BRIEF: Update: Filtration unit causes fire at Hormel annex bui...

Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman Willie Nelson donned an "I Support West VFD" shirt for his 80th birthday benefit concert April 28 at The Backyard in Austin. TODD UNGER The Dallas Morning News WFAA-TV Updated: 13 May 2013 10:20 PM A ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Katherine Noble, a graduating senior in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature for her collection of poems, Like Electrical Fire Across the Silence. Noble is ...

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AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, asked whether volunteer fire department funding should be increased in the wake of the explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, suggested at a press conference that's mostly up to lawmakers. He said he helped get more money ...

Last summer, as city of Austin officials debated whether to annex Circuit of the Americas, Ken Bailey looked out his office window and wondered whether to make a big purchase. Bailey is the chief of Emergency Services District 11, the fire ...

By TIM MAK & AUSTIN WRIGHT | 05/15/13 9:31 AM EDT With Stephanie Gaskell FURLOUGHS UNDER FIRE: Members of Congress are blasting civilian furloughs as yet another example of the devastating impact of sequestration on national defense — and, for ...

A man involved in a wreck this week was charged after officials said they recovered stolen Austin Fire Department equipment from his vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit. Christopher Garcia, 26, is facing felony burglary of a vehicle after ...

-Fire investigators are looking for more information about an IED center last week. Aaron Woolverton, chief investigator for the Austin Fire Department, said Wednesday that an initial analysis indicates the quart-sized device was made with ammonium ...

Colorado Springs Fire Department Hazmat crews clamped a broken gas line that caused the evacuation of dorms at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus Monday morning. Electric department workers from Colorado Springs Utilities hit a ...