Since the outbreak of COVID-19, North Austin’s ICU nurses have been working around the clock to handle the increasing number of patients entering intensive care. Every day, these nurses and doctors...
After Hurricane Laura struck, many animal shelters have been overflowed with abandoned animals. Animal shelters such as The Humane Society of The United States, Austin Pets Alive!, The Society for the...
According to documents obtained by the New York Times, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has instructed city and state officials to be ready to potentially distribute a coronavirus vaccine as early...
One of the key strategies outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) for fighting the coronavirus is social distancing. This issue, compounded with others, has made it disproportionately difficult...
Yunoo Kim, Community & World News Editor
• August 29, 2020
The City of Austin is no stranger to homelessness. People huddling under bridges or standing out on roads is a common sight. According to the Austin government’s Homelessness Dashboard, around 4,255...
Hurricane Laura, once named Tropical Storm Laura, has shifted from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. Laura has sustained winds near 150 mph and is traveling northwest at 16 mph. The hurricane...
Protests erupted overnight as Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old African American man, was shot in the back at least seven times on Sunday, August 23. Since then, the shooting has gone viral, sparking outrage...
Three months after admitting to participating in the college admissions cheating scandal, “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin has been sentenced to two months in federal prison, a $150,000 fine, and...
After months of widespread protests over racial injustice and police brutality around the nation, another death has been reported in Lafayette, Louisiana. Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old African American...
In a year hijacked by the coronavirus pandemic, public events and normal routines have been forced to reshape themselves, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention, held August 17-20, was no exception.
The...
Tropical Storm Laura formed on Friday, August 21, hitting the Leeward Islands with thunderstorms, moving west at 17 mph, with sustained winds up to 45 mph. It is the twelfth named storm of the 2020 Atlantic...
Amoli Agarwal, Horizon Editor-in-Chief
• August 7, 2020
As summer comes to a close and the beginning of the fall semester approaches, the final preparations for a reinvented learning experience are unfolding. RRISD recently launched its Reimagining Education...
