Austin PBS CEO Luis Patiño smiles as he leans over a rough wooden desk, the original beer table from Studio 6A when the genre-busting music show was still recorded on the UT campus. “It still smells ...

SB 37 will greatly increase the power of the boards of regents who govern seven university systems in the state. These boards are made up of Republican allies appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott with the ...

One of the most controversial architectural decisions in Austin in recent years has been the demolition of the Austin Convention Center. Critics have said that it has come down too soon, but the ...

Between Austin City Limits Festival weekends, Zilker Park transforms for an intimate musical performance raising money for ...

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Just over a year ago, Altman broke into the clay and sand of Abilene, Texas, to begin building the biggest data center in the ...

Typically, rare earth minerals are mined from open pits in environmentally damaging ways: blasting rocks with explosives, and pumping chemicals into the earth to separate metals, which can cause these ...

Cop show pastiche Police Squad! got canceled after six episodes but had ’em rolling in the aisles as The Naked Gun flicks. It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that Seth MacFarlane has been involved in ...

What I witnessed this morning was the most disturbing government proceeding I’ve ever seen in my 10 years of being a member of Congress and a City Council member,” Greg Casar told the Chronicle Monday ...

Subtract the rock & roll cool from Badlands and you’ve got something akin to She Rides Shotgun, a violent and mournful trip through the Southwest as Nathan drags his daughter into his own quagmire. It ...

Volunteers for the legal advocacy organization Save Our Springs and Austin United PAC’s Save the Soul of Austin campaign have spent the summer collecting petition signatures in an attempt to stop the ...

Laurelin Paige had given up on sleep after her newborn refused to rest. She needed something to fill the quiet hours, a creative project, and began writing a romance novel. When she finished the book, ...