Submitted report  The Texas Department of Transportation will close the main lanes of Interstate 35 at the Slaughter Creek overpass in Austin to demolish the existing bridge and prepare for replacement,  The closure will run from 11 p.m. until 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights, June 24 and 25. Th...

By Moses Leos III As a commuter who travels to Austin for work on a daily basis, Kyle resident Rafael Marquez quickly saw the upside of working for ride sharing companies Uber and Lyft.  But after Uber and Lyft left Austin after the failure of Proposition 1, Marquez and many others began to seek alt...

By Samantha Smith A new ordinance passed in Austin March 24 delaying timing of criminal background checks could mean a trickle down effect, and possibly a debate, on the feasibility of those rules in Buda and Kyle.  Austin’s new ordinance, called the Fair Chance Ordinance, delays an employer running...

  Staff report UPDATE: Hays CISD has identified the Hays High student who was killed in Tuesday's fatal accident in south Austin as 16-year-old James Otto.  A gofundme account has been created to assist the Otto family with costs associated with the tragedy.  Accrording to the page, $6,090 of a $10,...

By Courtney Griffin of the Austin Monitor Austin’s Environmental Board is giving Austin City Council a clear message: The State Highway 45 Southwest road project should not move forward. At the board’s regular meeting last Wednesday, members passed a motion declaring that they “(did) not support the...

By Andy Sevilla A new Austin law that requires drivers to put the phone down while navigating the city’s roads could affect Hays County commuters. About 70 percent of Buda and Kyle residents drive to the Capital City each day for work, according to officials, and non-compliance with a recently imple...