Austin promised to take a look at burying power lines. Now what?
The “Undergrounding Feasibility Study” is expected to go before some council members at next month’s Austin Energy Utility ...
Take the LOVE ATX Pledge With Keep Austin Beautiful
The “Love ATX” campaign is designed to enhance Austin’s recycling rates, reduce contamination, and foster a culture of ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...