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"It was the hippie Shangri-La, it truly was. I lived on Enfield Road, but there was Lake Travis and Barton Springs and there was sunshine.

On Friday, April 11, City Manager Marc Ott released the Austin and Travis County "After Action Report" on the Oct. 31, 2013, Halloween flood .

To commemorate National Poetry Month, we've been airing poems by the students of Kealing Middle School' s Blank Page writing program every day this April.

A new Allandale bar will bear an old name: Taco Flats . The original Taco Flats on North Lamar played a key role in the 70's Austin music scene before shuttering.

Austin April 16, 2014 - Break out your running shoes and join Austin's fantastic running community at the city's newest race, the Silicon Labs Sunshine Run, on Sunday April 27th.

Coldplay are to perform at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of a select series of dates to launch the band's forthcoming album Ghost Stories.

It will be a night of firsts for performing arts in Austin, Texas! The First Annual Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards will be held at the Long Center, tonight, April 17 at 7:30pm.

"I think you'll see wide-area, high-bandwidth [smart]watches this year at some point," said Glenn Lurie, president of emerging devices at AT&T, in an interview.

Liquid Austin's Ari Auber has the details tonight's fourth-annual Beerversary at Star Bar: "Deschutes the Abyss, Oskar Blues Maker's Mark Whiskey Barrel-Aged Ten Fidy and Hops and Grain's Volumes of Oak are just three of the 11 beers on draft for Star Bar's "Beerversary."

Call it morning presser syndrome. Although Texas open carry advocates came out in force in response to a recent South by Southwest gun control panel, only a handful congregated outside City Hall for today's Austin launch of Everytown for Gun Safety .

The Austin gelato scene is blowing up , and now the city will be the only North American stop for the Gelato World Tour .

As Austin prepares for its first elections with 10 new geographic districts, KUT is diving deeply into District One, which covers large parts of East Austin.

Two weeks ago we printed a recipe for what possibly could be “First Lady Steak,” requested by Tom in Long Beach.

Recently, when Airbnb announced that Portland was to be its initial 'shared city,' Mayor Charlie Hales scored a huge victory in having Portland become the first city in the world for which Airbnb agreed to remit lodging taxes.

APD says it started at 3:40 a.m. on IH-35 northbound and Woodward Street. The stolen Toyota led police towards North Austin for 20 minutes.

A Dripping Springs man will spend 15 years in federal prison for robbing five banks and one grocery store in 2013.

In the news: Chinatown owner's new outlook on life, cooking; Ramen Tatsu-Ya, In-N-Out eye South Lamar; Clinton loves Maudies After surviving a few recent medical scares, Chinatown owner Ronald Cheng was inspired by his mother, Linda, to open another Chinatown at the original location with a menu influenced by Linda's cooking.

In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate General Greg Abbott, left, talks to supporters in San Antonio.

In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate General Greg Abbott, left, talks to supporters in San Antonio.

The bolts of lightning and claps of thunder didn't just scare people in Austin on Monday.