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The Bastrop City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to reduce the speed limit on the portion of FM 969 within the city limits.

After Austin Answered reported on proposals to name the Austin airport after Willie Nelson or LBJ, the Bergstrom family responds.

The neighbors of Elon Musks new utopian town appear to have lost patience with the SpaceX and Boring mogul as local authorities have hit Musk with a slew of violations.

Musks business operations in Texas have become a pain point for his neighbors who have environmental concerns about his companies.

Published Wednesday, July 7, 2021 5:03PM EDT Some overnight summer camps in Ontario have ditched their typical operations and are offering vacation rentals instead as they attempt to salvage the season. The province allowed overnight camps to open under strict protocols last week as Ontario moved into the second phase of its reopening plan, but some camp owners say they simply werent given enough time to prepare for their regular summer programing. Sparrow Lake Camp in Severn ...

Dear readers, this is my farewell column as the American-Statesman food writer. On June 1, Ill hang up my apron, stack up the cookbooks and pass on the test kitchen gear to the next person to take on this life-changing position at Austin’s daily newspaper. When I say, “Dear readers,” I mean it. From my first column in 2008 to today, the fine people who read this column — in print with their coffee and via Facebook in the school pickup line — have held an incredibly special place in...

Austin 360 Community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs, have been around for more than 30 years, but when the COVID-19 pandemic started, Central Texas farmers found themselves with CSA waiting lists for the first time. A year later, the February freeze and snow wiped out many farmers winter crops, and they have been scrambling to get the spring season started with less income from farmers markets and wholesale accounts. Many farmers are selling their future crops in the form of a CSA p...