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CEDAR PARK, Texas — Residents have been asked to avoid the area after "multiple" Cedar Park police officers were shot on Sunday afternoon. The Cedar Park Police Department said the officers were shot at while responding to a house call at a home off Natalie Cove. Police said the subject is barricaded inside and multiple law enforcement agencies are on the scene. It remains an active situation, police said.

Area residents who use the 183A toll road will likely see new tolls heading northbound to Liberty Hill and southbound into Austin in the coming years. The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, operator of the 183A toll road, is looking to extend 183A for 6 miles to the north from the current end of the toll segment in Leander to just north of S.H. 29 in Liberty Hill. CTRMA also seeks to widen the existing U.S. 183 south of S.H. 45 near Lakeline Mall down to the Arboretum area in Northwest Austin, adding a pair of variable toll ‘express lanes’...

Circuit board manufacturing company Corvalent Corp. has completed its relocation from Silicon Valley to Silicon Hills. Corvalent, previously based in San Jose, Calif., has opened its new 24,000-square-foot headquarters in Cedar Park.The 16-year-old company announced its plans to move to Central Texas last year after selecting Cedar Park from a field of four prospective cities. According to Corvalent, about 20 people are moving with the company to the area. Corvalent plans to fill another 30 jobs within the next two years. “Central Texas provides some of the best fundamentals for conducting business in the United States, offering one of the...

Taylor used to be a player in Williamson County, with it and Georgetown vying for funds and the attention of passers-through. But no more, and despite what many city officials will tell you, it will not be a player unless something is done to counteract the rapid growth of surrounding communities. What needs to be done is, Taylor needs to forget its past and embrace something residents see as so vile, that when I first arrived here I thought its mere mention was a dirty word. I am speaking of Rick Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor. The Texas Department of Transportation (another...

A local Austin radio station is reporting about a suburb that chose to officially recognize today not as "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday" but as "Civil Right Day". This is the middle-class City of Cedar Park, northwest of Austin. The former mayor, who is black, condemns the decision saying it is a "slap in the face" to the memory of Dr. King. The radio station did not offer any quotes from people who supported the more inclusive holiday title.

Population figures show Sweetwater slipping fast BY JOHN REYNOLDS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Alongside its reputation as the rattlesnake capital of the world, Sweetwater has earned another, albeit unwanted, title: fastest shrinking city in Texas. 10 fastest growing cities Statistics from the Census Bureau's city-by-city population estimates for July 1, 2002, released Thursday. The estimates were considered accurate only for cities with populations of 10,000 or greater. City 2001 (est.) 2002 (est.) Percent Change Leander 9,646 11,661 20.9 Cedar Park 32,325 37,764 16.8 McKinney 63,198 73,081 15.6 Frisco 41,882 47,652 13.8 Allen 51,303 57,216 11.5 Rockwall 20,103 22,334 11.1 Sachse 11,761 13,015 10.7...