Austin

This interactive map was created using MLS data provided by the Austin Board of Realtors.  Click on the dots to view the median sales price of Austin homes for each month from Jan, 2008 to April, 2013. 

This interactive map was created using MLS data provided by the Austin Board of Realtors. 

Click on the dots to view the average sales price of Austin homes for each month from January 2008 to April 2013. 

Last year’s Memorial Day weekend saw 191 car crashes, one death and 99 injuries, said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo. 

This year, APD, state police, and nearby counties are collaborating to counter hazardous driving, in an effort to make holiday weekends less destructive on Central Texas roads.

Though Austin’s ban on plastic bags took effect March 1, the conversation about how consumers are coping is still going strong.

Austinites have been sounding off on social media about the benefits and inconveniences of banning plastic bags. One particularly in-depth conflict has erupted on an Austin Reddit thread, asking “How has Austin’s bag ban affected you?”

The City of Austin cooled the idea of creating a board to oversee Austin Energy.

The original idea was to form a board whose members are more knowledgeable than city council members are about the electric utility industry, but after concerns that its members would be insufficiently accountable to voters, the plan changed, leaving the proposed board with less authority.

Today, Mayor Lee Leffingwell said the current proposal would just be adding bureaucracy, making things not more efficient, but less.