Politics & Government

Today, the Dallas City Council will vote on zoning changes that some say will help preserve the historically Black Elm Thicket-Northpark neighborhood.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ought to know how the law works. He’s the state’s top cop, has faced an indictment or two of his own and recently had his latest run-in with a service processor, from whom he reportedly fled. But on Monday, he bought a series of billboards…

Operation Lone Star has run up a $4 billion tab, but it’s also racking up quite the corpus of criticism.

Scooters got booted from Dallas in 2020. Their return could be delayed until 2023.

With religious jingoism on the rise, progressive faith leaders must navigate money, politics and the occasional “underground work” to support their flock

With rents up, some tenants are worried about ending up on the streets.

Oncor, the state’s largest energy delivery company, is set to increase its rates. But, it’ll have to get through the city of Dallas first.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, faced off in their first – and likely only – gubernatorial debate on Friday night. The televised debate took place at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Ahead of the event, news broke that Abbott’s campaign had…

College Park may be renamed to Fahim J. Minkah Community Park if these activists get their way.

If Dallas says your business is causing public safety issues, it may protest your license to sell alcohol.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni spent much of her political life on the farthest fringe of the radical right. Although she now insists fascism is a thing of the past, in the early 1990s she joined the Youth Front of the Italian Social Movement, a party founded by a former chief of…

A mound of mulch stirred up some controversy in Dallas Cochran Park.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican representing Texas’ 10th congressional district, went on Fox Friday to claim that abortion isn’t an issue most voters care about. When Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked McCaul about the importance of the abortion debate ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, he gave a…

So many Dallas Fire-Rescue vehicles are out of service that the city has turned to temporarily renting trucks for the department.

Oak Cliff Community Investment Fund has plans for a 63-acre Southern Dallas community with affordable housing, green space, grocery stores, and more

Gov. Greg Abbott has sent another busload of migrants north, this time to the Naval Observatory in D.C.

On Tuesday, Fox News ran an especially alarming headline about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Eagle Pass. The way the report put it, locals had started arming themselves, in part, because, according to at least one resident, migrants had “killed pets” in town. The Fox report said that migrants were…

The Dallas Police Department says it’s violent crime reduction plan has decreased “violent street crime” by 12% in the last year.

In June last year, Dallas residents submitted some 27,000 complaints about delayed or missed sanitation services. Residents still complain about the services today, but they may start to change in December.

It’s the latest drag brunch targeted by conservatives and right-wing groups in Texas.

Audit finds shortcomings in how Dallas investigates aggressive and dangerous dogs.

Texas Democrats announced that they will make a month-long media tour around Texas to explain what they have done so far during Biden Administration and what they can do if they gain seats in midterm.