Politics & Government

City Manager T.C. Broadnax has another week until the City Council will take up his performance review.

Gov. Greg Abbott is bringing back talk of a migrant “caravan” ahead of November’s midterms.

The mayor and some City Council members have asked for meetings to consider “discipline or removal” of City Manager T.C. Broadnax.

Many are thinking of school safety in the wake of the Uvalde mass shooting, including Adam McGough, City Council member and public safety committee chair. In a memo last week, McGough detailed steps he thinks could be taken to increase school safety locally.

After Don Maison died this year, City Council members Chad West, Omar Narvaez and Gay Donnell Willis asked for street toppers to remember him.

Dallas filed a notice of appeal against a federal ruling that allowed sexually oriented businesses in the city to stay open after 2 a.m.

The White Rock Lake Museum has been at the Bath House Cultural Center since 2004. That could change one day soon.

These are 10 of the most absurd titles on state Rep. Matt Krause’s “banned book” list.

The Texas GOP may soon try to outlaw drag shows in the presence of kids.

Nearly 70% of Republicans believe in tenets of the great replacement theory, a racist conspiracy popularized by prominent conservatives.

Months after Dallas passed an ordinance saying sexually oriented businesses needed to close from 2-6 a.m., a federal judge says it can’t be enforced.

On Wednesday, Beto O’Rourke interrupted Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference about the Uvalde school shooting.

Tuesday’s massacre at an Uvalde elementary school is one of Texas’ deadliest mass shootings.

Lead exposure can cause health problems for children and adults. That why there’s been an effort to address homes built before 1978 that likely utilized lead-based paint. Years after receiving over $2 million to address this, only 10 homes are in the pipeline for the lead-reduction services.

Residents say they’ve been left out of the city’s plans for new projects to help the homeless.

When a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the government from ending Title 42, a controversial policy that allows the U.S. to expel migrants on public health grounds  because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texan Republicans leapt to celebrate the ruling and rights groups quickly issued condemnations. Judge Robert Summerhays, writing in…

Former City Council member Sandra Crenshaw stepped up to the microphone at Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting to make what some are calling homophobic and transphobic remarks against her opponent in the runoff election for Texas House District 100. Her opponent, Venton Jones, is an openly gay, openly HIV positive candidate.

FOX News’ Tucker Carlson called Texas U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw “eyepatch McCain,” sparking condemnation from Democrats and some Republicans alike.

The emerald ash borer, a destructive non-native wood-boring pest that seeks out ash trees, has been found in different parts of North Texas over the years. It’s only a matter of time before it’s in Dallas.

An ordinance passed by City Council this week will help Dallas residents fight batch plants trying to set up shop near their communities.

Since he launched Operation Lone Star last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has attracted criticism from rights groups and advocates over the controversial border clampdown. But his latest idea – pressuring the federal government to cut off baby formula to migrant children – is possibly his harshest yet. On Thursday,…

The final redistricting maps threatened to split neighborhoods. There’s less of that in the final map submitted to City Council, but now some say it doesn’t change enough.