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OVERNIGHT: Two killed in fiery crash on I-35 near 51st Street
FORECAST: Chilly Thursday morning, but temperatures to reach 60s this weekend
8 cold places in the world warmer than Austin right now
TRAFFIC ALERT: Icing that closed I-35 service road caused by sprinklers not clouds, police say
JUST IN: 5 residents escape uninjured from Southeast Austin house fire
UPDATE: Williamson man fatally shot woman before killing himself, authorities say
Deputies: Travis County woman confesses to deadly shooting of fiancé
‘I SHOT HIM’: Woman confesses to killing fiance after utility bill fight, deputies say
No injuries reported in early morning East Austin house fire
City, shelters ready for homeless as cold front brings deep freeze
FORECAST: Warmer Friday and Saturday, but bank on a cold New Year’s Eve
FORECAST: Cloudy Thursday with temps in 40s; some sunshine may return Friday
Police seeking shooter after 30-year-old woman slain in East Austin
Water main break closes MLK Jr. Blvd. near Airport Blvd. in East Austin
Police ID 30-year-old woman fatally shot at East Austin apartments
Residents displaced by Christmas apartment fire begin to start over
FORECAST: Watch out for fog, slick roads during commute; rain chances all day
Ex-staffer says Blake Farenthold made her work for campaign on public’s dime, sources tell CNN
TRAVEL UPDATE: Storms slowed flights through Dallas; Austin airport parking filling up
WEATHER WASH-OUT: Austin’s Trail of Lights canceled after Friday rains
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An 18-wheeler slammed into an SUV just before midnight Thursday, killing a man and a woman inside the SUV and causing it to erupt in flames, authorities said. The crash occurred in the northbound lanes in the 5600 block of Interstate 35 North, just past the 51st Street exit. Authorities closed the freeway for five hours before reopening...
Thursday forecast for Austin: The deep freeze is done. While the weather Thursday morning will get off to a chilly start across the Austin area, temperatures in the afternoon will once again warm into the 50s — setting the stage for a warming pattern that is expected to last through the weekend. Things will finally begin to warm...
Central Texas’s deep freeze officially shattered one weather record Wednesday morning as temperatures sank to 15 degrees (or -9 degrees Celsius) at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport just before sunrise. RELATED: Wednesday forecast calls for sunshine, temps to reach 52 While temperatures in Austin stayed in the low 20s...
Icing from Austin’s deep freeze Wednesday morning forced police to close a stretch of the Interstate 35 service road just south of the Ben White Boulevard interchange. But police said the shutdown was not from freezing rain: A nearby business sprinkler system appears to have provided the water for ice to form on the roadway. Austin...
A quick-moving fire consumed a Southeast Austin home late Tuesday night but all five residents — three adults and two children — escaped without injury, authorities said. Austin firefighters rushed to the scene on the 11900 block of Underwood Drive in Mustang Ridge shortly after 10:30 p.m. The fire apparently stemmed from a...
9:58 a.m. update: In a shooting early Wednesday in eastern Williamson County that left two people dead, authorities said it appeared that a man shot and killed a woman before turning the weapon on himself. Authorities identified the couple as 42-year-old Ellen Rachelle DeHart, and 48-year-old Richard Lee DeHart. Williamson County deputies...
A woman confessed to fatally shooting her fiancé at her western Travis County home early Sunday after an argument over an unpaid utility bill, authorities said. Travis County sheriff’s deputies arrested Charity Sunshine Ellis, 48, on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to court documents filed Tuesday. She is being held...
A woman confessed to fatally shooting her fiance at her western Travis County home early Sunday after an argument over an unpaid utility bill, authorities said. Travis County sheriff’s deputies arrested Charity Ellis, 48, on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to court documents filed Tuesday. She is being held...
Austin firefighters quickly knocked down a blaze at a house in far East Austin early Tuesday and no one was injured, authorities said. Crews responded to the fire on the 4000 block of Reeders Drive, in a subdivision in Hornsby Bend east of Texas 130, shortly after 6 a.m. Initials reports said the fire was in a bedroom on the first-floor...
Whenever the forecast turns frigid, the city’s cold weather shelter plan kicks into motion. As the sun sets and temperatures drop, the line of people seeking shelter builds downtown outside the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless. They might stay there, be sent next door to the Salvation Army’s shelter or go to any of the...
Friday forecast for Austin: Enjoy two more days of nice weather before a cold front plunges into the area late Saturday night, bringing a massive new shot of frigid northern air just in time for New Year’s Eve. However, meteorologists at the National Weather Service said their forecasts remained uncertain about the chance for freezing...
Thursday forecast for Austin: The sun will stay mostly hidden behind clouds on Thursday, as temperatures are expected to remain unseasonably cold in the 40s, before gradually warming up to the low 50s on Friday and the mid-60s on Saturday. However, a cold front expected to arrive late Saturday will bring a new mass of bitterly cold...
Austin police on Wednesday were looking for a shooter after finding a 30-year-old woman fatally wounded in the parking lot of an East Austin apartment complex. Police responded to reports of shots ringing out around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday from the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 6600 block of Ed Bluestein Boulevard in Austin&rsquo...
Authorities closed a key stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in East Austin near Airport Boulevard early Wednesday after a water main ruptured, causing a sinkhole to form in the road. The city’s water utility, Austin Water, reported that its crews were on the way to the scene of the 12-inch main break, which occurred between...
2:55 p.m. update: Austin police are still looking for a shooter after a woman was found fatally wounded at an East Austin apartment complex late Tuesday. Investigators continued to piece together clues about the deadly incident but have not shared much information. Among the details that remained unclear were the relationship between the...
Twenty-four hours after a blaze erupted at a Northwest Austin apartment complex for the second time in five years, residents began piecing together the burned and waterlogged remnants of their lives. They carried clothes and computers out of their apartments Tuesday morning as the acrid smell of smoke still hung in the air, shards of shattered...
Tuesday forecast for Austin: Drivers heading out for the first day of post-Christmas shopping and the start of a short work week will face streets slicked by fog and drizzle, as rain chances of 40 percent linger into the night. That will set the pattern of cloudy, wet and cold weather for much of the week as rain chances persist into the...
A former staffer for U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold told the congressional committee investigating the Corpus Christi Republican that the lawmaker made her work on his re-election despite never volunteering for or being paid by the campaign, sources told CNN. Congressional rules bar lawmakers from using public resources to benefit their...
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3:30 p.m. update: Rainy weather has once again prompted Austin officials to cancel the Trail of Lights for Friday night. Organizers issued a statement citing the oversaturated park grounds. “After several inches of rain this week and throughout the afternoon, the saturated park land is no longer absorbing water. Areas critical to the...
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