Note: Early voting begins Oct. 13 in Texas. The Dallas County Elections Department, which oversees many aspects of our local elections, held a registration drive right up until the midnight deadline Monday. For most of the day cars snaked through the parking lot and into the street as drivers waited…
It’s not dé·jà vu. The Texas attorney general is in trouble again. Seven of Ken Paxton’s top aides filed a whistleblower complaint against their boss alleging that he is violating federal and/or state law relating to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses. The letter said that…
Ednna will never forget it: The sound of the faucet turning, the elation in her husband’s voice and the sight of pure, clear water — not that yellow stuff they were used to — trickling into the kitchen sink. “It was amazing,” she says in Spanish. “It made it all…
Dallas ISD schools welcomed more students back to class Monday while COVID-19 cases across the county are trending up. According to Dallas County, last week there was an average of 350 new daily cases versus 292 the week before. Other districts around North Texas and the state have already opened…
As coronavirus case counts continue to climb in Dallas County, President Donald Trump is being treated for the disease.
If you live in Travis or Harris counties, thanks to the governor, you might have to venture a lot farther to drop off your mail-in ballots for the upcoming election. By proclamation, Gov. Greg Abbott limited mail-in ballot drop-off locations to just one per county and is allowing parties to…
The Dallas County Elections Department has received more than $15 million in a grant from the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) to help with critical resources in the upcoming general election. The CTCL is a nonprofit that provides funding to local election offices across the country. Before the pandemic,…
Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther and Gainesville state Rep. Drew Springer advanced to a runoff race Tuesday after neither secured an outright majority for District 30.
Every year, Preservation Dallas, an organization focused on preserving and revitalizing historic spaces in the city, publishes a list of local, endangered areas. The historical, nearly a century-old Reverchon Ball Park made it on the list this year because a planned entertainment venue and baseball field threatened to replace it…
Some Halloween traditions are going to be a little different this year because of the pandemic.
The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park, a gem that has stood in Dallas for about 84 years, is set to close for good because of substantial financial losses brought on by the pandemic. The aquarium opened in 1936 as the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, making it the first in…
Thursday, Texas Democrats accused state Rep. Lynn Stucky of having ties to a Christian camp scandal.
Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, will be leaving the publication at the end of the year, he announced in a statement to his staff on Tuesday. Wilson has been in charge of the daily’s newsroom for nearly six years, leading his staff through the July 7, 2016,…
First, it came for his father-in-law and grandma, then it took his dad and uncles. Within the span of six weeks, Dallas’ Jahaziel Salas lost five family members to the novel coronavirus. Salas said he tries his best to be strong for his kids, but it’s been rough. He doesn’t…
Dallas residents walking around the pavilion at White Rock Lake on Monday saw two of the historic stone tables in the picnic area reduced to what looked like a pile of rubble, part of a $650,000 makeover for the park. The stone tables are meant to be restored and renovated, but…
Ahead of Tuesday’s first presidential debate, a new poll shows Biden tied with Trump in Texas.
Protesters’ calls to defund the police largely largely went unheard when the City Council approved the 2020-21 budget last week, with the Dallas Police Department set to get $15 million more in the next fiscal year thanks partly to money from state and federal sources. While activists and some City…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott talked tough on rioters during a press conference at the Dallas Police Association building yesterday, laying out proposed legislation for a crackdown on protests gone awry. “Texas is not going to tolerate violence, vandalism or rioting,” Abbott said. The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceably assemble,…
Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a ceremonial resolution that would have honored Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life.
No one left City Hall completely satisfied last night – not the protesters outside chanting “No justice! No peace!,” nor the city council members who’d spent the last month debating Dallas’ budget. It’s been a long and winding road, but the city council finally found its way to a final…
Dallas ISD’s school board will vote Thursday on a hybrid learning model that would encompass all high schools and Lakewood Elementary.
It’s been about 20 days since electric scooters got the boot in Dallas. Citing public safety concerns and compliance issues, council members Adam Medrano and David Blewett and transportation director Michael Rogers banded together to implement a temporary ban of the scooters. But, scooterless Dallas might not be so temporary…
