As 2024 comes to a close, we want to update you on a few significant road and highway projects underway in the Austin area.

AUSTIN, Texas — In East Austin, there is an edible forest garden called Festival Beach Food Forest where anyone can walk around and harvest free produce, nuts, medicinal plant leaves and herbs.

died earlier in December at Baldwin Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area in southern Illinois, and dead waterfowl have been found more recently in northern Illinois, state officials said. The bird deaths ...