On Wednesday city officials and residents from the Elm Ridge Apartments held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the complex's new renovations. The 130 low income households will be able to stay in their homes while the 40-year-old apartments undergo repairs.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.

A number of other cities in the US are already "no-kill"...is it Austin's turn? This Thursday Austin City Council members plan to look at ways to make the city a "no-kill" community.

The sentencing phase in the Milton Gobert trial continued Wednesday with Gobert taking the stand.

The new Manor Expressway is on its way. Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority had an official groundbreaking for the first phase of the expressway Wednesday.

An Austin father has pleaded guilty to leaving his 18-month-old boy in the family’s vehicle for more than six hours in the August heat. The father said the he forgot about the boy who died from hyperthermia.
 

Austin Police need the public's help in trying to catch purse snatchers that have been targeting residents at grocery store parking lots all over Austin.

On Tuesday, after being released from the hospital where he was receiving treatment, manslaughter suspect Erick Nuncio-Moreno was taken to jail where posted bond. Police say Nuncio-Moreno was driving a car that crashed into a bus stop killing to women over the weekend.

Auto Maintenance Man in South Austin has been offering what it calls “green oil change service” using oil made from animal fat.

Rasmussen has released the results of a survey it conducted on how people feel about school textbooks. Respondents were asked about who should control what textbooks say, how well they portray history, and what rights parents have in choosing what textbooks their children use.