It’s another La Niña year, which means Texans are having a warmer and drier winter than normal. But warmer temperatures don’t necessarily mean that we’ll get through the season without seeing a winter ...

Ty Hurless has been playing Tom Petty in the Damn Torpedoes for 15 years. A natural brunette, he wore his hair short for much of his original musical career. Now, though, it sits just above shoulder ...

Fisherman’s memorials in three Texas coastal communities honor the commercial sailors who put seafood on our tables. Harvesting the bounty of the Gulf of Mexico is a dangerous job. According to the ...

The Travis County District Attorney’s Office has dismissed the case of yet another person that judges say was wrongfully convicted of a major crime in Austin in the early 2000s. Marshall Moreno was ...

Officially this issue is supposed to be dated for December 26, which is known as Boxing Day in the UK and other British Commonwealth countries. If you felt a quick surge of adrenaline at the thought ...

The city of Austin and its firefighters signed a new labor contract on Thursday, Dec. 18. The four-year, $63 million agreement approved by City Council and the Austin Firefighters Association ...

Back in the early days of the COVID pandemic, the courthouses closed. Court hearings were suddenly being held over Zoom, a service plenty of people still didn’t know how to use, if they even had a ...

I’m not convinced that anyone is going into 2026 with high expectations (pun intended). Let’s be honest with ourselves; the Roman calendar doesn’t really set us up for success when it comes to New ...

So, we’ve reached the week or so between holidays where nothing counts. From Dec. 26 onward to the 31st, all bets are off and whatever bad habit you’ve staved off all year is allowed respite because, ...

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Ground Floor Theatre’s Falsettos Technically a 2024 show, but it happened right after last year’s Top 10s issue, and it sure deserves a spot at the top. This show earned the unique honor of making me ...

Mapping Chaos Six months into his second term as president, Donald Trump was nervous about the chances for keeping a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 elections.