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entral Texas top stories for February 17, 2025. As everyday expenses like groceries continue to rise, Hays County Food Bank is trying to help those in need. A construction is underway for an emergency food pantry in Bastrop. Round Rock city leaders are calling for drought-friendly landscaping in new developments. UT’s women’s basketball team beat LSU over the weekend.  

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Central Texas top stories for February 14, 2025. A Texas judge is ordering a New York doctor to stop prescribing abortion pills to people in Texas. Austin ISD is instituting a hiring freeze on March 1st to try to reduce its growing budget shortfall. A new report from the ERCOT suggests there’s more work ahead to bolster the state’s energy system. The Austin City Council is updating its on-street parking rules for the first time in 15 years. The Austin marathon will cause street closures this weekend.

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Central Texas top stories for February 14, 2025. The Austin Independent School District says its projected budget deficit has grown by nearly 20-million-dollars. A Texas judge ruled a New York doctor has to stop providing abortion care to people in Texas via telemedicine. Now it is illegal to park in a bike lane in Austin. Ascension Seton’s annual Austin Marathon takes place this Sunday, expect road closures starting today. 

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Central Texas top stories for February 13, 2025. There’s more affordable housing in Austin than there used to be. How the city of Austin decides to open cold weather shelters. A new childcare facility run by the YMCA is opening in Southeast Austin next month. The Texas Women’s basketball team looks to extend their eight-game winning streak tonight.

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KUT’s Nathan Bernier takes us on a tour around Austin to learn about some of the properties that could be bulldozed to make space for the city’s high-frequency urban rail. 

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Central Texas top stories for February 13, 2025. Around a hundred demonstrators gathered on the UT Austin campus Wednesday afternoon to protest reported sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus. Say so far, City of Austin programs have not been affected by federal and state orders related to freezing grants and loans, but some programs could be affected in the future. Austin City Council might change to mailing parking tickets. A new child care facility is looking to help lower costs in the Austin area. 

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Central Texas top stories for February 12, 2025. The SIMS Foundation is making a comeback. A lunar lander manufactured in the Austin area is making its way to the moon. Bird flu was found in Black Vultures in New Braunfels.

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It’s been four years since a massive winter storm killed hundreds of people and left millions of Texans without power. KUT’s Mose Buchele talks to KUT’s Morning Edition host Jennifer Stayton about season 3 and the role natural gas played in the blackout.

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Central Texas top stories for February 12, 2025. SIMS foundation, an Austin nonprofit that provides low to no-cost mental health care to musicians, say they’re restarting services, but musicians still have questions. A lunar lander manufactured by Firefly in the Austin area is making its way to the moon, now the company is expanding operations in town. Certain brands of cans of tuna have been recalled by Tri-Union Seafoods, in Texas that includes the H-E-B label and Genova. 

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Central Texas top stories for February 11, 2025. The funding UT Austin receives for biomedical research is significantly reduced under a new policy from the National Institutes of Health. The City of Austin is looking at changing its parking rules for the first time in more than 15 years. Propositions to decriminalize marijuana possession in Bastrop and Lockhart are not being honored. Egg prices continue to rise as poultry flocks are affected by avian flu. The Lockhart school board is asking voters to approve a bond to fund the construction of a new middle school.

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