Author: Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
Austin entrepreneurs have created an app that will help people participate in the democratic process by register to vote on their phones. Think Voting partnered with Voto Latino to create Voter Pal.
Scott Hardy is our new hero. KEYE caught up with Hardy as he was handing out flowers to drivers stuck in traffic.
The extreme growth that Austin has undergone over the past decade can now count one of the Hill Country’s most famous green spaces as a victim.
SXSW 2016 was certainly one for the books, what with the President dropping by for tacos and such. Let's recap our favorite moments from the festival.
If you’re looking for a moving story this Monday, Fox 7’s got one for you. Austin musician/actor John Pointer recently had a social media post go viral, and it all came from his love for his four-legged friend, Benny.
Starbucks announced this week that it will be phasing in a new food donation program.
The City of Austin ranked highest of all government services on Forbes’ 2016 Best Employers List, released today. It also ranked higher than any other Austin-based businesses.
Are you all about Alamo Drafthouse? Crazy about Cuvee Coffee? Can’t imagine life without Birds Barbershop? Now is your chance to tell your favorite local businesses how you really feel about them.
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.
