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Downtown Austin leaders call light rail key to advancing affordability, growth
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Later this year, the Austin Transit Partnership will unveil its draft environmental impact statement, a detailed look at all the potential environmental, social and economic impacts of Austin’s upcoming light rail system. The draft EIS is a requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act, applied...
Austin police seek public's help in identifying Family Dollar robbery suspect
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect involved in a robbery at a Family Dollar store on Airport Boulevard. The incident occurred on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at approximately 11:05 a.m. The suspect, described as a white male between...
UT Austin community member's tip leads to seizure of handgun and drugs
AUSTIN, Texas — A vigilant University of Texas community member's report of suspicious activity at Dobie Twenty21 led to the seizure of a handgun and a large quantity of drugs, according to the University of Texas at Austin Police Department (UTPD). One juvenile suspect was taken to the Travis...
Canyon Lake grocery store brings ammunition purchasing to customers’ fingertips
CANYON LAKE, Texas – A typical vending machine is lined with snacks, drinks and different kinds of candy. However, a Lowe’s Market in Canyon Lake has opted to have an ammunition vending machine at its store entrance. The machine created a convenient way to purchase bullets for handguns...
Global tech outage impacts Austin EMS services overnight
AUSTIN, Texas - An Austin-based cybersecurity firm apparently caused a global IT outage which impacted emergency services overnight in Austin. "CrowdStrike is a, let's call it, a very core fundamental tool that protects systems for cybersecurity," Direct Marketing Solutions Chief Information Security Officer and cybersecurity expert David Malicoat said. On...
Expert weighs in on potential 'domino effect' following global tech outage
Following technology outage that impacted flights and businesses worldwide on Friday, KXAN's Avery Travis talks to Kumar Muthuraman, a professor in the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, about the potential impacts and more context.
Texas Music Museum looking for a larger space while dozens of Texas artifacts sit in storage
AUSTIN, Texas — Walking through the halls of the Texas Music Museum, you can see the life’s work of Clay Shorkey and the other founders of the museum. Every single wall is covered with history of Texas musicians and photographs taken by Shorkey. “I’ve always been interested in...
Bidding farewell to a friend
Under the roof of the Spivey Pavilion at Lions Foundation Park was gathered a small circle of relatives and friends to pay tribute to a man who originally hailed from the other side of the world, but lived out the final years of his life in Liberty Hill. Kebede Bekele...
UTPD seizes gun, drugs from 2 juvenile suspects at university housing
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin Police say they seized a handgun and a large number of drugs from two juvenile suspects after reports of suspicious activity at a student housing facility. Police say the reports came from the Dobie Twenty21 university housing and one suspect...
Reporter interview mixup leads to embarassing error
Media Day events can be daunting exercises for any media members. For those who cover Texas Longhorns football, the 2024 SEC Media Days were an especially formidable experience as they had to find their footing in the school’s first year in the conference. For those hosting live shows from the media event, there was a Read more... The post Texas football show has incredibly awkward interview blunder appeared first on Awful Announcing.
How to prepare for retirement
Nearly 20% of people who plan to retire in the next 10 years say they're going to need some help planning their retirement. Finance professor Daniel Roccato at the University of San Diego is here in FOX 7 Austin to give some advice on retirement.
Austin Company’s Global Tech Outage Leaves TRS “Limping a Little Bit”
Today’s global tech outage left TRS “operational but limping a little bit,” TRS Executive Director Brian Guthrie said at the start of this morning’s TRS board meeting. Note: The faulty software update — that sparked global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions — was pushed out overnight by the Austin-based CrowdStrike cybersecurity firm.
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