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First small IKEA opening in Texas. Will it replace Buc-ee's as the next roadside icon?
Texas loves miniature stores, and the Swedish home goods giant, IKEA, is opening its first small-scale store in Texas.
H-E-B tackles $30M Texas-sized expansion in booming Austin suburb
Aledo is the latest community H-E-B has set its sights on during its North Texas expansion. The Walsh Ranch H-E-B is aiming ...
Who's to blame for Texas flooding tragedy? There is a lot of finger pointing.
The catastrophe was caused by a perfect storm of difficult-to-forecast rainfall and fast-moving water. Some wonder if budget ...
American-Statesman's top 50 Central Texas athletes of the 2024-25 year
From football to volleyball and swimming to baseball, the American-Statesman had the task of naming the top 50 high school ...
Camp Mystic counselor Katherine Ferruzzo confirmed dead in Texas Hill Country floods, family says
Katherine Ferruzzo had been accepted to the University of Texas at Austin for the fall semester and planned to become a ...
FACT FOCUS: No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas
Regardless, the process cannot create storms out of thin air. Ken Leppert, an associate professor of atmospheric science at ...
Texas A&M football: 3 position battles to watch in fall camp
Texas A&M football enters the 2025 season with many intriguing position battles to watch for. We analyze three of the best as ...
Heavy rain in Central Texas leaves 7 dead, many others missing in Travis, Burnet counties
A teenage girl who was witnessed being washed away is among those missing, the chief of Travis County Emergency Services ...
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Home prices, new restaurants: 6 top stories in Northwest Austin from the last month
From higher median home prices in some areas to local hospital system updates, here are six of the top-read stories from ...