Austin Honor Flight takes eight area vets to memorial

6:50 p.m. update: The gas leak at 11th and San Antonio streets has been stopped, Austin Fire Department officials said Tuesday night. 11th Street will be opening soon, they said, but San Antonio will remain closed between 11th and 12th streets. ...

June 02-- The Austin Public Safety Commission will take a look at initial budget forecasts for Austin's police, fire and EMS departments that show they will seek more money in upcoming budget negotiations. The commission meets at 4 p.m. Monday at ...

AUSTIN Continuing the 's series of statewide meetings to reinforce best practices for ammonium nitrate (AN) storage facilities, Fire Marshal Chris Connealy will be speaking in Paris on July 14, 2014. Attendees will be county officials and first ...

AUSTIN Campaign contributions totalling $350,000 to Attorney General Greg Abbott from the owner of a Conroe compounding pharmacy drew criticism from a government-watchdog group on Friday, at a time when Abbott is involved in two issues with the ...

Days after the city announced that Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr had become the first woman elected to the International Association of Fire Chiefs board of directors, delegates from the labor union representing firefighters across the country voted in ...

Ive been in all canoes. Ive been in water engineering, Ive been in City Hall and the fire department, and all three seem to be involved in this bond issue.- Paul Barker As officials are on the cusp of deciding whether to call a major bond ...

Representatives of local law enforcement, fire departments, EMS, cities and Travis County gathered last week for the eighth annual emergency planning session. The group continued fine tuning a unified plan of action in the event of a large-scale ...

Last year, the city spent $185,000 on an automated wildfire detection camera system from FireWatch USA that was installed on a radio tower atop Mount Larsen in September of 2013. Weve been testing the system ever since, evaluating its ability to ...

Department of Veterans Affairs auditors flagged several Texas facilities, including the Austin Outpatient Clinic, the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center in Temple and facilities in San Antonio, for further review of their scheduling practices on ...