Politics & Government

Shelley Luther lost her state Senate bid, but her husband plans to pen a book about her rise to fame.

In a statement, Lee Merritt, the Botham Jean family attorney, said the lawsuit will give them an opportunity to “once again try and hold the City of Dallas accountable for its failures in training officers on appropriate use of force.”

Candidates for the next police chief said they would work to build more trust with communities, expand programs like RIGHT Care and fight fore more civilianization in the Dallas Police Department.

Texas Democrats have created a new political action committee that seeks to boot Texas’ top cop.

State Senate candidate Shelley Luther attacks her opponent in a new political ad ahead of Saturday’s election.

Houston U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw tries his hand at acting in “Georgia Reloaded,” an ad urging people to vote in that state’s senatorial runoff races.

Council members say there’s not a lot the city can do about legitimate offers from investors to buy people’s homes, regardless of how frequent they are.

Backlogs at the city’s permitting office are putting an extra strain on Dallas developments. Improvements are in the works, but the permitting process is already keeping some businesses out of the Big D.

Last month, Dallas City Council members had mixed feelings about expanding a ‘no cruising’ ordinance to reduce sex trafficking and prostitution. But, after seeing enforcement of the ordinance first hand, they had a change of heart.

Problems with the city’s online portal for submitting and processing permits have persisted since it was launched last year. The pandemic made things worse.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest Republican to showcase their support for President Donald Trump.

Dallas’ nuisance abatement enforcement has come into question over the years, but it hasn’t stopped the city from trying to get property owners to do the job of the police: fighting crime.

The Dallas Police Department says that there are as many as 2000 street racers in the city on any given weekend. The department has stepped up enforcement, but the city wants to do more.

Gov. Greg Abbott may have endorsed her opponent, but state Senate hopeful Shelley Luther is still confident she’ll win.

The Tarrant County GOP is quite agitated the county has been cast as “blue” after the Nov. 3 general election. As mail-in ballots trickled in after Election Day, the seesaw tipped ever so slightly Democratic under the weight of about 1,826 more votes cast for the Biden/Harris ticket than Trump/Pence…

Matthew McConaughey could move into the Texas governor’s mansion in 2022 if he plays his cards right.

Dallas’ digital divide may begin to narrow soon.

Monday, the Senate Chamber Review Committee discussed the future of three Confederate paintings hanging in the Texas Senate Chamber.

While most Texas Republicans continue to support the Trump campaign’s claims of voter fraud, others have begun to distance themselves from the president.

Dallas kept growing, but it’s police department didn’t. Some say this is why the police need the state’s help with violent crime.

Monday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz condemned a Democratic colleague for wearing a mask, sparking outrage on social media.

In 2013, the Arlington Police Department began experimenting with a then-novel way of looking at crime. With money from a National Institute of Justice grant and in partnership with academic criminologists, Arlington used Risk Terrain Modeling, a data analysis tool, to combine existing crime reports with geographic information in hope…