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5 days ago | kxan.com | Grace Reader

AUSTIN (KXAN) - In a final scramble to fund park decks over the Texas Department of Transportation's I-35 expansion project, some Austin city council members are combing through possible funding options that wouldn't take away from the city's borrowing power for its proposed comprehensive bond package next year. "We have identified additional funding mechanisms that would allow us to do a 'yes, and' approach," Austin City Council Member Ryan Alter said.

6 days ago | kxan.com | Grace Reader

AUSTIN (KXAN) - As federal grants are eliminated and pandemic-related public health efforts are deemphasized by the Trump administration, Austin Public Health (APH) says it's losing capacity and staff to address infectious disease spread, "specifically in the areas of vaccine education and promotion."It comes at a time when the city is trying to fend off a significant measles outbreak like the one our neighbors in west Texas are seeing.

1 week ago | kxan.com | Grace Reader

AUSTIN (KXAN) - In a public health committee meeting Wednesday, public health leaders gave an update on the spread of measles in our community. According to Janet Pichette, the chief epidemiologist at Austin Public Health (APH), there were more than 900 measles cases reported in the US as of Friday. Of those people, most are younger than 20 and unvaccinated. Texas represents roughly 75% of those nationwide cases, with 702 cases reported as of Tuesday, Pichette said. Two children have died in Texas.

1 week ago | kxan.com | Grace Reader

AUSTIN (KXAN) - City of Austin staff released an updated recommendation for which 'caps and stitches' the city may want to commit funding to. Those highway covers will go over the Texas Department of Transportation's I-35 expansion project near downtown.

1 week ago | kxan.com | Grace Reader

AUSTIN (KXAN) - There are several numbers floating around about how much the city of Austin may need to spend on homelessness: From the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition's estimate that $350 million is needed to build out Austin-Travis County's homelessness response system in the next 10 years, to an even more recent estimate from Austin's Homeless Strategy Office that the city is roughly $100 million short next fiscal year to respond to homelessness the way it hopes to.