The Leif Johnson Ford of Austin team is relocating from Koenig Lane after 65 years to open a new dealership in West Austin.

The details: The same ownership and team will run the new location.

Quote of note: “This is a new address, not a new company,” said Jeff Buhl, president of Leif Johnson Ford Group, in a news release. “We built this new home in West Austin for where Austin is headed, and the Johnson family will keep showing up the same way we have for more than 65 years, just from a location built for the future.”

• 9300 W. Hwy. 71, Austin

First Financial Bank is opening a branch near Bee Cave in late October, the company’s first full-service branch in the Austin area.

The overview: The branch will offer commercial and consumer lending, retail and treasury services, mortgage lending, home equity loans and interim loans, and feature a full-service teller lobby, drive-through lanes and a 24-hour ATM.

Bilingual services will also be available at the branch, according to a press release from First Financial Bank.

The details: The bank also has a mortgage loan production office in Bee Cave.

• Opening late October

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.

Check out the latest transportation project updates across the Austin metro.

Austin leaders look to local preparations as air taxis take off in Texas: New mobility options like electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles are now being evaluated for uses from passenger and cargo transportation to emergency response. Local officials are now moving ahead with extensive planning and outreach before the aircraft arrive.

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.