As Drought Persists, Grocery Prices Rise
The cost of groceries in Texas has gone up as a result of drought conditions in Texas and across the country.A survey from the Texas Farmers Bureau finds that the price of a uniform basket of goods for...
View ArticleBill Would Hold Tire Haulers Accountable for Illegal Dumping
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the TCEQ counted six illegal piles of tires in Travis County. In fact, the TCEQ has identified only one pile in Travis County with a...
View ArticlePurple Pipe Goes Burnt Orange as UT Welcomes Reclaimed Water
The normally burnt orange University of Texas campus is looking a little more purple.Today, campus and city officials celebrated the completion of a project that installed purple pipes on campus. The...
View ArticleWhat Will Austin's Stage 3 Water Restrictions Look Like?
No end in sight to the drought, now affecting almost all of Texas. Austin has been under Stage 2 water restrictions since last summer. What do we face from State 3?This week, the U.S. Drought Monitor...
View ArticleHow to Report Smoking Vehicles to the State
If you see a vehicle belching smoke, there’s a way to report it.The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality encourages drivers to report vehicles they see that are emitting dirty smoke for more than...
View Article'Texas Trash-Off' This Weekend
This weekend, Keep Texas Beautiful and the Texas Department of Transportation are joining together for 'Texas Trash-Off', which is Texas's "largest single-day litter cleanup" event.
View ArticleTexas Mayor: Pray for Rain
With the drought getting worse by the day, a Texas mayor is turning to a higher power.He’s asking people to pray for rain.Odessa Mayor David Turner is calling on community and church leaders to make...
View ArticleThis Spring, Texas Wildflowers Could Be Late Bloomers
If you like seeing the wildflowers around Central Texas this spring, get ready for a bigger finish for the season.At the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, they say there’s been a slow start, but...
View ArticlePumping from Lake? Get a Contract
The Lower Colorado River Authority is reminding people who live along the Highland Lakes that you need a contract to pump water from the lakes.The reminder comes at a time when Central Texans are...
View ArticleTexas Nuclear Reactor Resumes Operation
Austin Energy is getting some of its power again from the South Texas Project. STP is a nuclear power source in the Bay City area where one of four reactors was offline for the past few months because...
View ArticleOil Lobbyists Oversee Protection of Threatened Lizard
When Texas promised to protect a threatened lizard in the oil-rich Permian Basin, state officials entrusted the day-to-day oversight to a nonprofit that sounds like an environmental group: the Texas...
View ArticleHays Seeks Alternative Groundwater Sources
Hays County is looking for alternative groundwater supplies. An open Request for Proposals seeks to pipe in water from aquifers that could be tapped to supplement water from the Edwards and Trinity...
View ArticleHurricane Season Begins
Hurricane season officially starts Saturday, June 1, and Texas leaders are calling on Texans to be prepared.Emergency response agencies staged their annual hurricane exercise Friday at Austin-Bergstrom...
View ArticleWhen Will Austin Reach its First Triple Digit Day?
Today marks the anniversary of Austin’s first 100-degree day in 2012, but Austinites have yet to face temperatures in the triple digits this year.If current weather patterns continue, Austin may only...
View ArticleAustin Considers $400 Million, 25 Year Wind Energy Contract Today
Austin Energy is turning to the wind to power the city’s future.Austin City Council members will look at a contract today that increases the amount of renewable energy purchased by Austin Energy to 35...
View ArticleToday's an 'Ozone Action Day'– What You Need to Know
Today is an Ozone Action Day in counties across Central Texas.While ozone can affect everyone, the elderly and young children, as well as people with chronic lung disease, are most sensitive.Texas...
View ArticleGrim Milestone Looms for Lake Travis: A 50 Year Low
Lake Travis could drop to a 50-year low this weekend, possibly falling below 626.1 feet. “When that does occur, that would be the third lowest level ever on record for Lake Travis, and the lowest...
View ArticleNew UT Program Takes the Fight to Invasive Species
Before crushing those pesky fire ants crawling across your porch, did you ever consider the critters’ effect on the ecosystem? The University of Texas’ newly formed Texas Invasive Species program has...
View ArticleHow Do You Relocate 30,000 Austin Honeybees? Very Carefully.
Some 30,000 honeybees are about to find a more suitable home.The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is relocating a massive beehive found in a large oak tree on Highway 183 near Austin-Bergstrom...
View ArticleSeeing Smoke? The Reason Behind Austin's Prescribed Burns
Smoke will be rising in southwest Austin today near Buda. Austin Water is performing a prescribed burn with help from the Austin and Buda Fire Departments.The burn will cover over 600 acres of land...
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