Aircraft owners have used numerous evasive tactics to avoid their legal obligation to pay Texas property taxes when planes are used for business purposes. For example, owners may register their ...

Although Central Texas has not been subjected to the numbers of immigration raids and sweeps by Immigration and Customs ...

Although Central Texas has not been subjected to the numbers of immigration raids and sweeps by Immigration and Customs ...

A high-noon rally by a loud crowd of Austinites for Geographic Representation (AGR) pulled no punches in criticizing the Austin City Council for casting a final vote today to put the 8-2-1 plan for ...

This story was updated at 12:45pm August 23, 2025, to add a link to the audio recording of the Appraisal Review Board’s formal hearing of the valuation protest filed by Colorado River Project LLC. The ...

In an old television ad, a man in a grocery store tells two women shoppers, “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.” But the goal of a new documentary is precisely to squeeze Charmin. The tactic is to ...

Leana Mann, chief appraiser of the Travis Central Appraisal District, told the board of directors Thursday that property owners and agents filed 205,000 protests this year, rounding up from the ...

Each member of the Board of Directors of Travis Central Appraisal District takes a sworn oath of office to faithfully execute the duties of their office and do their best to preserve, protect, and ...

The theatre was full at the Austin Film Society cinema last Monday evening as director Steve Mims presented his new documentary project The Magic Hole: An Austin Convention Center Expansion ...

Less than four months after graduating with a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Jose “Chito” Vela took a job in April 2005 as an assistant attorney general. He left that job in ...

Allan McMurtry first got involved in 1977, when the since-relocated Allendale Baptist Church wanted to expand. They began buying up houses around their property and tearing them down, while also ...

Austin’s next city council elections are 21 months away but two incumbents elected in 2022 have wasted no time in building campaign war chests to boost their reelection campaigns in 2026. This early ...