Emma Mitts

The $31 million sports campus will open in the spring with a baseball diamond and batting practice area, basketball courts, an esports lab and more.

Corey Braddock, Howard Ray and Jake Towers are challenging Mitts for her West Side council seat.

The North Austin Community Center will be a state-of-the-art sports facility that will bring after-school programs and athletic opportunities to local youth.

Building on community-led plans, the city's transportation department is giving one of North Austin's main economic hubs a makeover.

"They want to promote pretty grass and trees on the corner of Division and Kostner as community benefits?" one neighbor asked.

BUILD Chicago's new facility will have tech space, a commercial kitchen and café, an athletic facility with a basketball gym and a walking track for neighborhood seniors.

Amazon's facility is one of three large projects planned for the long-neglected West Side neighborhood.

Despite incidents of gunfire between rival tow truck drivers and towers listening to scanners to beat police to the scene of a crash, a council committee said it needs more time to consider the crackdown.

Save A Lot representatives did not offer an explanation for why it is closing its Austin location, frustrating elected officials who said the company could have asked for help.

Buddy Bear Car Wash opened in the North Avenue commercial corridor.

A donation drive on Wednesday will collect food and cleaning supplies for neighbors on the South and West sides.