Новости за 16.05.2023

Houston, BYU, Central Florida and Cincinnati all join the conference next season, and while Texas will play everyone in the new-look Big 12 at least once next season, they'll tangle with six of the teams back-to-back to create the 18-game slate.

Legislation that will increase medical billing transparency – by requiring hospitals to provide an itemized receipt to patients before sending their bill to collections – achieved final passage by the Senate on Tuesday.

Mosquitoes are a year-round problem in our area. An Entomology expert has some tips on staying safe from those disease-carriers. -- Rich Segal

The Austin City Limits Music Festival revealed the daily lineup for its 2023 edition, according to a news release from the event.

“We do weekly surveys looking for stranded sea turtles, nesting sea turtles, [and count] endangered species, [like] birds, things like that. But we all were always coming across odd items,” said Jace Tunnel, Reserve Director of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Roughly 16,000 people in east and southeast Austin lost power between 12:20 p.m. and 1:10 p.m. Tuesday. That number was at roughly 9,200 by 1:25 p.m.

The reptile was found in a ditch near La Grange in Fayette County, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office.

Some KXAN viewers also reached out to us to report they had experienced issues with the ATXfloods website during recent storms and heavy rainfall.

The Texas Longhorns and Alabama Crimson Tide will meet for an evening kickoff on Sept. 9 at Bryant-Denny Stadium, Texas Athletics announced.

Xylazine, commonly referred to as tranq, is a non-opiate sedative authorized in the U.S. only for veterinary use.

The city said Tuesday that staff has found blue-green algae in Lady Bird Lake and Lake Austin. These algae are presumed to be toxic.

The 96-year-old Marshall native received an honorary doctorate degree Sunday as part of UNT's Spring Commencement.

The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department is gearing up for an abundance of summer activities with a full-fledged recruiting effort.

A recent national survey found an increase in kids ages zero to five years old with hearing loss and speech delays.

KXAN earned three regional Edward R. Murrow awards, the Radio Television Digital News Association announced Monday.

A special team within the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has ruled out physical abuse allegations in more than 1,000 cases involving school employees. Records KXAN obtained show, in some cases, where DFPS investigators determined “physical abuse” didn’t occur, other agencies found the behavior — sometimes depicted in video surveillance — unlawful and even worthy of termination.

An Austin resident reunited with his missing set of car keys two weeks after they were lost, all thanks to his library membership.

A center of Jewish life in Central Texas reached a milestone Monday as Shalom Austin celebrated the official grand re-opening of a renovated and expanded Dell Jewish Community Center.

The project will bring major changes to the roadway between Running Water Drive and McKinney Falls Parkway.

An investigation into the origins of the FBI's probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded, with prosecutor John Durham submitting a much-awaited report that found major flaws.

Police said the SWAT team was called out around 12:30 a.m. Police did not say how many people were inside the apartment unit.

Trans Texans and LGBTQ advocates consider the bill one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in this year’s legislative session. It would ban trans people younger than 18 from getting certain transition-related care. Kids already accessing treatments would have to be “weaned off” in a “medically appropriate” manner, the bill says. It also would ban transition-related surgeries, though those are rarely performed on kids.

The Austin Police Department's (APD) new artificial intelligence-powered non-emergency reporting system is getting people's reports ingested into the system more quickly than the old portal, according to Lt. Sheldon Askew.

The Highland Park group of fifth graders took home the national championship for the first time at the end of April. Since winning the title, life has changed for the young archers.

Many City of Austin employees are being asked to return to the office starting later this year, according to a city memo from Interim City Manager Jesús Garza.