The Austin Daily News - April 29, 2026

In this week's issue: Texas's $10 billion hemp industry just won a temporary courtroom reprieve — but the Friday enforcement deadline is still ticking, and the state's lawyers tried to kick the cameras out Two former Bitcoin mines in West Texas converting to AI data centers with a combined 3.1 gigawatts of planned capacity, and one just delivered its first live data hall to CoreWeave A physical altercation outside Sam's BBQ became East Austin's second six-person shooting in a single weekend — one suspect arrested, zero excuses left Kelly Slater's celebrity wave pool hit $4.6 million in contractor liens and construction has stopped — McConaughey, Tony Hawk, and Drew Brees each dropped $1.25M to get in $51 billion in state property tax relief and Austin homeowners somehow ended up with zero net relief Let's get into it.