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State appeals court strikes down Austin’s marijuana decriminalization ordinance
A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that the city of Austin cannot enforce its law that prohibits police from citing and arresting people for carrying a small amount of marijuana.
Austin city council approves guidelines for using artificial intelligence
Austin city council voted to move forward with guidelines for how the city of Austin will use artificial intelligence (AI).
‘More facts are better than fewer’: Cardiac expert will weigh in on former alderman’s fitness for trial
A federal judge Wednesday said he was likely to grant a motion to sever former Alderman Carrie Austin’s corruption case from ...
Anticipation builds for new Costco store despite traffic increases along Kanner Highway
About 33,500 vehicles per day pass along Kanner Highway in front of the Costco development, according to FDOT, and that's ...
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Former Austin Mayor Carole Keeton dies at 85: 'One tough grandma'
Carole Keeton, who went from being a 37-year-old mayor of Austin as a single mother of four boys to the "one tough grandma" in charge of Texas' finances a generation later, was remembered as a ...
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Inside Tallahassee commissioners' email boxes: An avalanche of notes on possible TMH sale
From community heavy hitters to average Joes, residents did not hold back their feelings in missives to Mayor John Dailey ...
Leslie Odom Jr. back to ‘Hamilton,' Ari Aster's ‘Eddington' trailer, ‘Revenge of the Sith' 20th anniversary, and more of today's top stories
Gold Derby's top news stories for April 14, 2025. Leslie Odom Jr. is going back to Hamilton. You've been waiting for it, and ...