The parents of a special needs elementary school student have battled for years with Carroll ISD over how to best provide their son the education he legally deserves.
For years, the Dallas Police Department has been short a few hundred officers. A new, big money incentive program could help put a dent in the shortage.
Rep. Joe Moody says cannabis penalty reduction bill would be a good investment for Texas. And some say it has a real shot at passing.
Senate Bill 2 would make illegal voting a felony. Texas Democrats say it’s a scare tactic to keep voters away from the polls.
Dallas City Council member Chad West faces two challengers in the District 1 race who say he hasn’t been the best representative of the Hispanic community.
Two Dallas City Council incumbents have reached their term limits. These nine candidates are running to replace them.
The Department of Justice claimed in a complaint filed last week that the owners of a single-family rental discriminated against tenants based on their disability.
After video of a hectic Austin street takeover went viral, Gov. Greg Abbott launched a new task force to slow down the stunt drivers. According to the Dallas Police Department, street takeovers still occur regularly in North Texas.
Texas cities have turned to public facility corporations to fund affordable housing through tax exemptions. Senate Bill 805 would prevent them from doing so.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the state’s smokable hemp ban has been costly for farmers.
Some hemp businesses are removing THCO from their shelves after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it is a Schedule I Controlled substance.
In June, a task force put together by Mayor Eric Johnson this week will turn in a report with recommendations on how to better tackle homelessness in Dallas.
After it was placed on the City Council’s Feb. 22 agenda, a vote on plans for I-345 will be delayed.
A man who climbed to the top of a Dallas construction crane Monday morning was taken into police custody Tuesday after he refused to get down for more than 24 hours.
Southlake’s Carroll Independent School District and several others in North Texas are the subjects of ongoing civil rights investigations by the U.S. Department of Education. Currently, there are eight open investigations of Carroll ISD.
If Texas House Rep. Shelby Slawson gets her way, cities won’t able to do squat to protect tenants from evictions.
New Dallas program will allow rental property owners to do their own annual inspections. The city hopes the program will free up resources and time for code compliance staff to address properties that might regularly be in violation of city codes.
Dallas and other municipalities could legalize adult recreational use of cannabis under House Bill 1937. The bill was filed by Rep. Jessica González, a Dallas Democrat. The bill does have some opponents, even those are in favor of legalizing cannabis.
Over the last couple of months, several houses have caught fire in Dallas’ Tenth Street Historic District. The causes are still undetermined. The Tenth Street neighborhood is considered one of the last remaining intact Freedman’s Towns in the country, complete with its own cemetery where residents who were once slaves are buried.
As part of Dallas’ annual Ticket Track Down initiative, people can donate socks to have their Class C misdemeanor warrant fees waived.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it doesn’t have the tools it needs to regulate CBD. Some hemp industry groups beg to differ.
Clarence Glover is a civil rights activist from Dallas who is proud of his family’s history in the cotton trade. He feels as though many other Black Americans aren’t as proud of this past, even though, he says, the cotton trade helped build Dallas into the business power it has grown into.
