Onion Creek News

Austin is a beautiful place. From the downtown skyline to the greenbelts all around the city, there is always a stunning sight to be seen.

The Blanco Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with the Old Blanco County Courthouse Society, Keep Blanco Beautiful, local merchants, and lavender growers to encourage residents and visitors to "celebrate a hometown Christmas," starting on Friday, November 27, and continuing throughout the holiday season at the Blanco Courthouse Square.

T he Inn Above Onion Creek is a beautiful retreat from the bustle of the everyday world.

Texas Memorial Museum This small museum on the campus of the University of Texas, built in the 1930s, is now exclusively a natural history museum , featuring displays on evolution, Texas wildlife, and vertebrate paleontology.

There might be other places in the world where the environs offer a treasure trove of culinary destinations, but aren't we lucky that the Texas Hill Country looms just beyond our doorstep? To experience the sumptuous variety scattered around the lush countryside only requires choosing a direction, then taking a scenic ride down the road.

This place has a funky atmosphere -- try Austin with a twist -- great bar and down-to-earth food.

The first phase of the Onion Creek greenway project will include turning the flood-prone Timber Creek neighborhood into a park.

Heavy rain pounded the city of Wimberly early Wednesday morning causing several low water crossings to flood.

Rhymesayer Thurogood Wordsmith, reggae men Brown Pilot and New Orleans' Truth Universal join host Mic Skills and DJ Urban Legend at the Mink's monthly Mission Control.

Fore, please. Now driving: Kevin Robbins, who takes dead aim at the Austin golf scene and the topography of the game throughout Texas.

All southbound lanes of Interstate 35 are shut down in the 13200 block, near Onion Creek just north of Buda because of a collision.

RM 2244 : Reduced to one eastbound lane between Loop 360 and Redbud Trail from 8 p.m. today until 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Interstate 35: Reduced to one southbound lane between William Cannon Drive and Onion Creek from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight through Thursday night.

Interstate 35: Reduced to one southbound lane between William Cannon Drive and Onion Creek from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight through Thursday night.

Fore, please. Now driving: Kevin Robbins, who takes dead aim at the Austin golf scene and the topography of the game throughout Texas.

Constable Matt Mancillas and the Precinct 5 Office hosted a spaghetti luncheon at the Onion Creek Senior Citizens Center in Buda.

Fire fighters are battling a 1-alarm fire in southern Travis County when they received a call shortly after 9:30 p.m. Officials tell KEYE TV a call came in of a building on fire at FM-1327 and FM-1625, thata s northwest of Mustang Ridge and southeast of Onion Creek.

State Rep. Kino Flores, a South Texas Democrat, was indicted Friday, accused of omitting hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of income from financial statements that elected officials are required to file with the state.

Firefighters quickly got the upper hand on a brush fire Wednesday morning in Southeast Austin.

Damian Mandola Restaurateur's poodle was killed by other dogs. FAMILY PHOTO Jeff and Patty Maddux say they discovered their three Swiss mountain dogs dead on their neighbor's Hays County property last week.