Mark Richardson

District 5 City Council Member Ann Kitchen will have a town hall meeting Saturday to speak with district residents and give updates regarding recent Council activities. While the program will be largely driven by the interests of District 5 residents, all are invited to participate. The session will begin with Kitchen’s report and an update […]

The city and other local agencies and employers are sponsoring a Career Expo on Tuesday. More than 100 employers will have job opportunities in information technology, engineering, manufacturing, banking and health care. Participants are encouraged to bring résumés and dress professionally for one-on-one meetings with potential employers. The event will take place from noon to 5 […]

The MoPac Improvement Project team says it will temporarily close a portion of the MoPac expressway in order to move the first piece of a 525-foot long bicycle and pedestrian bridge into place Thursday night. The bridge will be moved over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks south of Duval Road. Officials with the Central Texas […]

A partnership between the Austin Water Utility and the Austin Independent School District has saved the district about 11.7 million gallons of water, or enough to provide water to 195 average households for a year. AISD took advantage of Austin Water’s new Commercial Audit Rebate Program to help pay for comprehensive water efficiency audits for […]

New sculptures have recently been installed in the cellphone parking lot area at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Landscaping work around the new art was completed last week. The two new sculptures, “Checker Burst” and “Shock Egg,” are inspired by and interpretations of vapor cones (called “shock eggs”), a phenomenon that can occur as a flying object […]

As part of Cities United for Immigration Action, Judge Sarah Eckhardt has announced that Travis County will join 73 other cities and counties to file a new friend-of-the-court brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Texas vs. United States lawsuit. The brief urges immediate implementation of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Eckhardt said […]

Art in Public Places, a program of the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department, is seeking to commission a professional artist or artist team to create a permanent exterior public artwork for Republic Square Park. Professional visual artists who live and work in the state of Texas are eligible to […]

As part of Earth Month, the national Parks Build Community initiative is looking to award a $20,000 grant to improve an Austin park, and Austinites get to choose which one. The event is sponsored by Disney, ABC Television Group, ESPN and the National Recreation and Park Association. Through April 30, Austin residents will have the opportunity […]

Austin-area first responders, including APD executive staff, will step behind the counter with Ronald McDonald and members of the 100 Club of Central Texas and the Hill Country 100 Club at 11 a.m. today for the 8th Annual Good Friday Fundraiser. The event will help support the 100 Clubs and provide awareness about the services […]

Come Monday, as part of the City Manager’s Traffic Congestion Action Plan, Austin Police officers along with the City of Austin Transportation Department will begin enforcing the Don’t Block the Box campaign. The goal is to reduce traffic congestion on Austin’s major arterial roadways and in the Downtown Central Business District. Implementation of the campaign will […]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the American Planning Association have recognized the City of Austin with the 2015 HUD Secretary’s Opportunity and Empowerment Award for its Mueller Redevelopment and Reuse Plan. The plan called for the conversion of the former Mueller Municipal Airport into a mixed-use, mixed-income community to help revitalize […]

Travis County ranked high on overall health compared to all participating counties in the state for the annual County Health Rankings. It was ranked ninth out of 237 Texas counties. The report was released recently by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Health officials say the survey underscores […]