» Read discussion on Lady Bird Lake 07/11/11 The tiny peninsula separating Shoal Creek from Lady Bird Lake narrows with each substantial rainfall. While it's not an issue right now in this drought, city engineers hope to address the problem before it gets any worse.
06/24/11 A man drowned Thursday night at Lady Bird Lake. It happened at Red Bud Isle Park in West Austin.
04/12/11 A part of the hike and bike trail at Lady Bird Lake in Downtown Austin is getting a makeover.
04/12/11 An underground tunnel project designed to reduce Waller Creek flooding could lead to improved bike paths between UT and downtown and a river walk, said city officials. The Waller Creek Tunnel Project is a large, mile-long storm tunnel being built 70 feet under the last mile of Waller Creek, stretching from Waterloo Park to Lady Bird Lake. The tunnel project would regulate flood water in the mile ...
12/14/10 A car dumped in Lady Bird Lake Monday night is being investigated by the Austin Police Department.
11/08/10 More than 100 students gave up sleeping in late on Saturday morning to pull aluminum cans, plastic bags and discarded clothes out of Waller Creek. The Environmental Health and Safety Office and the Texas Natural Science Center came together for the biannual Waller Creek Cleanup. Waller Creek runs from North Austin, through the city and campus, into Lady Bird Lake downtown. Trash from the streets ...
10/29/10 Trash continues to pile up along the shores of Lady Bird Lake as a result of Tropical Storm Hermine that hit the area last month.
10/06/10 kirkh/flickr The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) are hosting two open house meetings to discuss the planned $250 million expansion of MoPac between Lady Bird Lake and Parmer Lane. The expansion would add a tolled "Express Lane" in each direction, pushing the existing lanes outward and shrinking them from 12 feet wide to 11 feet wide ...
09/15/10 Lake Austin, Lady Bird Lake and Austin area creeks remain closed to boats under 40 feet in length until noon Thursday due to a large amount of debris still in the water.
09/08/10 A big clean up is underway at the popular Texas Rowing Center along Lady Bird Lake.
05/13/10 The Board of Regents at the University of Texas turned to the public Thursday for input into the future of the Brackenridge Tract along Lady Bird Lake. UT owns the mile and a half stretch of land and for years has pondered how best to use it. One option is to develop the 345 acres into businesses, offices, and housing for up to 13,000 new residents. Some observers say that UT could earn ...
03/18/10 Music fans are converging on Auditorium Shores Thursday, Friday and Saturday for some free musics. Festival food, arts and craft vendors and of course free music will all be set along the shores of Lady Bird Lake.
02/20/10 Texas claims the top three places among women's crews at its first event of 2010. AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Rowing team started its 2010 racing season with a bang, claiming the top three places at the Fighting Nutria on Saturday at Lady Bird Lake.
02/17/10 A rowing team from the state of Maine made a gruesome discovery Wednesday morning at Lady Bird Lake. A 50 person team from Bates College, located in Lewiston, Maine, was conducting practice drills out on Lady Bird Lake when the coach found a body beneath his coaching barge.
01/31/10 Somewhere in the depths of Austin is one of best-kept secrets of all time. Some say they bury it in a secure spot beneath Lady Bird Lake. Others say they keep it in a secure facility out toward Lake Travis.
11/28/09 THE city's unofficial motto, "Keep Austin Weird," blares from bumper stickers on BMWs and jalopies alike, on T-shirts worn by joggers along Lady Bird Lake and in the windows of independently owned shops and restaurants. It's an exhortation for a city that clings to eccentricity, even in the face of rapid development -- downtown Austin, for one, is being transformed with a fleet of high-rise ...
09/21/09 A popular hike-and-bike trail that surrounds Lady Bird Lake in Austin could be expanded as part of proposed redevelopment
09/20/09 Just west of Deep Eddy Pool, the 10-mile crushed-granite trail that encircles Lady Bird Lake fizzles out, a dead end along the city's most popular running, hiking and biking path.
08/21/09 For the second time in less than a month, a person has drowned in Lady Bird Lake. One man made it to shore, but not without needing EMS help in the ambulance afterwards. Another man in the water at the same time, was rushed to the hospital and died. | 
