Update March 27, 2025: The Kansas City Star reported today that the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri, voted unanimously to terminate the employment of City Manager Brian Platt. The City of Austin ...

Chief Appraiser Leana Mann told the Board of Directors of Travis Central Appraisal District yesterday that 2,593 homeowners will lose their homestead exemptions. That’s a result of the audit underway ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

Mayor Kirk Watson spent more than $1 million to win reelection in 2024. That equates to 34 percent of the combined $3.1 million spent by all 22 mayoral and council candidates. To see the Bulldog’s ...

After the City’s Ethics Review Commission held preliminary hearings Wednesday night, commissioners voted unanimously to find probable cause that both Ashika Ganguly and Krista Laine violated Austin ...

District 7 has 71,240 registered voters eligible to cast ballots in the December 14 th runoff, Tiffany Seward, communications division director in the Travis County Tax Office, told the Bulldog ...

The Bulldog reported October 23 rd that the Vibrant Austin political action committee paid for false advertising published on the Austin American-Statesman’s website. The ad wrongly stated District 10 ...

Austin City Hall hosted a live audience of about 25 people for an October 3 rd Mayoral Candidate Forum sponsored by the Austin League of Women Voters, which included all five candidates. The event was ...

Travis Central Appraisal District’s Board of Directors on September 5 th committed a blatant violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). The board voted 7-1 to countersue 23 Travis County ...

The Travis County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to approve Central Health’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget and tax rate Tuesday, including the $35 million a year that goes to UT Austin for Dell ...

“It is the policy of the City that the proper operation of democratic government requires that public officials and employees be independent, impartial and responsible to the people; that governmental ...