Politics & Government

Courts are stalling Dallas’ enforcement of new hours of operation for sexually oriented businesses.

After this weekend, a 6-foot statue of Santos Rodriguez will look over Pike Park.

Republicans for Voting Rights has launched a new billboard campaign slamming Gov. Greg Abbott over his audit of the 2020 presidential election.

On Friday, Dallas Animal Services had nearly 400 pets and they needed some help taking care of them.

Danielle Thomas already had so much on her mind that the winter storm barreling toward North Texas barely registered. Her grandmother had died nearly a month earlier, and on the same day, she lost her job as an instructor at a Dallas kickboxing studio. She was busy grappling with the…

On Friday, as Texas continued to grapple with winter weather, gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke embarked on his statewide “Keeping the Lights On” tour.

Winter Storm Landen took out power for tens-of-thousands across Texas.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert is challenging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican primaries on March 1, but even if he unseats Paxton, Gohmert might carry on Paxton’s legacy of involvement in high-profile criminal investigations. On Tuesday, White House counsel Dana Remus sent a letter to the National Archives, where…

For the second year in a row, advocates in Dallas are preparing the homeless for harsh winter weather.

With Winter Storm Landon nearly upon Texas, hundreds of flights are being canceled in Dallas-Fort Worth, schools are shutting down, and some hospitals are announcing closures. Temperatures are expected to plummet Wednesday evening. The storm, which is expected to bring snow and ice, likely won’t last as long as last…

In a new report, the SPLC notes that 2,089 Confederate memorials still stand across the U.S. and its territories.

Five voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit in a U.S. district court asking for Texas’ Secretary of State to release documents about a state program they claim “threatens to remove naturalized citizens from the voter rolls.” The groups include the Campaign Legal Center, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation…

This week’s winter storm is expected to last some 48 hours.

New rules for Dallas’ concrete batch plats could go to City Council for consideration in April.

Anti-semitism is a common thread in QAnon and other global conspiracy theories.

In a sermon laden with violent language, a Frisco pastor called Denton County Republican Party Chair Jayne Howell a “Jezebel.”

Hundreds of conservative politicians and rallygoers are gathering this weekend on the Texas-Mexico. Concerned by “credible threats,” the National Butterfly Center closed on Friday and will stay that way through Sunday. The National Butterfly Center, a private nature reserve that spans 100 acres in the Rio Grande Valley, is one…

If owners of sexually oriented businesses don’t abide by the new rule, they could have their licenses suspended for 30 days, be fined up to $4,000 and face up to a year in jail.

When dozens of white nationalists decked out in matching garb marched in lockstep from the Lincoln Memorial toward the U.S. Capitol in December, Joe Rogan was sure they were federal agents in disguise. “They just pop up outta nowhere with the same sized flags, the same outfits, goose-stepping … in…

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw is taking heat on social media over an exchange in which he tells a young girl to not “question his faith.”

This isn’t the first time Carlos Quintanilla has run for Congress. In fact, he’s tried to beat out fellow Democrat and U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey three times in primary races since 2016, falling short each time. In 2016, he got a little more than a third of the vote, but…

When Chas Moore took the podium at AT&T’s downtown Dallas plaza, he urged the protesters not to buy into what he called the “bastardized” version of MLK’s message that has become prevalent. On Monday, MLK Day, he told the crowd that corporations had coopted MLK’s legacy, erasing much of the…