The PGA Tour is returning to Austin with the inaugural Austin Championship at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa on Nov. 9-12.

The tournament will showcase 120 players, marking PGA Tour’s first event in Austin since the 2023 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. The Austin Championship has the potential to return annually, depending on if PGA Tour secures a lead sponsor for the event, according to Ian Helm, tournament director at HNS Sports Group.

The big picture: The PGA Tour is taking over Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa this fall with a reimagined tournament, hosting the Austin Championship as part of the FedExCup Fall series.

The FedExCup Fall series includes eight events that shape each golfer’s eligibility for the 2027 PGA Tour season. The tournament will see 120 players compete for a $6 million prize and 500 FedExCup points.

The University of Texas at Austin unveiled the rebranded UT Dell Medicine, its academic health system anchored by Dell Medical School. The system is primed for a multi-billion dollar expansion with the planned UT Dell Medical Center coming to Northwest Austin.

UT officials said the system combines patient care, research and education capacity, and unveiled its new name and logo on Oct. 27.

The cornerstone medical complex will be situated on 27 acres of the UT Campus for Advanced Research near The Domain. It'll include hundreds of patient beds and focus on cardiovascular, cancer, neurological, transplant and advanced intensive care. Cancer services will be developed and operated through a partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Initial site preparations begin a week after the October UT Dell Medicine ceremony, with the medical center expected to open in 2030.

Indian grocery store chain Patel Brothers opened a new location in Cedar Park.

The details: The company, founded in Chicago more than 50 years ago, now has locations nationwide and is the largest Indian grocery chain in the U.S., according to its website. Patel Brothers specializes in authentic South Asian regional grocery products and spices.

• 11066 Pecan Park Blvd., Ste. 101, Cedar Park

In July, Texas' top elected officials directed most state agencies, appellate courts and public universities to cut spending by 3% in their base budget requests for the next two years.

The overview: Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said those reductions will help Texas hold a "strong fiscal position" by expanding property tax relief and maintaining public education funding when the legislature returns to Austin next year.

The issue: Dozens of agency leaders have warned that the cuts, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, are not sustainable. They would cause Texas residents to lose "essential" services and lead to losses in state revenue, leaders said at the capitol and in budget documents.

Government institutions protesting the budget reductions include the comptroller's office, the attorney general, Texas' Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, state criminal justice agencies and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.