Arts

UT scientist to give free San Antonio talk about Ice Age finds in Texas water caves

Paleontologist John Moretti will give the presentation Saturday at Phil Hardberger Park.

by Anjali Gupta January 2, 2025July 27, 2025

Paleontologist John Moretti will give the presentation Saturday at Phil Hardberger Park.

Arts

Tickets for Saturday’s Texas Longhorns-Aggies game listed for $1 million

Including Ticketmaster fees, the cost for one pair of 50-yard line tickets on the resale market comes to $2.265 million.

by Michael Karlis November 27, 2024August 3, 2025

News

Student activists stopped from delivering pro-Palestine letter to University of Texas president

The students say they face disciplinary action after attempting to deliver the letter to President Jay Hartzell on Wednesday.

by Michael Karlis and Meredith McKelvey October 31, 2024April 10, 2025

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Texas A&M University grads are the most attractive in Texas, study finds

The UT Longhorns were named Texas’ second-most attractive grads, followed by Rice University alumni.

by Michael Karlis July 23, 2024February 11, 2025

Music

Singer and rapper Pitbull to hold free concert in Austin later this month

The concert is in celebration of UT Austin’s admission into the SEC.

by Michael Karlis June 13, 2024May 20, 2025

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Texas’ DEI ban almost ended cultural graduations. Latina students at UT-Austin fought to keep theirs.

Graduating students raised funds and took the lead organizing smaller ceremonies meant to highlight their identities and cultural heritage.

by Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune May 11, 2024February 6, 2025

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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans’ war on DEI is a war on public institutions

The chair of UT’s Mexican American Studies program said those caught up in the layoffs are ‘largely Black and brown, queer and trans folks.’

by Kevin Sanchez May 2, 2024May 19, 2025

News

More pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at UT-Austin

Last week, 57 people were arrested during protests on campus.

by Pooja Salhotra, Ikram Mohamed and Julius Shieh, The Texas Tribune April 29, 2024August 22, 2024

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Campuses across Texas had pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Why did only UT-Austin crack down?

Dozens of people were arrested in Austin, while sit ins and demonstrations elsewhere happened mostly unobstructed. School officials say it’s because campus rules were broken.

by Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune April 28, 2024June 10, 2024

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Texas DPS could pursue criminal investigation into photojournalist arrested at UT-Austin protest

The FOX 7 employee is accused of hitting a trooper with his camera, but the arrested man told reporters he was pushed and didn’t hit any officer.

by William Melhado, The Texas Tribune April 27, 2024May 22, 2024

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Faculty petition to hold no-confidence vote in UT-Austin president after protest response

President Jay Hartzell defended the response but faculty criticized the presence of armed state troopers. Fifty-seven people were arrested.

by Robert Downey, Ikram Mohamed and William Melhado, The Texas Tribune April 25, 2024November 22, 2024

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Police arrest pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin campus

Authorities told students they could face criminal trespass charges if they didn’t disperse. The arrests come amid tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war.

by Sneha Dey and William Melhado, The Texas Tribune April 24, 2024October 3, 2024

News

Texas’ new immigration law is blocked again

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed Senate Bill 4 to go into effect, a federal appeals court let an earlier injunction stand. SB 4 lets Texas police arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border.

by Uriel J. García and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune March 20, 2024December 11, 2024

News

Study names Texas A&M one of the nation’s most cult-like college campuses

Texas A&M ranked fourth on the list, while the University of Texas at Austin came in at No. 22.

by Michael Karlis April 19, 2023April 27, 2025

News

More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices

Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.

by Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune January 14, 2023August 17, 2023

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Texas prisoners launching hunger strike to protest state’s harsh solitary confinement practices

Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the state’s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.

by Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune January 9, 2023April 23, 2025

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Texas drag shows become a right-wing target amid rising extremism

LGBTQ Texans say lawmakers and right-wing figures are misrepresenting what happens at all-ages performances to propagate hate and violence against queer people.

by Trent Brown, The Texas Tribune December 9, 2022March 12, 2024

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Texas energy officials’ proposal to overhaul the power grid is drawing skepticism

In the wake of the deadly 2021 winter storm, the Texas Legislature ordered an overhaul of the state’s power market to prevent future widespread blackouts. But some senators aren’t fans of the main option on the table.

by Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune November 20, 2022January 10, 2025

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Caught between feuding politicians, nonprofits shoulder burden of Texas’ migrant busing program

Texas has transported about 13,000 migrants to New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. But in the absence of communication between the state and those cities, nonprofits are having to pick up the pieces for this mass movement of migrants.

by James Barragán, The Texas Tribune November 7, 2022July 6, 2025

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As abortion access evaporates, many Texans aren’t able to find care, new studies show

Several new studies show that not everyone denied access to abortions in Texas can travel out of state, but more people than ever before are seeking ways to self-manage abortions with medication at home.

by Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune November 2, 2022January 2, 2024