Talk of water restrictions in the Austin area has begun as drought conditions worsen. Anticipating future wildfires, the construction of an emergency evacuation road for Steiner Ranch is nearing the completion of its design stage.
The big "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening event at the Tesla Gigafactory is today, watch for potential traffic snarls nearby - the event starts at 4 this afternoon.
It's not just you, the rent is ridiculous for just about everybody as the area sees a 34% single-year jump in one bedroom rental rates.
And it's also not just you sneezing as oak pollen saw a huge spike across Central Texas yesterday due to windy conditions - hackberry pollen came in very high on Wednesday as well.
A continuing surge in accidental opioid overdose deaths across Texas is being attributed to the steadily increasing presence of fentanyl in street drugs.
Local business leaders are rallying behind proposed federal legislation that would incentivize domestic microchip manufacturing, which would positively impact Austin's growing chip production base.
Bob Bowlsby, commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, announces an early retirement brought on in part by the chaos that has resulted from the departure of UT and OU.
Weekend entertainment includes the MotoGP Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas motorcycle races at Circuit of the Americas Friday thru Sunday. Live music for the weekend sees Friday shows with Charli XCX at ACL Live, and Mount Westmore with Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Too Short and E-40 at Round Rock Amp. And Saturday catch the Liberty Lunch Reunion at the Far Out Lounge, Delta Spirit at the Mohawk and Porches at the Scoot Inn.
And, today's your last day to register for two elections to be held in May, including a city ordinance that would ban arrests for marijuana possession and also ban no-knock warrants, and the settling of runoffs that resulted from the March primary election. Make sure you get it right - as many as 25,000 mail-in ballots in that primary a few weeks ago were rejected under new state voting restrictions, almost 13 percent of them.
