The Oklahoma Department of Transportation announced a stretch of interstate highway lanes in the Oklahoma City area will be closed for two nights. Southbound Interstate 35 should be closed at Interstate 44 from 8 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, the department said. It will then close again from 8 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Interstate 35 has been one of the most important transportation topics in Austin for decades. But the focus on traffic relief also comes with a clouded history of displacement and segregation, as this major thoroughfare cut right through the heart of the city and its vibrant communities. As the Texas Department of […]
A multi-vehicle collision with a semi-truck near downtown Austin on Interstate 35 has caused nine people to be sent to the hospital. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said on X, formerly Twitter, that the “major collision” involving 13 people happened just before 11 a.m. in the northbound lane of 1000 S. Interstate 35. The Austin […]
May 5—Three people were injured Friday afternoon after a vehicle reportedly lost control on Interstate 35 and rolled over near Clarks Grove. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Marialena Christine Nugent, 21, of Chanhassen; Nicole K. Cox, 21, off an unknown city in Missouri; and Brianna Alexandria Curry, 21, of an unknown city in Illinois, […]
Editor’s note: City Hall Insider is a roundup of items the Austin City Council is set to vote on other local government news and an inside look at my reporting process. This story will be updated after the Austin City Council votes. Y’all, there has been A LOT going on at city hall these past few weeks […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Rethink 35 and several other Austin organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation over its I-35 Capital Express Central project, which will widen eight miles of the interstate from U.S. 290 East to Ben White Boulevard and SH 71. In addition to the lawsuit, the coalition filed a […]