Politics & Government

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…

Thursday, Texas Democrats accused state Rep. Lynn Stucky of having ties to a Christian camp scandal.

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…

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…

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…

One factor keeping people in Dallas from getting better medical treatment is how complicated it is to navigate the health care system, particularly in neighborhoods that are home to the city’s neediest populations, Parkland Hospital executives told a City Council committee Monday. Supporting new mothers immediately after they give birth…

Sandra Anchondo Hansen studied accounting in school. She became an attorney and a small business owner, but she says she goes home every day feeling like a landscaper. At the end of the day, Hansen and the workers at her auto repair shop, Motorwerkz of Dallas, often go home covered…

Murders in Dallas are up and the Dallas Police Department has fallen short in trying to decrease the overall violent crime rate. While the mayor and the rest of the City Council argue about where to make appropriate cuts to improve public safety, there is one point of agreement: DPD…

Just 4 in 10 Republicans think the federal government should play a large role in health care, a new Pew Research Center poll shows.

If Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua gets his way, people in Dallas will be able to possess less than 2 ounces of marijuana without the worry of being cited or arrested by Dallas police. Next month, Bazaldua intends to propose the “decriminalization” of low-level marijuana possession in the city…

Monday, outgoing Dallas Police chief U. Reneé Hall and law enforcement leadership briefed City Council’s public safety committee on this year’s modest decrease in violent crime.

Marsha Jackson is relieved when the rain rolls through her Dallas neighborhood off of Highway 30. She’s lived there since 1995. Twenty-five years ago, the area was more rural. It was greener and breathing was easier back then, she says. Jackson bought the land where she lives largely for her…

As protesters crossed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge toward a wall of cops on June 1, they chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Members of the media were among the protesters. Photographers’ camera shutters snapped, writers scribbled in their notebooks and some streamed the event live on their phones. Then, the…

Just three years after becoming the first woman to lead the Dallas Police Department, U. Renee Hall has become the first woman to resign from the DPD chief’s job, City Manager T.C. Broadnax just announced. “Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax has accepted Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall’s letter of resignation…

Shelley Luther wants less government and more freedom. The Dallas hair salon owner recently announced her candidacy for the Texas Senate, and if elected, she said she’ll fight against what she sees as government overreach.

Starting today, you won’t see people on electric scooters zipping down the streets of Dallas. Citing public safety worries, the Dallas Transportation Department halted the city’s scooter program this week. All scooter operators are ordered to cease operations today and the scooters themselves must be removed from city streets by…

Local animal rights advocates say they have some worries about proposed $380,000 cuts to Dallas Animal Services’ budget.  The cuts in the recent draft city budget being worked on by the City Council include $50,000 to DAS’s body camera budget, $249,000 in salaries for one vet and one manager III position,…

Monday, the Texas Democratic Party announced it would be contacting 1 million Texans this week to help them register to vote ahead of November’s general election. Teaming with U.S. Senate hopeful MJ Hegar’s campaign, “Texas Voter Registration Week” will last until Sunday. Young adults and people of color, who historically…