Austin Reaves scored a career-high 38 points, LeBron James had 29 and the Los Angeles Lakers held on to beat the Brooklyn Nets 102-101.

Russell moved to the bench, Reaves becoming the primary ballhandler. And a trade with Brooklyn in December cemented it — the Lakers had cemented it. Reaves was going to be their guy. At halftime ...

Elon Musk is reshaping Austin with ambitious projects like Tesla’s Gigafactory, The Boring Company’s Hyperloop Plaza, and the futuristic city of Snailbrook. Learn how these developments could redefine technology and urban living.

According to data from Zillow, average rents in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro now outpace those in Austin for the first time since at least 2015.

Austin rents skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic as tens of thousands of new residents flocked there and the region’s job market boomed.

The meeting will be the first for the three new Council members in districts 6, 7, and 10 (Krista Laine, Mike Siegel and Marc Duchen, respectively) and the first meeting of Mayor Kirk Watson’s first full term. And the fully Democratic Council will begin its work at a time of Republican dominance at the state and federal levels of government.

"To take on a business like this feels ... like the sky's the limit because nobody really has an expectation for what we're going to do," one of the new owners said.

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Like NFL fans awaiting Super Bowl Sunday, lovers of world-class barbecue are likely on the edge of the seat with anticipation for one of the annual highlights of the South Florida cookout season — Tropical Smokehouse's "Smoke and Sunshine: A Craft Barbecue Meat Up."

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

No. 1-ranked recruit Aaliyah Chavez among many from the Lone Star State in the running to go to New York for prestigious all-star game

Mex, which was founded in Austin in 1977, has closed its final location, though the company teased that it's not the end of the restaurant.