Tom Miller
KXAN News
Sacramento, CA, United States
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Austin hotel searches increase 10x for this year’s SXSW
With this year’s South By Southwest Festival returning to a full in-person format, searches for Austin hotels on the Hotels.com app have increased tenfold, according to the company. → Read More
How to and should you trim your own trees after the ice storm
People all over Central Texas woke up last weekend with one mission in mind, taking care of the trees they lost during the ice storm. → Read More
Most cats don’t make it out of the Lampasas animal shelter. Now there’s a plan to save more animals
Lampasas Animal Shelter hopes to decrease unnecessary intake and increase adoptions, along with creating more community engagement and rescue partnerships. → Read More
What’s next for Abbott, O’Rourke and their parties after the Texas election?
For perspective on what this means moving forward, we talked with Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. → Read More
Study: Nearsightedness getting worse in children, pandemic at fault
Austin Optometrist Dr. Denise Smith said the stream of young children coming into her office with worried parents is an alarming sign of the times. Her patients have only gotten younger and more frequent with the onset of the pandemic. → Read More
Touring the new Robert De Niro exhibit at the University of Texas
Two Hollywood A-listers will be in Austin this weekend, celebrating the acting career of Robert De Niro, and the University of Texas’ work to preserve artifacts that document it. → Read More
Round Rock ISD superintendent discusses new district police chief, teacher shortages
As the Round Rock Independent School District returns to class Wednesday, Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez is dealing with a new set of challenges unique to this school year. → Read More
Texas A&M developing technology to help farmers know when to water
Technology being developed by Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension aims to answer when to water and how much to use. → Read More
How have other countries responded to mass shootings?
As of 2018, Americans owned 393 million guns, or 1.2 guns per person, according to data gathered by the independent research project Small Arms Survey. Americans own more guns than the combined amount of guns owned by people in the other top 25 countries globally. → Read More
Don’t want to get a college degree? The University of Texas is expanding ‘micro-credential’ programs
Students can obtain these industry-recognized credentials at just a fraction of the cost of a degree. → Read More
Towering buildings further shape north Austin
If the tall towers and soccer stadium don’t catch your eye, maybe it’s the restaurants, shops or soaring home prices in north Austin. → Read More
South Congress gets greener: John Deere opens Austin location
Blacksmith John Deere created a clever steel plow 185 years ago, and now the company launched its first fully autonomous tractor this year. It’s that evolution that has convinced the iconic company with its green machines that it’s not just an agriculture company, it’s a tech company operating in the agriculture industry. → Read More
These Texas companies are pulling out of Russia — Here’s how far they’re going
The Yale list includes more than 600 companies that have pulled out of Russia and gives them letter grades on how far they’ve gone in dissolving their business in the country. → Read More
Study: Austin 2nd most overpriced housing market in US
The study by researchers at Florida Atlantic University looked at housing data from the top 100 housing markets and compared it to historical pricing information. → Read More
Texas State University women under 40 among top income earners
The survey, conducted by steppingblocks.com, ranked universities by region and scored Texas State as the sixth-best in the south. → Read More
AAA: Texas has most hail damage of any state. Here’s what is and isn’t covered
As we enter into severe weather season, AAA Texas said it’s worth remembering that not all insurance covers all weather events. → Read More
Support for Texas-based Ukrainian vodka company swells during war
As people around the United States and Europe began dumping out their Russian vodka following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, a Ukrainian vodka with headquarters in Texas saw a boom. → Read More
Propaganda, fake videos of Ukraine invasion bombard users
WASHINGTON (AP) — The messages, videos and photos flying across Twitter, Facebook and Telegram far outnumber the airstrikes raining down on Ukraine. They claim to show Russian fighter jets being shot down or Ukrainians dodging for cover in their own homes. Some are real, horrifying images of this war. Others had been lurking on the […] → Read More
Study: 3rd-grade class rank dictates first job earnings
The study tracked 3 million students from 1993 to 2008 and tracked how they performed throughout their academic careers and immediately after. → Read More
The state of Austin’s hotel industry
It’s the third-biggest industry in Austin, and it’s struggling. → Read More