Новости за 13.11.2023

The Austin Transit Partnership utilized specialty tech glasses that help track different biometric sensors, including how many steps users take while using mass transit, where their eyes look while accessing bus or rail services as well as their body temperature, heart rate and perspiration. (KXAN Photo/Tim Holcomb)

No injuries were reported after an accident between a train and vehicle in Buda Saturday evening, according to the city.

When Millard Bradford intercepted Quinn Ewers in the first quarter, receivers Jordan Whittington and Xavier Worthy helped make one of the game's most important plays with hustle and determination — directly reflecting the team's current culture.

Ballet Austin's performance will feature Stephen Mills' original choreography and the artistry of 150 dancers, including some Ballet Austin Academy students, officials added.

A new rideshare company guaranteeing more income for drivers is hoping to gain more market share with more stringent security measures, and no surge pricing.

Despite the slight uptick since last year's festivities, AAA Texas officials report these projections still mark a 4% decrease since the last pre-pandemic Thanksgiving in 2019.

The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will very soon start an interim ramp control program that is designed to modernize operations and enhance safety following a string of near misses between aircrafts in the past year.

The State will continue to call witnesses in the murder trial for Kaitlin Armstrong Monday.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched onto the grounds of the Texas State Capitol Sunday afternoon.

Police shared they got a call at about 6:30 a.m. from a ride share driver, who told them a passenger had just leapt from their vehicle while traveling northbound on the toll road. This happened in the 5900 block of 183A, which is close to the Scottsdale exit.

Williamson County residents gathered outside the Williamson County Courthouse Sunday to protest a monument to the Confederacy on the courthouse grounds.

Austin Police said they are investigating a shooting that left one adult dead in far north Austin. One adult was transported to the hospital, according to APD.

Texas is among nearly two dozen states banning transgender care for minors.

Proposed legislation and policymaking surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in Texas schools took center stage in the Texas Legislature's 88th regular session earlier this year.

A new Texas law which opponents feared could ban some drag performances remains tied up in court.

A wave of laws prohibiting transgender athletes from participating with teams in line with their gender identity has swept the country in recent years. Will they stick?

Texas was among the states contributing to book restrictions across the nation, a surge that set a record in 2022 and appears on track to do the same in 2023, according to the American Library Association.

Texas lawmakers sought to create consequences for libraries that hosted drag story times after a 2019 incident in Houston, but LGBTQ+ advocates and performers alike banded together earlier this year to stop these events from ending up in the history books.

How do you cover a story when you’re part of it? For LGBTQ+ journalists at KXAN, the record number of bills filed at the Texas State Capitol in 2023 restricting their community brought concerns – and presented an opportunity.

Houston attorney Neil Giles smiles at the very mention of his twins, both of whom attend the University of Texas at Austin and both of whom identify as non-binary.

This year, legislature that moved through the Texas Senate aimed to make changing gender markers on a birth certificate impossible for trans minors. Activists worry it could be the first step in an effort to make changing a gender marker on a birth certificate impossible for all Texans.

In 2023, Texas lawmakers filed a historic number of bills – 141 in all – impacting the LGBTQ+ community. That legislation accounted for one-fifth of all such state-level measures across the U.S. this year, according to analyses compiled by Human Rights Campaign and Equality Texas. Cross-referencing bills through the Texas Legislature Online, KXAN relied on those advocacy groups’ statistics because the state does not readily track those numbers.

In 2023, a fifth of all state-level bills filed impacting the LGBTQ+ community came from Texas, according to a Human Rights Campaign analysis.

Support continued to pour in for Austin Police Officer Jorge Pastore, who died in the line of duty during a hostage situation Saturday.

Prescott threw for 404 yards and four touchdowns while running for another score Sunday in a 49-17 rout that extended the Cowboys' home winning streak to 12.