The city has been working to divert non-emergency services from the Dallas Police Department to other city staff to increase efficiency. Starting next year, the city’s Department of Transportation will begin taking over street blockage enforcement.
Although large irregularities were found in Harris County, an audit of how the state ran the 2020 General Election found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Dallas Animal Services has been offering $150 gift cards to people who foster medium or big dogs to help stop the spread of canine upper respiratory infection.
Dallas bought a luxury apartment complex called The Briscoe in an attempt to provide affordable rents to teachers, first responders and nurses.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting for faith-based adoption agencies to have the right to discriminate on the basis of gender-identity, sexual orientation, and same-sex marriage status.
Despite constitutional concerns, Dallas passed an ordinance banning people, including panhandlers, from standing on medians. Now, the city is getting sued over it, with the Texas Civil Rights Project claiming it violates the First Amendment.
Police maimed protesters with less-lethal ammunition during the 2020 protests against police brutality. Ever since, states and municipalities across the country have considered bans on these types of ammunition. Texas will take up the issue in the upcoming legislative session after the filing of House Bill 974 by Rep. Erin Zwiener.
If passed, a permanent eviction ordinance in Dallas could give tenants up to 20 days to settle late rent with their landlord and stay in their home.
Local author and researcher Edward Sebesta says people with ties to anti-LGBTQ institutions are routinely chosen to give invocation speeches before City Council meetings. It’s unclear who exactly is choosing these speakers, but some say the picks come from the mayor’s office. At least one council member is concerned about the lack of separation between church and state with invocation speeches.
Republican lawmakers in Texas are coming after trans rights this upcoming legislative session, and they’re starting with gender-affirming care for minors and drag shows they want to be labeled as sexual-oriented businesses.
In 2019, then Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic Brad Cox kicked a mentally ill man named Kyle Vess several times while he was on the ground. A new Dallas Police Department investigation sheds new light on details about the altercation as Vess’ family sues Cox in federal court.
Sen. Charles Perry’s Senate Bill 264 could stomp out the state’s market of hemp derived THC.
West Dallas community members are not happy with the owners of a long-standing asphalt shingle manufacturing factory that says it doesn’t plan shut down operations until 2029. Members of the community say they want it gone five years sooner.
Several bills filed ahead of the upcoming legislative session in Texas aim to change the state’s tune on cannabis. It will likely be an uphill battle.
Rep. Gene Wu, a Democrat in Houston, filed a bill that could spell trouble for Texas poker rooms. But that trouble just depends on what county they’re in.
Several laws on the books in Texas criminalize homosexuality. State Sen. Nathan Johnson from Dallas wants to change that with several bills filed early in the upcoming legislative session.
The Supreme Court may not get around to ruling on President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan until later next year. That’s why his administration is extending the pause on student loan repayments for seemingly the last time.
Chantel Hardaway is a single mother of seven living in North Texas. On July 27, as she lay in a hospital after giving birth to a son, a Dallas County justice of the peace court took up her eviction case, and because she didn’t appear, the court ruled in the…
Denton’s city manager is worried about legal challenges to an ordinance passed by voters that would decriminalize low-level marijuana possession. However, none of the other Texas cities that passed similar ordinances have faced such legal challenges.
Some of the bills filed early in the upcoming Texas legislative session double down on the state’s strict abortion laws. Others aim to loosen them.
On the heels of legal challenges from the city, Dallas poker enthusiasts may be headed to the Texas Legislature to fight for legal games in the state.
Rep. Nicole Collier filed a bill this week that could offer a defense to prosecution for people who buy consumable hemp products that contain illegal amounts of THC.
