A history professor whose ancestors were murdered by the Texas Rangers more than a century ago wants the governor to appoint a committee to investigate the brutal history of the Texas Rangers and recognize their victims.
Buckle your seat belts: The anti-DEI crusade in Texas is starting to gain traction.
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.
Mesquite ISD joins the growing list of Texas school districts considering moving to a four-day school week.
Every scene or sub-culture needs someone who serves as a beacon – a person whose enthusiasm attracts the uninitiated and stokes the long-burning embers of those who’ve been around the block a time or two already. The North Texas mountain biking community lost one of its own beacons when James…
Wild emperor tamarins thrive in tropical rainforests, so it’s safe to assume that on Tuesday, Jan. 31, Bella and Finn were cold. It was 37 degrees inside the boarded-up community home in Lancaster where the pair of monkeys was finally found. The day before, news broke that they’d been swiped…
Texas cities have turned to public facility corporations to fund affordable housing through tax exemptions. Senate Bill 805 would prevent them from doing so.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Monday that he’s running for reelection unopposed. One political hopeful is now claiming fraud.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the state’s smokable hemp ban has been costly for farmers.
Librarians are apparently next up on Texas conservatives’ chopping block.
Some hemp businesses are removing THCO from their shelves after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it is a Schedule I Controlled substance.
The FBI says that 59 arrests have been made as the result of a nearly month-long investigation into online child sexual exploitation. “Beginning January 16, 2023, and continuing through last Friday, February 10, 2023, law enforcement agencies across North Texas brought together highly skilled computer crimes investigators to focus resources…
The “He Gets Us” ad campaign, created by Dallas-based agency Lerma, has proven to be controversial.
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.
Gov. Greg Abbott is leading the charge to rid Texas of DEI policies, but Black and Mexican American state lawmakers are calling on him to reverse course.
When the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) changed how it will approach the topic of school vouchers for the current legislative session, it took many by surprise. One of the more surprised people was board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents District 13, which includes parts of both…
The man authorities say was the source of the fentanyl that contributed to three teens’ deaths in Carrollton and seven more overdoses over the past six months has been arrested. Jason Xavier Villanueva, 22, has been charged with conspiracy to distribute a Schedule II controlled substance in connection to the…
After it was placed on the City Council’s Feb. 22 agenda, a vote on plans for I-345 will be delayed.
Shortly after entering a tiny closet-turned-viewing room, Trinidad Gonzales saw something he still struggles to describe 20 years later. The doctoral candidate had a couple hours of microfilm to review, and toward the end his eyes ached so much that he almost missed it. Almost. He scrolled past the paragraph,…
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.
Rattlesnakes will make an appearance this week at the Texas Capitol as part of a decades-old annual tradition.
