To destroy someone’s letters, back in pre-email days, was a mild act of rebellion; to destroy Jane Austen’s letters was to alter literary history. Though the great novelist would surely have ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred in northeast Austin on March 31. According to an arrest affidavit, 20-year-old Eli Eaven Aleman was ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas appellate court has reversed a Travis County judge’s decision to throw out a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against the city of Austin over its ...

Cassandra Austen's 1795 hand-drawn copy of a plate from a 1786 drawing instruction manual Luke Shears / Jane Austen House When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra ...

A court decision has struck down a city of Austin ordinance that decriminalized small amounts of marijuana. The 15th Court of Appeals found that the ordinance is preempted by state law and ...

For a city that’s supposed to care a lot about the arts, it’s always been an oddity that there’s no unified arts department at Austin City Hall. However, as of Feb. 14 of this year ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin’s airport was built to serve 15 million passengers a year, but over the last two years, it has clocked in more than 22 million travelers each year. But a multi-billion ...

AUSTIN (ABJ) — One of Austin’s under-construction skyscrapers has become the tallest building in the city and could be the tallest in Texas in the next few months. The Waterline tower downtown ...

A North Austin mortuary employee is facing felony charges after allegedly experimenting on corpses and fraudulently obtaining death certificates. Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, 50, was charged with one ...

Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property insurance market, local and national politics. She has previously ...