Austin County News

There are now 14 cases, 9 recovered, 5 active, 0 deaths.  The 13th case resides in the Kenney area and is a health care worker.   The 14th case, a male in his 50s, resides in the Sealy area and is travel related...

This is a cooperative effort between the Texas Military Department, Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas Emergency Medical Task Force, Texas Health and Human Services and Austin County EOC...

THE AUSTIN COUNTY DISTRICT CLERK’S OFFICE WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING PASSPORT APPLICATIONS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY...

Austin County Sheriff’s Office and the Austin County Special Response Team received a donation of 4 Tactical Vests from the Texas Department of Public Safety...

Tri-County ER will be a full Emergency Room, and an extension of BMC, with round-the-clock emergency care physicians and nurses prepared to treat emergencies complete with ancillary services such as lab and imaging on-site...

Austin County Judge Tim Lapham gives an update on the COVID 19 situation in Austin County...

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers investigated Saturday a fatal vehicle collision in Austin County that occurred south of Bellville...

Judge Lapham updates the community about COVID-19...

The Bellville Medical Center’s CEO Juanita Romans and the Medical Director Dr. Don Bosse joined us in studio and via remote interview to explain the services that the Bellville Medical Center has put in place to handle the needs of Austin County in...

Tim Lapham joined us in the Austin County News Online Studio to let the area know that there are now 4 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Austin County. We were also joined via remote interview by Amy Jett, the first person in Austin County to be...

County Judge Tim Lapham took questions from the public in this Q&A session in the Austin County News Online Studio. Questions were submitted to our email address and on the notification on our Facebook Page. Judge Lapham gave information on how many...

Texas Senator Lois Kolkhorst did a remote interview with us to give an update on COVID-19 and the economic impact it is having on Senate District 18 and Texas. She gave great information for local businesses and families who are struggling with the...

Imagine this situation:  An officer knocks on your door, you answer it and he hands you a letter.  When you open it, the first thing that catches your attention is the statement:  You have been sued!  Would you know what to do in this situation? ...

Although the vast majority of Austin’s First Colonists were families (parent and child), at least 68 of the 300 names were single men arriving in partnerships that would allow them more land according to the Empresario’s contract. Originally the...

Austin County is about to lose one of its finest public servants.  Philip Shackelford will be leaving to pursue his career as an assistant professor and extension specialist for Texas A&M University.  Philip recently received his PhD from Texas...

Austin County has its first Miracle League in our community. The Miracle League is a national organization bringing special needs baseball to neighborhoods across the US. Thanks to a partnership between the parents of two special needs boys in our...

We previously published the Austin County Sheriff's Office press release on the runaway problem with the Five Oaks Facility in New Ulm (See HERE for Release).  The facility's representatives then testified before the Austin County Commissioners Court...

On February 17 of this month, the Austin County Sheriff Office released their statement concerning the  Five Oaks Achievement Center in New Ulm (read full press release HERE). Monday's Commissioners Court Meeting at the Courthouse saw a few of the...

Many of the iconic “Old 300” settlers – Stephen F. Austin’s first colonists into Texas – proved to be entertaining frontier folks, and even their background stories are interesting (fact and fiction melted together of course in the Texas Way)...

The preliminary election results of the special election as of 9 PM show Lieghton Schubert as the newly elected Texas House Representative of District 13.  100% of the counties in the district have been reported but, please note that these results...

On February 17, 2015 at 7:40 a.m., Sheriff Brandes reported that Austin County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a report that four residents of the Five Oaks Achievement Center, located at Pechacek Road in New Ulm, had run away from that...