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Diana Zoga’s reporting takes her home almost daily. One of NBC 5’s Collin County reporters, she covers the community she grew up in.

Losing football games is one thing at the University of Texas. A challenge to the hallowed school song is quite another.

A new center for research and education into stuttering is being created at the University of Texas at Austin, the university announced Monday.

Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte said Wednesday he expects players to “stand together as a unified group” to show appreciation for the school and fans during the playing of the school song “The Eyes of Texas” after games, but didn’t say what will happen if they refuse.

Activists and leaders in the right wing of the Texas Republican Party joined a crowd of about 200 at the state governor’s mansion to protest some of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s orders intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Three people were injured when their single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area northwest of Austin on Monday afternoon, Texas authorities said.

An Austin man has been arrested after using a scooter to break the window of a jewelry store on Sunday night, police said.

John Hellerstedt, MD, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), repeatedly declined interview requests from NBC 5 Investigates to find out why the EVVE has not been implemented in the state. At an Austin event, we asked the commissioner about the Texas-born kids in Mexico struggling to get their birth records from his agency.

As out-of-work artists leave expensive cultural centers like New York City, and venues struggle not to close permanently, concerns are growing about whether the arts industry can recover from the pandemic.

As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, some forms of the arts are finding ways to continue — at least in some capacity — in our new socially-distanced reality. But live music, which relied on closely packing venues with fans, remains silenced. That’s why live venues are banding together to ask for help to “save our stages.”

A Texas man is sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to stalking and sending threatening letters about pop star Taylor Swift.

Two cranes collided Wednesday at a construction site in Austin, causing one of them to partially collapse and injuring at least 22 workers who were sent scrambling for safety, authorities said.

Two cranes collided Wednesday at a construction site in Austin, causing one of them to partially collapse and injuring at least 22 workers who were sent scrambling for safety, authorities said.

As part of the Texas Tribune Festival, the Texas Tribune CEO moderated a forum of six Texas Mayors. They included the Mayors of Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso. COVID-19 was the first subject.

UT drum major says she will no longer conduct the school’s fight song, “The Eyes of Texas,” due to its racist history.

As heat waves rose from the crackling grass next to a cotton field that stretched far into the distance, Rick Porter watched his young football players struggle through a preseason practice.

A Texas court has launched what the state says is the nation’s first virtual jury trial in a criminal case.

22 people were arrested over two nights of demonstrations in Austin to protest law enforcement handling of a protester’s shooting death at a previous demonstration, police said Monday. Most of the arrests happened Sunday in front of the Austin police headquarters, where 18 people were taken into custody, according to a police statement. Four others were arrested Saturday at the…

A soldier and an ex-federal employee have pleaded guilty to stealing and selling more than $1 million in military gear taken from a Texas National Guard camp.

Forty people were arrested over two nights of weekend protests in Austin, police said Monday.