Incumbents Chad West and Casey Thomas will continue serving their respective districts after defeating their opponents in the race for Dallas City Council on Saturday. Eleven total candidates ran for three seats in districts serving Oak Cliff and South Dallas. Fourteen of the Dallas City Council’s 15 seats were up for election this cycle and all were contested, with 56 candidates total in the …

AUSTIN — Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Monday issued a revised revenue estimate that gives lawmakers several billion more dollars to spend as they wrap up the next state budget this month. Hegar cited improved performance of the state economy, as COVID-19 restrictions began to be lifted over the past two months and immunizations improved consumer confidence. “There’s a lot of …

Dallas County Commissioner J.J. Koch is set to ask his colleagues Tuesday to position the local government as a leader in closing one of the worst digital divides in the nation. Koch, a Republican who represents northern Dallas County, will make his opening pitch with a report he commissioned that shows access to high-speed internet is far worse than imagined. …

AUSTIN — The House on Monday advanced legislation that would let Texas voters decide this fall whether to create a low-interest loan fund to encourage electricity and natural gas companies to weatherize their plants, wires, compressors and pipelines. While it’s unclear if the Senate will buy into the idea, the legislation is part of the response to February’s winter storm …

Hit by hail in recent storms? Remember there’s no roofer license in Texas, so you’re on your own. Here are tips from The Watchdog about how to hire the right contractor. Texas also doesn’t require that contractors and roofers provide workers’ compensation for employees or general liability insurance. Reputable companies do. If they don’t, that’s a warning sign. The Watchdog’s …

After Dallas-Fort Worth hits its highest temperature of the year Monday afternoon, a line of severe weather moved through the region in the evening. The temperature at DFW International Airport reached 90 degrees just before 3 p.m. — 10 degrees above the average high for the day. But a strong cold front moving through North Texas on Monday evening brought …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police were able to resolve an hours-long standoff involving an armed man in a crisis at a gas station just off the Southwest Freeway. SWAT officers in tactical gear took down the man without further incident in the 8600 block of the Southwest Freeway, near Gessner, on Monday afternoon. A person who works at the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston business owner is pleading for help in finding a rare album that was stolen right from his doorstep. Sung, the owner of Eve Pink, a Korean pop music store in west Houston, shared with a surveillance video of the April 19 incident. The video shows the moment when the suspect pulls up in a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Just over a year after 5-year-old Jordan Allen, Jr., known to family as “Baby J,” was shot and killed by a stray bullet, a woman has been charged in his death. Shapree Stoneham, 30, is charged with felony murder after court documents said she knowingly fired a gun in the direction of an apartment on Richmond …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A new study shows I-45 from Dallas to Galveston is one of the deadliest interstates, per mile, in the nation. The fleet tracking company, Teletrac Navman, examined data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, also known as NHTSA, from 2016 through 2019 The company said I-45 through much of Texas is revealed as the second deadliest …