The Austin Daily News - May 13, 2026

In this week's issue: Blue Origin is targeting a 1.3 million square foot aerospace manufacturing campus 25 miles northeast of Austin — $650M+, 2,000 jobs, and it turns Williamson County into the most concentrated aerospace corridor in Texas Austin just agreed to borrow money to pay $35 million for a wrongful conviction case from 1991 — the largest settlement in city history, and the actual killer died in 1999 Waymo recalled 3,791 robotaxis for a flooded-road software defect — and if you read our May 10 puddle story, this is not a coincidence Austin hit homicide number 24 this year, and we're barely into May The city wants $36 million for a broadcasting studio, and the people asking the questions are not impressed Let's get into it.