.

Austin City Limits is requiring a negative COVID-19 test result or proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to attend the October music festival.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday, his office says, just a day after attending a crowded indoor campaign event at the Republican Club at Heritage Ranch in Collin County.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has tested positive for COVID-19, according to his communications director. Mark Miner, the governor’s communications director, issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying the governor is tested for the virus daily and that on Tuesday he had a positive result.

The Texas governor is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and is not experiencing symptoms, Gov. Greg Abbott’s communications director said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has tested positive for COVID-19, according to his communications director.

Leaders from around the state Friday voiced support for Dallas County’s mask mandate as Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton fight to block it.

Leaders from around the state are standing with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. They’re in favor of wearing masks to stop the surge in COVID-19 and against Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. But as NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports, Jenkins has opposition too.

A teenager has been arrested after crashing his Tesla into a gas station in West Austin on Thursday morning.

A teenager escaped the fiery wreckage of a Tesla Model X after crashing into a telephone pole and gas pump early Thursday in Austin.

Three men won’t serve any additional jail time after reaching plea deals in an assault on a gay couple in downtown Austin.

After hundreds of people completed a Selma-to-Montgomery-style march on Saturday that started in Georgetown and ended at the state Capitol in Austin, activists from around the country gathered in Washington Monday to rally for voting rights.

Hundreds of people packed the steps of the Texas Capitol at a protest rally to make the end of a four-day march in support of voting rights.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents has unanimously voted to approve The University of Texas at Austin joining the Southeastern Conference.