City, county, state and federal officials broke ground on a $44.5 million Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Round Rock on June 18. 

About the project: As reported by Community Impact in June, Veterans Affairs data shows that Williamson County is home to nearly 40,000 veterans. Despite a growing population, the only Austin-area VA health care clinics are located in Cedar Park and southeast Austin, limiting nearby care options for area veterans.

To help close this gap, the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System is building a $44.5 million VA outpatient clinic in Round Rock. The 63,808-square-foot facility is expected to open in 2027 and provide primary and preventative care, mental health support, and other specialty services.

What's next? The facility is expected to be operational by winter 2027. 

The Tide Cleaners dry cleaner located in the Shops at Greenlawn retail center is set to relocate July 1. 

However, customers won't have to travel far—it will relocate across the street to the Greenlawn Crossing retail center, according to the business. 

What you need to know: The Tide-branded dry cleaner and laundry service announced the relocation to customers via a posting on the business's door. 

About the business: The cleaner offers wash and fold services, dry cleaning, alterations and repairs, and professional cleaning for household items, according to the company. The dry cleaner first opened in its current location at 3200 Greenlawn Blvd., Ste. 100, Round Rock in 2017.

About two weeks shy of the anniversary of deadly flooding that devastated parts of Central Texas last summer, state lawmakers approved a 115-page report chronicling what they deemed “failures” at Camp Mystic, a Christian youth camp where 27 young girls died.

The details: The family running Camp Mystic was not prepared to respond to a disaster in flood-prone Kerr County and did not act quickly enough to save campers’ lives, investigators said during a June 18 hearing at the Capitol.

Investigators Casey Garrett and Michael Massengale told lawmakers about recent interviews with teenage counselors who witnessed the July 4 tragedy, reiterating a key point from hearings earlier this year: all deaths at Camp Mystic could have been prevented if camp leaders had planned ahead and acted more quickly.

"Nobody had any idea what they needed to be doing, and it crippled them," Garrett said.

Looking ahead: Lawmakers adopted the investigative team’s report, which will be shared with legislative leaders as they draft additional policy changes in response to the flood during the 2027 state legislative session.