U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it does not plan to build a 30-foot-high wall through Big Bend National Park, opting instead for a broader infrastructure project involving patrol roads, technology, and vehicle barriers despite opposition from local residents and officials.
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Complete temperature records for Camp Mabry, Austin's official reporting site, date back to 1898. Since then, Austin has reached 100° more than 2,000 times....
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KXAN has created charts and graphics to help you keep track of whatever weather 2026 brings.
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Fall arrived this week, and as the leaves start to change, you also may be starting to think about pumpkins and pumpkin picking.
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Despite facing extreme weather challenges like a St. Patrick's Day freeze, floods, and drought, the 2026 Texas grape-growing season resulted in a smaller but high-quality crop....
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With the festival now falling on the first two weekends of October, the weather of year's past has certainly been hit & miss.
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Peanut butter is a spread by definition, but when the word "spread" appears on a peanut butter jar label, it's most likely satisfying a legal requirement rather than acting as a simple descriptor....
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SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, deploying advanced Starlink satellites before flight controllers opted to cut the test flight short....
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On Monday, the board of directors is set to vote on its first system-wide fare increase in more than a decade.
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On this edition of "Inside the Investigation" – an extended discussion first featured in the latest episode of our weekly investigative program, "Cause & Effect" – KXAN’s Arezow Doost and Matt Grant examine the push for stronger hospital safety measures following a deadly Austin ...
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If you drive a car, you've likely found yourself at a stoplight. They're hard to avoid, with roughly 320,000 estimated to be in the U.S. But getting through them is sometimes harder than you may think it should be....
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September will largely finish dry but the start of October is looking much wetter and significantly cooler courtesy of a major weather-maker. -Meteorologist Kristen Currie...
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“He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some, at one point,’” U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue added.
