During a special called meeting of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, Dr. Robin Engel, a Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University, presented findings from a recent ...

A recent audit of the Austin Police Department’s License Plate Reader (LPR) program found that while the department largely complied with policies during the yearlong pilot, internal audit procedures ...

The city has made some progress in handling discrimination, harassment and retaliation complaints by city employees, but some investigations still fail to follow basic rules for conducting such ...

Planning Commissioners and the public weighed in on planned changes to a West Campus zoning plan during a marathon public comment session on May 13. Conducted as part of a hearing at the Planning ...

The Planning Commission voted 9-1 to postpone a hearing on a proposed development of a three-story, 168-room hotel, to be called “305 W. MLK – Home2” on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, to May 27th, ...

The first meeting of Austin’s long-awaited Community Police Review Commission (CPRC) was marked by urgency and undergirded by a strong sense of duty to a community that has been expecting this meeting ...

At its meeting last week, the Community Development Commission learned about a newly-launched $5 million grant opportunity aimed at combating displacement and promoting economic mobility near Austin’s ...

Austin Water is looking for help in crafting its future, and the future of Austin’s water, and is offering two ways to get involved this month. The first, least-intense option is to take part in a ...