Bexar County Commissioners voted Wednesday to pay a private company to help register more voters despite the threat of a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Meanwhile, Texas Democrats in Congress are calling on the Department of Justice to investigate potential civil rights violations by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Just days before Float Fest was scheduled to be held at the Circuit of the America’s Germania Insurance Amphitheater on Saturday, the event has been canceled. Ticket buyers will be refunded in full.
The festival is known for being a live concert where attendees can listen while floating down the river. In March, organizers moved the floating part of the fest off-site to COTA.
While being called “Float Fest,” the now-canceled music festival was not going to be on the water. Rather, the concert would take place in Austin, with attendees offered a $20 ticket add-on for discounted passes at Texas State Tubes to float the San Marcos River on their own time between Sep. 5 and 15.
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The same festival was canceled in 2019 after it was determined that the event’s planned site in Gonzales was not suitable. (Austin American-Statesman)
Austin police announced they made an arrest in connection to a deadly triple shooting that left two people dead in South Austin on June 26.
A man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison in connection with a deadly crash that happened near the Austin airport back in July, 2022. (KXAN-TV)
One person was taken to the hospital after a crash Wednesday afternoon between two vehicles and a motorcycle in South Austin.
The Austin Fire Department believes a fire at a Northeast Austin apartment on Tuesday was arson.
Three people were injured in the fire at 502 West Longspur Boulevard. Two of them were taken to a local hospital, one person was in critical condition.
About 30 people were displaced by the fire. (Fox7 Austin)
Austin now has license plate readers up and running under a new and updated policy.
Austin’s Homeless Strategy Office has two new programs aimed at breaking down housing barriers for homeless people. (Fox7 Austin)
Daniel Betts is running for Travis County District Attorney in November.
Wednesday, he took a walk through a local homeless encampment on a livestream with Documenting Austin and discussed the pressing issue facing the community.
Austin voters can learn more about the 23 people running for a city council position ahead of the November election at multiple candidate forums in the next month with the first one being held tonight. (KXAN-TV)
A gas leak in Georgetown caused significant delays Wednesday afternoon. (KVUE-TV)
Leander ISD officials are apologizing after the district exposed the medical records of a number of students. (KVUE-TV)
Grand Prairie ISD Superintendent Jorge Arredondo was placed on paid administrative leave just three months after being chosen to lead the district.
The list of finalists for the 2025 Teacher of the Year program has been released and two of them are from the Central Texas area. (KXAN-TV)
Police in Houston say a man has been arrested and charged in the killing and carjacking of a 90-year-old Navy veteran over the weekend.
A 30-year-old man was arrested last Wednesday after allegedly assaulting multiple people with pepper spray and threatening others with a knife at a laundromat in South Austin. (KEYE-TV)
It looks like a couple more days of humid conditions today and tomorrow with only spotty chances for rain before a really nice weekend sets up. Highs will be near 90 this weekend but humidity will be much lower and cooler temperatures overnight will drop into the 60s for the first time since this past spring.
Hurricane experts have been closely watching a slow-moving storm that meandered from the Gulf of Mexico to Texas over the Labor Day weekend. The storm triggered incidents of flash flooding from the central Texas coast to the middle of the state.
That same tropical rainstorm has been trying to organize along the South Texas coast since Tuesday. (AccuWeather)
Salamanders could slow repairs to reopen Barton Springs Pool. (KXAN-TV)
A project aimed at enhancing pedestrian, cyclist and bus mobility along a stretch of downtown Austin is set to wrap construction this fall. (KXAN-TV)
According to a new audit, Austin doesn’t know how many people get hurt in e-scooter crashes. (KUT 90.5)
It looks like a 90-foot-tall mixed-use building is coming to the East Cesar Chavez area despite neighborhood objections. (Austin Monitor)
Kohl’s is apparently looking at Bastrop to open a new store. (Austin Business Journal)
The community of Uvalde, Texas, reacts to yesterday’s deadly Georgia high school shooting.
The Texas Legislature has fully implemented Senate Bill 240 requiring all healthcare facilities to adopt a workplace violence prevention policy and plan. (Daily Texan)
A suspect has been arrested in the murder of a Harris County deputy.
Questions remain over why a set of bleachers collapsed at Boerne’s Kendall County Fair last weekend, injuring multiple people. (Texas Public Radio)
State budget officials said Wednesday that Texas would have to spend tens of billions of dollars to get rid of the state’s property taxes. (Texas Tribune)
New rules have been announced for the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on ABC next week.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, while campaigning for former President Donald Trump, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration for busing migrants to other parts of the country. Minutes later, he bragged about doing the same thing. (NBC News via Yahoo! News)
On the campaign trail today, Kamala Harris travels to Pennsylvania. Donald Trump gives remarks in New York. (NBC News)
“It’s not going to be a close game.”
So says one college football analyst about Saturday’s matchup between #3 Texas and #10 Michigan in Ann Arbor. (Sports Illustrated)
The 2024 NFL season kicks off tonight in Kansas City as the Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens.
Sunday, the Houston Texas begin their season at division rival Indianapolis. The Dallas Cowboys face the Browns in Cleveland. (NFL.com)
The Cowboys are beginning the season with a new motto.
In baseball news, Elvis Andrus will officially retire from baseball with the Texas Rangers tomorrow. (Dallas Morning News)
Another win against the New York Yankees for the Rangers last night in Arlington. Wyatt Langford was the star of the show for the second night in a row as Texas overpowers New York, 10-6. (Yahoo! News)
In Cincinatti, the Houston Astros were pounded by the Reds, 12-5. (Yahoo! Sports)
A visit to the Houston Zoo.
