Austin city water crews are now digging deep. They have begun the process of replacing old pipes around town at a whopping cost of $125 million. The project will take five years to complete. More >

The National Weather Service confirms at least two tornadoes touched down in the Dallas area Tuesday. News video showed truck trailers and mobile homes picked up and tossed around like toys. More >

Monday is World Autism Awareness Day, a time to bring awareness to the disease which now affects one in every 88 children. A benefit for children diagnosed with autism takes place in two weeks and will feature music lovers, skaters and gamers.

James Mays spoke to KVUE about the Kids Are Alright Fest. It benefits the Conscious Rider Center for Equine Therapy. The benefit is Saturday, April 14 from noon to 10 p.m. at the Riverbend Student Center at 4214 North Capital of Texas Highway.

Celtics coach Doc Rivers spoke Wednesday about his son Austin’s decision to leave Duke after one season to enter the NBA draft. More >

Office Depot has opened a new sales center in Austin that will bring 200 jobs to town. The facility, the first of its kind for the retailer, employs telephone sales representatives who pitch Office Depot’s services to small- and medium-sized businesses.

Already the retailer has hired 150 workers to staff the facility in North Austin at 9501 Amberglen Blvd.

Austin police have confiscated more than $8 million worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana in three separate cases over the past month — a figure law enforcement officials said was one of the largest in the department’s history even as the city has become a drug hub for Mexican cartels in recent years. More >

Texas Child Protective Services is sending investigators to help with backlogs of cases created by understaffing in offices in Austin and Midland-Odessa areas.

Staff shortages in CPS’ investigative branches have been problems in both regions since the fall, officials said. Even after help from other regions, Travis County still has about 1,000 cases that have gone at least six months without being investigated, and about 500 such cases are in the Midland-Odessa area, CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins told The Dallas Morning News.