Café Java, a longtime fixture in northwest Austin with locations in Round Rock and now Cedar Park, celebrated 30 years of operation in January.

About the business: The community diner-style restaurant first opened in 1996 near Metric Boulevard in Austin. About a decade later, the Round Rock location opened on Gattis School Road.

The restaurant and coffee shop offers a wide variety of breakfast items served all day, including tacos, pancakes and omelets. In addition to breakfast, the menu includes salads, burgers and specialty coffee beverages.

Lane closures on the Mays Street bridge in Round Rock are underway as the city continues a project addressing movement of the bridge’s retaining walls.

The gist: One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open as city crews move from performing work on the bridge’s retaining walls to roadway improvements on top of the bridge. These improvements include replacing portions of the roadway approach and sidewalks, installing structural elements to lock both sides of the bridge walls together, and completing rail painting.

The project, which City Council approved a $2 million contract for in 2025, is expected to be completed in late spring.

The focus of a national initiative to build climate resilience at the local level in Central Texas will focus on three specific climate hazards, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions announced in February.

What you need to know: The Feb. 18 announcement states that the triple threat of extreme heat, wildfires and flooding in the area will be the focus of the Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator hub in the area. This comes after months of meetings with area leaders, assessment of area disasters and other information gathering.

What they're saying: This accelerator program will be the first through the CCES to include flooding, according the news release.  

"Although the harmful impacts of any of these hazards alone can be very significant, the compounding impacts when they overlap can be devastating," the release states. "Extreme heat can amplify wildfire risk, and heavy rainfall immediately following wildfire can increase erosion and flooding due to soil and vegetation changes."

Check out six upcoming or ongoing transportation projects around the Austin metro.

Upcoming projects
Austin Light Rail
Project: The 10-mile rail system will initially feature 15 stations along the alignment and all-electric trains running every five to 10 minutes throughout most of the day.
Update: Austin Transit Partnership approved a $60 million design-build contract for the first phase of the project Feb. 18.

• Timeline: construction expected to begin in 2027
• Cost: $7.1 billion
• Funding source: federal grants and infrastructure loans, Project Connect revenues, city taxes

• Timeline: 2026-28 (Phase 1A)
• Cost: $30 million (Phase 1A)
• Funding sources: federal funding, city of Leander (Phase 1A)