Austin City Council on Thursday approved an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due to ...

More than half of habitable land in Austin is now considered at risk of being damaged in a wildfire. That’s up from just ...

Investigators are still unsure what caused the explosion, but authorities say that at least two dozen homes were damaged ...

Strong winds are pushing smoke and ash from the Crabapple Fire near Fredricksburg east toward Austin, according to the National Weather Service.

The school shooting in Uvalde and the war in Ukraine both provided the company's founders with the idea of responding to active shooters with drones, which are controlled by pilots wearing headsets ...

Saturday afternoon the skies, particularly around South Austin and East Austin, are hazy and smell like smoke. Journalists in the area reported seeing ashes flying around just after 4 p.m. The Austin ...

Elon Musk is asking the state to give him the power to close Boca Chica Beach on SpaceX’s schedule just as rocket launches ...

For years now, Bob Nicks, president of the Austin Firefighters ... trees that thrive in Central Texas, can be used to block fire from encroaching upon a given area. But when conditions are dry ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 11,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Central Texas so far ... are red on the map. The table below ranks all the fires in our area this year from largest to ...

KXAN is keeping track of enrollment data from the Texas Education Agency in 58 school districts and more than 20 open charter ...