Round Rock ALS patient Mike Jaillet will sing the national anthem at Boston's Fenway Park next week prior to the Red Sox - Detroit Tigers baseball game.

The "Active Play Project" is bringing colorful additions to playgrounds in ten area elementary schools and giving grownups a new weapon in the war on childhood

Fleeing from political violence in Chile and Mexico, a new Austin family is taking root here, along with their orange tree, and serving up traditional Oaxacan

Margaret Mann, 87, a survivor of the deadly 1953 Waco tornado that killed 114 people, is still haunted by memories of the storm, 59 years later.

A 12-year-old South Austin boy will be honored next month by the Civil War Trust for raising $10,000 for battlefield preservation.

An 8-year-old British bulldog named Piper puts her paintbrush where her mouth is, turning out beautiful paintings to sell for the benefit of dog rescue

Seven year-old Mikaila Ulmer, "Most Creative Recipe" award winner at the 2011 National Lemonade Day Austin event, will be back in the action at this year's

Zach Theatre is staging "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later," a play that updates the story of the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, and

The "Red Swing Project," a guerilla campaign to brighten unused public and private places, was launched here in Austin five years ago. Now, it is adding a

A seven-decade-old school that uses racial and economic diversity to help low-income children has drawn a $100,000 Humana Foundation grant to increase

The popular animatronic LB J is about to be taken apart, moved and re-clothed during work on a  redesigned exhibit space for the entire LBJ Library and Musuem.

The 8-foot privacy fence at Zilker Park has become part of the landscape. And yet, hardly anyone knows that on the other side of the fence is an historic

Texas Department of Transportation crews are preparing a counter attack on bastard cabbage, the invasive weed that is threatening the state's wildflowers,

Downtown Austin's historic Wooldridge Square Park languishes as its supporters argue about how to bring it back to life.

Eleven years after he was selected to create Texas' Tejano Monument, and four years after he began work on the project, South Texas sculptor Armando Hinojosa