North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...de sac just west of I-35 that caps the north end of Sam Rayburn Drive between Highway 183 and..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Operation Restore Hope

A new APD approach to distressed neighborhoods was the seed of North Central's Operation Restore Hope

"...three lieutenants were hard at work creating their new command. The 12.69-square-mile area stretches from I-35 west to the..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• APD North Central Area Command Cmdr. Robert Gross – fearless leader..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• As Austin sprawls into the Hill Country, and area enviros start to think more like a region and..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...remote as little progress has been made on the central deadlock: how to cut property taxes, add no new..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Other big-ticket items on today's city council agenda: the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan and the University Neighborhood Overlay;..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

News and happening from Austin and beyond

"...The district representatives working in the Austin Police Department's North Central Area Command have been selected to receive a..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

More Hope Restored

The North Central Area Command hosts another cleanup on Galewood Drive

"...The community-policing gurus in the Austin Police Department's North Central Area Command and their public and private partners..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...yet to vote in a Democratic primary – including Central Texans, most of whom on March 9 get to..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...police, park police, and city marshals into one unified command is up for discussion again, a source tells us...."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Building was headquarters of the teachers association, which was central to Texas' school desegregation struggle, as well as to..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Man Shot in Face

Mental illness possible factor in suspect's behavior

"...William Heilman during an Oct. 31 altercation inside a North Central Austin duplex. According to an affidavit filed by..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Police Monitor: What Brown can do

The process is supposedly still open, but Travis Co. prosecutor Cliff Brown looks like a lock for the Police Monitor job

"...as the "community prosecutor" working with police in the North Central Area Command as a liaison and the go-to..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...causing much trouble and consternation to Beaumont and parts north, but delivering hardly a breeze and no relief to..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...of the Asian gypsy moth in the Oak Hill area. The moth is considered a serious agricultural threat, and..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

Knee-Jerk Reactions

APD Chief Knee announces plans to fix the city's police response time problems and reduce traffic fatalities. But will simply moving cops around work?

"...flexibility for staffing given to each of the city's command areas, Knee said. Furthermore, the success of the new..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Weak at the Knee?

Chief Stan Knee's tenure at the APD has had many external successes, and several internal failures.

"...officers say they expected Knee would be a by-the-book commander who would support his troops, streamline APD operations, and..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Red River Clubs Grapple With Downtown Homelessness

Beggars, hustlers, and dealers make you wonder how Downtown music keeps from going under

"...the walkable music strip. With rental prices in Austin's central business district increasing faster than those citywide, Downtown clubs..."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crime and the City Solution

How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?

"...arrived three minutes later. Closed-circuit video-surveillance footage from the area shows somewhere between 15 and 25 potential witnesses, although..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Army’s Future Is in Austin

Futures Command to set up shop in our fair city

"...Kim Jong-un was on to something. The leader of North Korea shocked Central Texans in 2013 when he put..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...This is only the first domino in the North University, Hyde Park, Eastwoods, Heritage, and Shoal Crest areas...."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column

APD's 'Magnificent 7'

"...a majority of his career patrolling the neighborhoods of North Central, beginning when they were part of the Northwest..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature

Deep in the Heart of West Update: April 22

More ways to help our neighbors in West

"...ways to assist our tiny neighboring town to the north, West, TX, still recovering from the disastrous fertilizer plant..."

April 22, 2013 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The article on the "Magnificent 7" ["North Central Blues," News, May 7] inspired me with what..."

May 14, 2004 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The proposed Triangle Square project that has North Central residents in a furor is scheduled to go..."

April 24, 1998 News Feature

Sxsw

"...30 years he's been fixture on the active Bay Area blues scene. With credentials like these, it's safe to..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Preparing for Takeoff

Plans under way for major redo of Airport Boulevard and Highland Mall

"...– all the way from Lamar Boulevard in the north to the I-35/Mueller area initially and, in the longer..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Worst Is Yet to Come

Austin's Emergency Operations Center

"...(LCRA) to start releasing water from the lakes, flooding areas along lakes Travis and Austin, as well as Town..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature

Grow and Prosper

With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.

"...built in 1889 in what was then the far northern outer skirt of Austin, is still reminiscent of a..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Jesus Is Coming

The video mailed across the state, the Christian film that found an audience in Austin, and other stories of evangelicals using film to spread the word

"...little girl living in a foster home in a North Austin suburb, the child who disrupted the class and..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

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