Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival returns to Austin this weekend
AUSTIN, Texas — The biggest literary tradition in Texas, which brings thousands to downtown Austin, returns this weekend. The Texas Book Festival is Nov. 16-17.
The event is free and open to the public. Book lovers can head downtown along 11th Street and Congress Avenue, where there will be several programs happening. The festival features more than 250 authors, including New York Times bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Rumaan Alam and Xochitl Gonzalez.
Here’s a list of venues where programs will be held:
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Texas Capitol (1100 Congress Avenue)
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State Theatre (719 Congress Avenue)
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First Baptist Church (901 Trinity Street)
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First United Methodist Church (1201 Lavaca Street)
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Central Presbyterian Church (200 East 8th Street)
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The Contemporary Austin (700 Congress Avenue)
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission (1201 Brazos Street)
The festival include book signings, youth and bilingual programs, a Saturday night Lit Crawl, cooking demonstrations, food trucks and more. While the event is free, there are two ticketed events that have already sold out. They feature Malcolm Gladwell and Matthew McConaughey.
The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The full schedule is available online.
Free parking is available in multiple State Lot parking garages on San Jacinto between 12th and 16th streets.
LEANDER, Texas — Someone is now a multimillionaire after purchasing a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket in Leander.
The Texas Lottery says the winning ticket was purchased at QuikTrip #4165 at 10742 E. Crystal Falls Parkway. It matched all six numbers drawn, 25-37-42-52-65 and Powerball 14.
The $20 million grand prize will be split with another winner in Florida. According to the Multi-State Lottery Association, the ticket sold in Texas is worth approximately $4.5 million before taxes.
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The Texas winner has not come forward to claim their prize; the Texas Lottery says that person has 180 days from the draw date to claim their winnings.
“Saturday delivered a major win for a Texas Lottery player and an exciting moment for our state,” said Courtney Arbour, executive director of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), which oversees the Texas Lottery. “We look forward to congratulating our second Powerball Grand Prize winner in the last eight months when they come forward to claim the prize. Wins like this show the full impact that well-run Texas Lottery games have on players, retailers and our beneficiaries – public education and veterans’ services – across the Lone Star State.”
William “Bill” B. Moriarty, of Austin, Texas, passed away on April 26, 2026, at the age of 73, following an extended battle with cancer. A devoted partner, father, brother, uncle, an…
WIMBERLY, Texas – The names of all five people killed in the Central Texas plane crash late Thursday night have been released.
Plane crash victim names
The latest:
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the names of the five victims in the Wimberly, Texas crash are as follows:
- Justin Appling (pilot)
- Hayden Dillard
- Seren Wilson
- Brooke Skypala
- Stacy Hedrick
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators are on scene and serving as the lead investigative agencies, DPS said in their Saturday release.
What we don’t know:
The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.
Fatal Texas plane crash
The backstory:
Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra says first responders received the call just after 11 p.m. April 30 about an aircraft down in the Wimberley area.
The crash happened in a wooded area in the 200 block of Round Rock Road, near the area of Ledgerock Road and FM 2325, northwest of Wimberley. The NTSB says the crash happened at around 11:03 p.m.
A post-impact fire destroyed the plane, says the NTSB.
According to FlightAware, the plane was on its way to New Braunfels from Amarillo.
The aircraft has been identified as a Cessna 421C that had five people on board. All five are confirmed dead.
A preliminary investigation shows the plane was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of the crash, but there is no indication of a mid-air crash. A second plane traveling in the same area landed safely in New Braunfels.
Flight tracking data shows the plane had a normal takeoff, climbing to 17,400 feet, but just before 11 p.m., something went wrong. The data showed the plane suddenly started dropped, plunging more than 5,000 feet per minute. Within minutes, radar contact was lost.
The Source: Information in this update comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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