An Austin conference will address issues in health care IT, including healthcare.gov.
Austin business owners are lobbying Congress for immigration reform for high-skilled workers.
Critics are concerned that a new state plan to exclude some high school curriculum tracks from class rankings will hinder students from accessing higher education through the state’s top 10 percent law.
The federal deferred action program, enacted in 2012, has allowed 72,400 undocumented immigrants,many of them students, in Texas to gain temporary legal status.
Local Catholic officials say the pope’s comments on homosexuality aren’t new, but students are taking fresh encouragement from them nonetheless.
The state and school districts have been toughening their policies on educator sexual misconduct, with reporting rates going up in Texas and across the nation.
The new site, OurTown4Teens, is funded with federal funds that require abstinence-only public education.
Texas public schools have geared up and locked down in a variety of ways, including allowing some faculty to carry concealed guns and encircling some schools with security fences.
The early fears about feral hogs around Texas’ State Highway 130 have largely subsided, but concerns about lack of traffic for the toll highway remain.
Syrians at UT find themselves wondering if, after civil war and international diplomacy have run their course, they will have a home to return to.
An Austin gun shop owner led a boycott by gun advocates that spurred Groupon to lift its ban on deals for firearms.
Austin’s heavy drinking culture has heavy public costs in the form of health care costs from alcohol-related accidents and alcohol abuse.
Political observers say student activists could be a potent tool for Democrat Wendy Davis in her race against Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott for governor.
In the aftermath of tragedies like the West, Texas, explosion, blood banks often become overwhelmed by the volume of blood donations.
The continually rocketing Latino population in Texas will bring significant changes to public education. Part of a special report on resegregation in Texas schools.
Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin have yet another difference in policy — the way they notify the campus of a student’s death.
According to student observers, campus areas that had been designated as temporary smoking areas for a transition period that ended more than two months ago still attract a steady flow of smokers.
The proposed legislation is designed to help shark conversation, now threatened by the worldwide demand for shark fin soup.
Many Central Texans want to expose children to guns to teach them safety, while others want to keep them away from guns.
Critics wonder whether public is willing to cruise hundreds of websites
