Author: Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
The Austin Business Journal has named its annual Healthiest Employers of Central Texas in a ceremony this morning.
Austin has a Batman connection that you may have never known about-and no, it’s not that Ben Affleck was in Dazed and Confused.
Many local pools are past their prime, and the city is working on ways to ensure that Austinites don’t get left out in the heat.
No one tells a story better than those behind the scenes of the music industry, and the Austin American Statesman has a great one for you today.
The controversy around renaming Robert E. Lee Elementary School will soon be put to rest.
Skateboard and BMX fans, prepare to be seriously bummed as ESPN’s X Games will not be returning to Austin next year.
During 2016 we saw some really brutal SXSW fails. Now that it's thankfully over, we can all look back and laugh about the madness.
The city council will vote Thursday on whether to eliminate the criminal conviction question on the initial job application for all Austin businesses.
Sometimes you’ve just got to have tacos. And when you’re an official SXSW artist playing multiple shows, sometimes those tacos have to come to you. Especially if one of those shows is on a boat.
Your online shopping addiction may have gotten a little easier to handle. An Austin company is beta testing a new online price comparison tool.
Austin’s homeless numbers are growing. A recent count by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) showed that Austin has 20% more people living without homes than in 2015.
A familiar Austin face will be showing up on your screens tonight.
Texas’ technology sector continues to experience great growth, as a Computer Technology Industry Association report just revealed, it is #2 in the country for tech jobs, behind California.
Conservatives are making headlines for criticizing liberal Austin, but not for the reasons you may think.
Mere days after being added as defendants in a civil lawsuit stemming from the deadly SXSW crash in 2014, SXSW and Club 1808 (now closed) founders have been removed from the suit, according to Austin Business Journal.
The University of Texas at Austin has good reason to be proud today as the U.S. News and World Report just released its rankings of graduate programs, and UT fared very well.
While they probably could’ve just paid anyone in Austin to tell them this information, a study has officially shown that economic development makes traffic worse.
Dog lovers will soon be able to learn more about all of the things that went into making their canine companions and how to use that information to help keep them healthy, thanks to Austin startup Embark Veterinary Inc, Austin Business Journal reports.
Three Austin restaurants and their chefs have made it to the finals for James Beard Award nominations as announced today, according to Austin Business Journal.
The Austin Chamber of Commerce has come up with a new way to get local high school students to apply for financial aid for college-give them a chance to see First Lady Michelle Obama speak at SXSW, and possibly meet her.
Governor Gregg Abbott wasn’t too big of a fan of some of the things that President Obama had to say during his SXSW keynote last Friday, particularly the part about the state’s culpability in its low voter turnout numbers.
First Lady Michelle Obama is basically turning her SXSW keynote stage into a live version of Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” video, as the festival just announced in a press release that she will be joined onstage by Missy Elliott, Diane Warren, and Sophia Bush, and will be moderated by Queen Latifah.
An Austin-based charitable giving company, Encast, has recently raised $2.2mil in seed funding, which company CEO Leo Ramirez Jr said would go toward product development, according to Austin Business Journal.
