Nora Ankrum

Voting fever continued Tuesday with record-breaking turnout at the polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Reporting from the county clerk shows that 35,296 people, or 5.26 percent of registered voters, cast ballots at the county’s early voting locations on Tuesday, surpassing Monday’s number (33,677) and more than doubling the 15,593 (2.76 percent) who voted […]

Austin Water customers who would like a say in the establishment of water and wastewater rates are encouraged to attend a meeting tonight of the Public Involvement Committee. The committee has been created to represent Austin Water’s retail customer classes – residential, multifamily, commercial and large volume – as the utility undergoes a cost-of-service study […]

The Austin Animal Center is hosting a free clinic this weekend to provide rabies vaccinations and microchipping for dogs and cats that are at least 12 weeks old. Pets that are younger don’t qualify for vaccinations, but they can still get a microchip and free ID tags with registration in the Animal Services database. The […]

As part of Austin Design Week in November, a studio tour on Nov. 10 will be showcasing projects that are part of the city’s new Design, Technology, and Innovation Fellows Program. The idea behind the program is that fellows use their design skills to find creative solutions to civic problems. Right now, fellows are working […]

If there’s such a thing as a good time to clean out the medicine cabinet, it’s this weekend. Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an effort by the Drug Enforcement Agency to tackle prescription drug abuse by pulling leftover meds off the streets, or in this case, out of the cabinets, drawers and […]

The ATC Policy Coalition, Austin Tech Alliance and TechVotes are kicking off early voting this year with the Tech Votes Rally. Attendees will get the chance to schmooze with tech policy folks, “get briefed on the ballot” and learn about Proposition 1 from Mayor Steve Adler. Among the special speakers will be the Austin Monitor‘s […]

North Shoal Creek residents are invited to the second in a series of neighborhood workshops that are part of the process of developing the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan. The plan will help guide future development in the area, which is home to about 3,700 residents. As the second neighborhood plan to be developed since […]

The Austin Public Library hosts free movie screenings at various locations around town, often with special talks and events tied to them. This month’s lineup begins with a screening and discussion of the documentary GTFO, about discrimination in the videogame industry. The event, which is part of the library’s ongoing “Controversy & Conversation” series, will […]

The Austin Board of Realtors reported on Tuesday that September sales of single-family homes showed a 4.5 percent decline year-over-year within Austin’s city limits; meanwhile, the median price went up by 10.6 percent (to $345,000). At the same time, data for the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area show a 1.3 percent increase in home sales […]

A hearing related to a lawsuit filed against the Texas Department of Transportation and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority was held last week. The plaintiffs – which include the Save Our Springs Alliance, the Save Barton Creek Association and others – contend that construction of State Highway 45 Southwest and the extension of the […]

Should Interstate-35 be raised or lowered as it passes through downtown? The Texas Department of Transportation wants to know the answer to this and other pressing questions about the section of I-35 that cuts through the heart of Austin, from Riverside Drive to U.S. 183. TxDOT is conducting a study of that stretch of the […]

Anyone planning to fly into or out of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport this week should prepare for crowds, according to a press release from the city. Thanks to the Formula One United States Grand Prix, traffic through the airport will be higher than usual, particularly on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 23 and 24, once the race […]