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As residents start to look for ways to recover from the floods caused by the storms that blew through North Texas earlier this week, local government officials are encouraging them to report damages to the state — an important step for requesting federal damage assistance. Residents can fill out the Individual State of Texas Assessment Tool, an online damage assessment survey that …

Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax will get a boost in pay starting in October after he and other top city officials were evaluated Wednesday. The City Council on Wednesday approved a 3% raise for Broadnax after discussing his work performance in closed session, bumping his yearly salary to more than $423,000. Mayor Eric Johnson and council members Paula Blackmon, Adam …

A Dallas County grand jury declined to indict a man accused of asking someone to send a racist and threatening email to a judge in an attempt to thwart his trial even after she’d recused herself from his case. The grand jury made the decision Tuesday not to indict Wesley Gerard Jones, 32, on a charge of making a terroristic …

A Dallas police officer shot at a man with a rifle, but did not strike him, after ordering him to drop the gun during a domestic dispute call, according to footage released Monday by police. Officers Robert Lyons and Holly Harris arrived Saturday just before 10 a.m. to the home in the 2500 block of Hudspeth Avenue in east Oak Cliff, where they …

A photo of a Texas police officer posing for a selfie with Kyle Rittenhouse has sparked outrage on social media. The photo was posted to the Thrall Police Department’s official Facebook page earlier this month. It has since been removed, but the image is circulating widely on social media. In the photo, an unnamed officer is standing with a smiling …

Who had abortions in Texas? Before the procedure was largely halted in the state, the average abortion patient was in her 20s, already has children, and has not had a previous abortion, official data compiled by the state from 2017 to 2022 shows. The youngest, according to state data, was one Texas child age 11 or under who had an …

After a day of record-breaking rainfall, at least one fatality, and hundreds of traffic and water-related emergency calls, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is asking residents to apply for financial assistance. Jenkins declared a state of disaster on Monday afternoon, opening up federal financial assistance opportunities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has multiple buckets of financial help options available now that …

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD’s board narrowly passed a broad set of policies that would limit how teachers talk about race, gender and sexuality, impact which bathrooms transgender students can use and give trustees a greater say over what books are available in schools. “These policies are a reflection of Texas law and community values,” GCISD Board President Casey Ford said. The policies …

A coalition of advocacy groups and residents in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods on Thursday filed a complaint with the federal government against the city of Dallas alleging it has failed to address harmful industrial zoning. The complaint to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development alleges the city’s industrial zoning policies and practices violate the Fair Housing Act by …

As the clock approached 11 p.m. Thursday, 15 hours into another City Plan Commission marathon and with the overstuffed agenda’s most consequential item yet to be voted on, we had all reached the breaking point. A high-stakes discussion over the roadmap for a five-mile area of Oak Cliff, to the south and west of Bishop Arts, had disintegrated into word salad ping-ponged between …