Out on the Austin speaking circuit, I often rely on stock speeches. One audience favorite: "20,000 years of Austin history in 20 minutes." The title, at least, never fails to generate a laugh. And ...

An Austin institution preserving old library materials has officially moved into its new space. The Austin History Center, ...

For this installment of 'Jim Duncan's Austin,' we look at three transportation companies: Lake Austin Riverboats, Covert Auto ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The history of Hispanic Latinos in Central Texas was carved in the soil of the farmlands outside Austin at the beginning of the 20th century. Most worked as farmhands, many taking the ...

A look back at Austin’s deadliest tornado, the family it killed and the mystery uncovered in a southwest Austin graveyard.

AUSTIN, Texas — Sunrise, late spring 1922. It's the start of another warm, humid day in May in Austin. From his office on the University of Texas campus, the city's weather observer notes that the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In 2020, protests shook the world after the death of George Floyd. It was those demonstrations and calls to action that led Austinite Talib Abdullahi to bring people together.

Two years after the most high-profile mass shooting in recent Austin, Texas, history, the family of a man killed in the chaos says they still have not found closure or justice thanks to a Soros-backed ...

The Go-Go’s are legendary, synonymous with the 1980s, and the first all-woman band playing their own material to top the ...