Two faculty members and three alumni from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National ...

Austin Coalition for Open Discourse says the university’s next president must be committed to the principles of free speech ...

The French bistro is the latest addition to the upscale Thompson Hotel. It brings classic French cooking with a Texas kick ...

Coleen Grant Hardin first met Tennessee Williams. “He was very shy,” says the Austin writer and performer about the great ...

From technology innovators to revenue generators, this year’s regional top young professionals charted their own paths to ...

About 17 Odessa High School students hope to be playing their way to victory at the UIL Mariachi Competition in Seguin Feb. 20-22. The OHS group will perform at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 21. Isaias Pena, a ...

Another season of picking games on The Eagle's 24-mammal Prognosticator Panel ends with saluting the winner and picking the ...

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The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) elected six new members, and presented annual community awards and certificates of appreciation ...

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Elon Musk should stick to cars and rockets. He and President Donald Trump are undermining the constitutional separation of ...

Buddy West Elementary School second grade bilingual teacher Karen Del Rio loves to learn, a fact that was borne out by her ...