Beth Bond

For a bit of motivation to explore nature in your immediate surroundings, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Nature Trackers program encourage people to document their local biodiversity April 26-29 as part of the City Nature Challenge. It’s a chance to get outside – just out your front door, in your yard […]

Volunteers are needed for Travis County Parks and the Colorado River Alliance’s inaugural Spring Cleanup from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, April 20. You can help remove and recycle litter across seven parks in eastern Travis County: Northeast Metro Park, East Metro Park, Webberville Park, Barkley Meadows Park, Richard Moya Park, Onion Creek Greenway and Southeast Metro […]

The League of Women Voters Austin Area will hold the 2024 Friends & Family Spring Festival on Saturday, April 27. The festival is a free outdoor event for the entire Austin community that aims to get youth excited about voting. There will be live music, treats from Kona Ice, a democracy-themed treasure hunt with prizes, […]

Save Austin’s Cemeteries is an organization dedicated to preserving city-owned historic cemeteries through documentation, preservation and education and promoting them as local and state cultural resources. Its Spring Tour is a chance to learn about the cemeteries with drop-in history tours. Join in from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Oakwood […]

With National Volunteer Week coming up on April 21-27, Central Texas’ blood bank, We Are Blood, is spotlighting the 100-plus volunteers who staff its canteens daily, helping make blood donors’ experience better by giving them drinks and snacks to stay well-hydrated and boost glucose levels after blood loss. We Are Blood is the sole provider […]

For the 13th year, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center is hosting La Mujer: A Celebration of Women, this time at the women-owned Cathedral Art Gallery at 2403 E. 16th St. from 1-6 p.m. Sunday, April 21. The annual event aims for women in Austin’s Mexican American and Latina/o/x/e community to be seen, heard […]

Texas remains one of the most dangerous states for people being killed in traffic crashes. In 2023, 105 people died while riding bicycles statewide. In response, the volunteer group Austin Ghost Bike Project installs white memorial bikes near the scenes of fatality crashes. The organization – along with Safe Streets Austin and Farm&City – is […]

Easter Sunday – which this year falls on March 31 – is one of the busiest days for the entire Travis County Parks system, so residents are encouraged to plan ahead and arrive early for their festivities. The parks will be open as usual, and Travis County will monitor capacity. If a park reaches maximum […]

The first of 10 new floodgates was installed on Burnet County’s Wirtz Dam, which forms Lake LBJ. It is part of Lower Colorado River Authority’s $76 million, three-year project to remove and replace each of the dam’s original floodgates with new, custom-built floodgates made to today’s engineering standards. The dam was completed in 1951 with […]

The Austin Police Association (APA) and the city meet at 10 a.m. today to continue negotiations on the terms of the Austin Police Department meet and confer agreement. In negotiating a long-term contract, their goal is to address community concerns, navigate current legal challenges and earn City Council approval.  The meeting will be livestreamed here.

A ribbon-cutting at Duncan Neighborhood Park, 900 W. Ninth St., is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13, when enhancements to the park will be unveiled, including a wetland feature with an overlook area created by the removal of 420 cubic yards of soil, which was later added to the BMX section of the park. […]

For a dozen years, the Austin area has been the nation’s fastest-growing large metro – and now it’s slipped into second place, according to new estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. They show the remaining fastest-growing and largest-gaining counties in the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio metros. The slower growth rate in the […]