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The Dallas County Commissioners Court approved a $1.6 million grant to build new homes and infrastructure in a historic freedmen’s town.

George Dunham remembers the man who, after nearly 50 years, will say goodbye to the North Texas airwaves.

The Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine hosted the Young Women’s Leadership Summit over the weekend.

Republican-aligned on social media are railing against a “feminist” beer ad starring “Broad City” comedian Ilana Glazer.

Bob Sturm of 1310 The Ticket doesn’t expect the Stars to win the NHL Stanley Cup, but that doesn’t mean they won’t make some noise.

The announcement comes hours after NPR announced it would no longer use any of its more than 50 Twitter accounts after they were labeled “state-affiliated media” last week.

Current and former staffers at the Texas Observer are celebrating the news that the 68-year-old publication won’t shutter.

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.

In an unsurprising development in this post-2020 world, Kyle Rittenhouse has become a genuine celebrity. In fact, he’s become a very specific sort of celebrity who transcends reality television and gossip sites and often lands on the front pages of news outlets. The 20-year-old from Illinois gained infamy when in…

Before he caught the ball, cancer caught him. Last May, Cory Youmans was just trying to climb the ladder at a Dallas financial services company – one day talking business outlooks, the next to an oncologist. “When you’re 35 and your doctor says you have cancer, it absolutely changes your…

Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa filed legislation to slow institutional purchases of single family homes and create a registry to track the residential property they buy.

Moderators of the subreddit r/PoliticalHumor have a bone to pick with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and boy are they picking it. In protest of a new Texas law, HB 20, that requires social media companies to host views the companies consider objectionable, Reddit user BlatantConservative wrote that moderators now require…

Do you enjoy combing through public records? Do you keep a watchful eye on what’s happening at City Hall? Do you keep up with soaring rental costs and the impact they’re having on Dallas neighborhoods? In short, do you have your thumb on Dallas’ news pulse? If so, we’ve got…

The Dallas Observer is looking for a staff writer to join our news desk. In case that’s unclear, we are an alternative weekly newspaper looking to hire a journalist – yes, in this day and age – to cover news in one of the nation’s fastest growing cities. What do…

As some fear Texas’ power grid could fail amid summer heat, cryptocurrency businesses continue to move here in droves.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has a vision for the state, and toward that end, he sure does have a lot of ideas. He’s tried to get Texas declared a so-called Second Amendment sanctuary state. He’s started building his own border wall as part of theatric campaign to clamp down on…

As prices spike, many Dallas renters have decided to move to the surrounding cities, recent analysis shows.

This month alone, QAnon John got called out by the Anti-Defamation League and Real Time with Bill Maher for posting antisemitic content.

Four North Texas towns made it to the top 10 of a list of best places to buy a home.

As soon as Casie Tomlin found the FedEx envelope in her mailbox, she knew something looked fishy. Inside, a flyer from a group called Dallas Justice Now urged parents in Dallas’ wealthy – and largely white – Highland Park and University Park suburbs to not send their kids to Ivy…

Last week, journalist and Dallas native Barrett Brown was arrested in the U.K.

Promotional material for the event often includes an acronym that stands for “where we go one, we go all,” a popular QAnon slogan.