Judges impose bail on criminal defendants released from jail to ensure they will attend future court dates. Sen. Joan Huffman, author of Senate Joint Resolution 5, hopes to change this system, making ...

The Boyt-Maxwell family still owns the lighthouse and chartered a nonprofit to raise $2.5 million and oversee its preservation. The Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation has already repainted the tower ...

Maybe a 5-cent tax increase was always the number the City Council was going to land on. At any rate, that’s the number that Council members seemed ready to approve on Wednesday, as the Chronicle went ...

Did your wife used to work for the CIA? She seems to be well-trained in psychological warfare ... and you seem to be losing the battle. Look, far be it from me to portray your wife as some sort of war ...

Texans have their eyes on a dramatic special session at the moment, but many new laws that passed during the regular session will take effect September 1. This week and next, the Chronicle is rounding ...

Under the simple slogan “ Save Our Signs ,” this group of librarians and public historians would like us all to help protect ...

Halloween Town comes to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as it opens its gates for a special new yuletide event with ...

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As the physical realities of fabled characters, scrambling over each other to share a single mitten in the cold, feel comically and despairingly at hand, Emily Hunt Kivel’s debut novel, Dwelling, ...

Burr! It’s cold in here! There must be some frozen cocktails in the atmosphere – again! For the second year, carmine cocktail brand Campari presents a whole week of chilly sippables at bars all over ...

If you entered a courtroom in Travis County for an initial bail hearing early last year, chances are it seemed like a one-on-one between an inmate and a judge. Today, defense attorneys and prosecutors ...

Amid a slew of autonomous vehicles descending into Austin, the city government still has no role in regulating or permitting ...