Mike Harmon named Cedar Park Chief of Police
Cedar Park Interim Chief Mike Harmon has officially been named Wednesday the new Cedar Park Chief of Police.Harmon, who has been with the department since 1998, was previously the Assistant Police …
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Cedar Park Council set to recognize outgoing Council members, adopt voter-approved amendments, add funds for land purchases
The Cedar Park City Council will host a reception honoring outgoing Council members and welcoming the …
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Confidence grows that COVID-19 vaccines hold their own against variants
Confidence is growing that COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. are holding their own against …
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Analysis: Judge legislators by what gets their attention — and their neglect
When this legislative session comes to an end on Memorial Day, Texas will still have more uninsured …
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Powell dashboard shows wider disparities as job growth slows
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he wants to see a recovery that reaches all corners of the labor …
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Biden rides high in polls as Americans back his handling of pandemic
President Joe Biden is riding a wave of approval as Americans overwhelmingly back his handling of …
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Colonial Pipeline restarts 5 days after after cyberattack
The largest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. is returning to service, recovering from a cyberattack …
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Texas duo top list of House appropriations earmark requests
Two Dallas-area House lawmakers — one Republican, one Democrat — top the list of total earmark …
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CDC panel recommends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children as young as 12
Children as young as 12 should receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to protect them from …
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Cedar Park Council approves Town Center development agreement; Town Center Park improvements planned
Two restaurants and an office building along with a new trailhead and a second sculpture garden for Town Center Park will be coming to Cedar Park's Town Center neighborhood under the new economic …
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ANALYSIS: Wilco, Travis County split of far-west Leander decided the mayoral race; big-money donations faces defeat in recent elections
The Travis County versus Williamson County split of far-west Leander determined the 2021 Leander mayoral …
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Leander and Cedar Park public libraries set summer events
The Leander and Cedar Park public libraries will launch their annual summer reading programs beginning …
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Vista Ridge student wins Congressional art competition
Mehak Gaba from Vista Ridge High School won the 2021 Texas District 31 Art Competition sponsored by ...
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Leander Council to hold public hearing on Transportation Master Plan, discuss budget priorities
The Leander City Council will hold a public hearing Thursday to review and potentially accept the …
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Austin's camping ban returns Tuesday, but it's not clear when — or how — it will be enforced
After Austin voters decided to force the city to end its policy of allowing encampments in some …
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Parents hold students out on 'S.I.C.K. day' to pressure Leander ISD to review more book club titles
A series of books on a high school book club's optional reading list has spawned online protests …
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Tensions boil at UT-Austin over "The Eyes of Texas", where students are refusing to work and a man with a gun crashed a virtual event
Dozens of students at the University of Texas at Austin who give campus tours to prospective …
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Wilco animal shelter has weekend hours
April showers have brought May flowers and, with those, new business hours for the Williamson …
Inflation brews for US producers while services wages pick up
Inflation continues to brew in America’s industrial heartland as growing materials shortages cascade into record-long delivery times and leave manufacturers struggling to keep pace with an …
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Biden struggles to respond to Jerusalem clashes after Trump refused to criticize Israel
After four years of former President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn or even mildly critique any …
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In slide toward all-out combat, Israel and Gaza militants trade blows, bombardment
Intensifying violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip threatened Tuesday to tip into outright warfare as …
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Senate panel deadlocks on Democratic elections overhaul bill
A Senate panel deadlocked on a Democratic bill to set federal standards on voting access, with Senate GOP …
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Liz Cheney says Trump and supporters ‘at war with Constitution’
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said former President Donald Trump and his loyalists are undermining democracy …
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Hackers find easy prey as US ignores one warning after another
The ransomware attack that shut down the nation’s biggest fuel pipeline prompted an all-too …
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Job openings in US surge to a record high 8.12 million
U.S. job openings surged in March to a record high, underscoring the rapid increase in labor demand …
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Ahead of first Biden-McConnell meeting, a long history with low expectations
President Joe Biden insists he can work from a clean slate with Mitch McConnell when they convene …
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Schumer, McConnell face off over elections overhaul bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and GOP leader Mitch McConnell made rare appearances at a …
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Judge rejects NRA’s Texas bankruptcy bid as attempt to avoid NY attorney general oversight
NEW YORK — A judge rejected the National Rifle Association’s bid Tuesday to file for bankruptcy in Texas, ruling that the audacious move was …
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As pollen torments millions, it might be getting worse, and it’s poorly measured in America
He found masses of pollen as thick as “oatmeal,” and once discovered that grains from palm trees had ridden the winds for hundreds of miles …
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot cleared for adolescents in US
WASHINGTON — Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine was cleared for use in children age 12 to 15 in the U.S., paving the way for the …
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Ossoff introduces bill to roll back Georgia law on giving voters water
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced a bill Monday to prohibit states like Georgia from banning volunteers from distributing food and …
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Biden says Russia has ‘some responsibility’ in Colonial pipeline attack
President Joe Biden said Russia has “some responsibility” to address a ransomware attack that crippled the Colonial fuel pipeline and that …
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Texas public schools couldn’t require critical race theory lessons under bill given initial House approval
The Texas House has given preliminary approval to legislation that takes aim at critical race theory and would limit what public school students …
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Resuming in-person learning at Texas schools last fall accelerated spread of COVID-19, study says
When Texas schools returned to in-person education last fall, the spread of the coronavirus “gradually but substantially …
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Democrat revives Texas bill restricting transgender students' sports participation in apparent act of retaliation against his party
Democratic state Rep. Harold Dutton on Friday revived and helped advance a bill that would restrict transgender students from participating in …
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GOP lawmakers want to ban "woke philosophies" like critical race theory in Texas schools
Mirroring moves by other red-state legislatures across the country, Texas Republicans are attempting to reach into classrooms and limit what …
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Texas Senate bill restricting transgender students’ sports participation stalls in House committee, casting doubts on its fate
A bill that would prevent transgender Texas children from joining school sports teams that match their gender identity failed to advance out of …
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Texas releases $11 billion of $18 billion in federal stimulus money for public schools
Texas’s top state leaders announced Wednesday they are releasing $11.2 billion out of nearly $18 billion available in federal pandemic …
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'It's like a war,' restaurateur says of struggle to find workers
What if all of the country's restaurants reopened their doors following a year-long pandemic that forced massive layoffs and hardly anyone showed up? To work. It's more than a …
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Google selling users’ personal data despite promise, federal court lawsuit claims
Google is making a fortune by selling users’ personal information despite the company’s …
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Employers, governors push myth that unemployment checks keep lazy workers home
In a rational world, employers desperate to fill jobs would do everything they could to make their …
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Why April’s disappointing jobs report may not be so bad for Biden
In a stunning surprise for forecasters, U.S. employers added only 266,000 new jobs in April, far below …
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Kashkari has ‘zero sympathy’ for Wall Street critics of Fed
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said he has “zero sympathy” for …
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In hugely disappointing report, job growth slows sharply and unemployment rises
In an unexpectedly weak employment report, job growth in the U.S. slowed sharply in April as the …
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Lumber prices are sky high — Here’s what it means for homeowners and homebuyers
Home prices are soaring, pushed higher by a combination of record-low mortgage rates, strong demand …
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Companies warn of US labor shortages economists call temporary
As the U.S. job market comes roaring back, there’s a growing debate about whether there are …
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5 sure-fire signs of a stock market bubble
It seems like the stock market is hitting all-time highs just about every week in 2021. And it’s …
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$200 to be a member at Best Buy? Retailer launches membership pilot program in Twin Cities
Best Buy has started to offer $200 yearly memberships to customers in the Twin Cities in return for benefits such as free or discounted Geek …
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Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best carrier in pandemic-stricken 2020, study says
Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best air carrier in 2020, a year when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the way people travel and forced …
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Major corporations come out against proposed voting restrictions in Texas
With less than a month left in the legislative session — and Texas Republicans split on which package of proposals might cross the finish line …
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