How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

News, April 27, 2023

What Do You Have to Do to Get Fired at the Texas Veterans Commission?

Allegations of bigotry in Texas Veterans Commission don't seem to be sparking change

News, April 20, 2023

Amarillo Judge’s Ruling Could Lead to Nationwide Ban on Abortion Pills

Supreme Court may be the next step

News, April 13, 2023

Observer Journalists Won’t Go Down Without a Fight

They’re rallying all the support they can get

News, March 30, 2023

Quantifying the Struggle to Live Here

Central Health report lays out local poverty and healthcare access

News, March 8, 2023

The City Forced Their Church's Expensive Demolition

Now the appraisal district wants $100,000

News, Feb. 23, 2023

New County Clerk Takes Over Elections and More From a Local Legend

From Dana to Dyana

News, Feb. 9, 2023

Hot Air Balloon Safety Rule Finally Enacted

New rule was a response to the tragedy that claimed 16 lives in Lockhart

News, Dec. 8, 2022

ACA Open Enrollment: More Options as Dec. 15 Deadline Nears

Prosper Centers have already helped more than 1,000 get insurance

News, Nov. 17, 2022

Little Hope for Expanding Texas Medicaid in the Coming Year

Open enrollment begins

News, Nov. 3, 2022

ACC Reopens Historic Campus Ahead of Bond Election

ACC shows what it can do with less than $50 million

News, Oct. 13, 2022

Courtroom Reprieve for Congress Mobile Home Park

Tenants at the Congress Mobile Home Park have won a temporary restraining order against Congress Corner LLC to postpone their evictions

News, Sept. 15, 2022

Council Finds a Compromise on Renaming Pan Am Park

Pan Am still flying

News, Sept. 8, 2022

For St. Johns Neighbors, It’s Time to Weigh In

Plan for long-awaited development of Home Depot gets refined

News, Sept. 8, 2022

City Hamstrung as Renters Face Crippling Costs

Ever-rising rent

News, Aug. 25, 2022

Uprooted Community at Congress Mobile Home Park Grieves for Neighbor, Neighborhood

Disposable residents in far South Austin

News, Aug. 11, 2022

Neighbors With and Without Homes Collide at Roy Guerrero Park

“But then where?”

News, July 14, 2022

For Escuelita del Alma, History Prepares to Repeat Itself

Preschool and child care center on the move again?

News, June 30, 2022

Looking in at Austin’s Last (Known) Slave Quarters

Black history in hiding

News, June 23, 2022

Austin Desperately Needs Lifeguards but Has Resisted Calls for a Wage Increase

Lifeguards in limbo

News, June 2, 2022

City Ordered to Pay Developer for Historic Montopolis Negro School Property

The high cost of history

News, May 5, 2022

Neighbors of Proposed Fuel Tank Strategize Against Relocation

Southeast Austin residents met in an effort to stop the construction of a new fuel facility

News, April 7, 2022

The Trouble With Tank Farms

East Austinites who saw the health impacts of a tank farm in the 1990s push back against airport proposal

News, March 31, 2022

UT Faculty Say Conservatization of the School Is a Long Time Coming

Another brick in the wall

News, March 10, 2022