The women's and children's apparel brand Hill House Home is launching its third Texas location at Domain Northside in Austin. The storefront is expected to open in early 2027 within a 1,462-square-foot space.

What they offer: The brand is known for selling women's dresses, jackets, pajamas and accessories, alongside bridal-inspired dresses and matching sets. Hill House Home also sells:

• Clothing for children and babies

• Baby accessories

• Bedding and home goods

The context: Domain Northside announced the upcoming opening during its 10th anniversary celebrations. The shopping center is commemorating the anniversary with a photo booth and time-machine installation called The ReDial, which is located between Suitsupply and Vuori.

Austin is replacing the orange cones and barrels on its Living Streets with planters, curb blocks and flexible posts, and it's using the program to test designs for permanent street redesigns, said Matt Macioge, Capital Improvement Program manager for Austin Transportation and Public Works' Community Services Division.

More than 32 streets covering about 24 miles are now in the program, Macioge said.

"We used to literally chase the barrels and cones all over the street," Macioge said.

What's changing: In March, the city began testing four equipment designs on four streets, Macioge said. The most effective were simple layouts that narrow the road, shift traffic from side to side and keep neighborhood entrances open, he said.

Looking ahead: Living Streets now feeds into the city's Shared Streets program, which permanently redesigns streets without sidewalks so people walking, biking and driving can share the road at slow speeds, Macioge said.

The first street to make the transition is in South Austin near South Fifth and West Oltorf streets, according to the city's project page.

Travis County election staff are working through more than 35,000 voter registration records that the Texas Department of Public Safety failed to send to the county, including some submitted nearly a year ago.

What happened: DPS said in a Sept. 24 statement that a third-party vendor whose software handles the daily batch files to the state updated its software in October 2025, cutting off parts of some records and leaving the state unable to process them.

What voters should know: Registrations count from the day of the DPS transaction, so anyone who registered through DPS on or before Oct. 5 is eligible for the November election even if the county processes the record later, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Anyone missing from the rolls after registering online through DPS can still vote a provisional ballot, which officials will count once they confirm the DPS transaction, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Voters can check their status at votetexas.gov or with Travis County.

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Georgetown to reduce rideGTX operation hours, increase base cost: RideGTX, the city of Georgetown's ride voucher service, will soon eliminate overnight hours and increase its base price to combat rising costs. Once the changes go into effect, rideGTX will operate from 6 a.m. to midnight and cost a base fee of $5.

TxDOT, Mobility Authority seek public input on 290 Toll extension into Bastrop County: The two agencies are accepting comments on proposed improvements to about 15 miles of Hwy. 290 until Oct. 30. The entities are evaluating the feasibility of extending tolled main lanes alongside existing nontolled lanes, adding signalized intersections, and enhancing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.