The state of marijuana regulation in Texas, as it stands at the beginning of 2020, is a puzzle. For those of the right race and socioeconomic status, weed is effectively legal. In the state's big cities especially, pot isn't seen as a scourge — po...

Newly released documents paint a disturbing picture of the incident that lead to the arrest of a Dallas County Sheriff's Department deputy Thursday evening. Deputy Austin Palmer is charged with assault causing bodily injury and official oppression...

People across North Texas, and in Dallas specifically, have progressively gotten squeezed by the region's rental market, according to a report from RENTCafe, a rental market analysis website. Despite robust apartment construction, rental cost...

Stripped of specific context, Thursday's events in Washington were remarkable. Ninety-nine U.S. senators — Oklahoma's Jim Inhofe was absent, dealing with a loved one's medical emergency — swore an oath promising to impartially weigh whether Presid...

It doesn't take a particularly good memory to remember when Dallas had a problem with loose dogs. A crisis is probably a more accurate way to describe it. A 2016 study found that there were literally thousands of loose dogs roaming the streets of ...

When the Observer first reported on the burgeoning "sanctuary cities" for the unborn movement last summer, the whole thing seemed like a sideshow. Waskom, a town smack-dab in the middle of Gohmertland in East Texas, banned abortion clinics wi...