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The intense heat wave will stick around through the remainder of the week and this weekend. A Heat Advisory is in effect Wednesday across much of North Texas. High temperatures will be close to record territory on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Luckily, the heat dome will shift westward next week, allowing for temperatures in the 90s to return. Latest Forecast: …

PragerU announced this week that the conservative media outlet will expand its reach into Texas public schools, but state education officials said the controversial nonprofit has not been approved as a vendor. PragerU bills itself as offering an alternative to the “dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media, and education.” It publishes videos that explain hot-button and historical issues in bitesize …

A Mesquite ISD middle school will close Wednesday after a transformer near the building caught on fire and shut off power. Vanston Middle School will be closed Wednesday , the school said in a Tuesday night Facebook post. According to the school, Mesquite Fire Department responded Tuesday afternoon and cleared the area with no damage to the campus. Because of …

Brandy Bottone is sitting around her kitchen table, talking about post-partum depression after her fourth child. “I felt stuck,” she says. Before her baby was even born, Charlotte was something of an international celebrity. One very famous fetus. A year ago, when Bottone was pregnant, she was stopped by Dallas County deputy sheriffs for driving solo in a high occupancy vehicle lane …

As Andrea Reyes wrote her and her two sisters’ names on the front doors of the former O.W. Holmes Humanities/Communications Academy campus, she thought about how much the school meant to her growing up. “It was home away from home; it was a safe space,” said Reyes, who now teaches in Dallas ISD. “That was Holmes.” Reyes and more than …

The intense heat wave will stick around through the remainder of the week and this weekend. A heat advisory is in effect for Wednesday across much of North Texas. High temperatures will be close to record territory on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Luckily, the heat dome will shift westward next week, allowing for temperatures in the 90s to return. There’s …

Texas may purchase the property where one of its leased state parks resides, preventing a possible situation similar to the ongoing Fairfield Lake State Park saga. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department commissioners are meeting Wednesday and Thursday. Included on the board’s agenda is an action for them to vote on whether to authorize department staff to “pursue acquisition of approximately …

St. Paul United Methodist Church, one of the oldest Black churches in Dallas, will celebrate its 150th anniversary this weekend. Located in what is now the downtown Arts District, the church was founded by freed slaves in 1873 and was recognized as a historic landmark by the city in 1982. Resident historian Kevin Hamilton, who leads tours of the church, likes to …

AUSTIN — A retired jurist, picked by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to advise him as he runs Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, has bowed out after news outlets examined political contributions he made and received. Former state appeals court judge Marc W. Brown of Houston said that during recent meetings with Patrick’s staff, he’d forgotten about a $250 contribution he …

If you’ve stepped outside in the past month, you know it’s hot outside. Like, miserably, hopelessly hot. A ferocious heat wave settled over Dallas-Fort Worth and much of Texas, sending people scrambling indoors for air conditioning or trying to have a little fun with things by, say, baking chocolate chip cookies inside their cars. As the National Weather Service issued almost-daily excessive heat warnings, here …