North Richland Hills quoted about $2.3 million to process a public-records request involving Flock cameras.

The Fifth Circuit is considering a challenge to Texas restrictions on overnight campus expression.

Dallas police seek information about the September 12 Highland Hills shooting that killed Zariea Brown and wounded five.

Four voters say eliminating 92 Tarrant County polling places will disproportionately burden Black and Hispanic voters.

Dallas began the fiscal year with 3,410 sworn officers—590 below the City Charter minimum.

CBS and Tony Romo mutually parted ways after nine seasons following his no-contest plea in an OWI case.

Skyline High School students can spend four years learning barbering while earning the training hours needed for a professional licensing path — turning clippers, creativity and culture into potential careers and businesses. Aqua RichJo — October 1, 2026 While some high school students are walking across the graduation stage wondering: “Okay… now what?” Students at Dallas' Skyline High School could be walking across with something else already in motion: A CAREER. Skyline stu

Aqua Richjo| September 28, 2026 Fort Worth firefighters and EMS personnel could get a new four-year contract Tuesday. City Council is scheduled to vote September 29 on a tentative agreement with the Fort Worth Professional Firefighters Association Local 440. The deal calls for a 5% across-the-board raise, step increases in fiscal year 2027 and market raises in later years. It would also raise the minimum daily staffing requirement from 248 to 252. The agreement still needs al

Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 Dallas voters may get to decide whether their city government can leave City Hall. The Save Dallas City Hall Coalition plans to file petition paperwork on Friday, October 2, seeking a charter amendment for the May 2027 ballot. Its proposal would keep Dallas government in the I.M. Pei-designed building unless voters approve a move. That vote is far from guaranteed. The coalition must first collect 20,000 signatures in person from registered Dal

Aqua RichJo| September 27, 2026 Texas has paused permits sought by data-center projects while state agencies examine what their growth could mean for the electric grid and water supplies. On September 21, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt those permits until ERCOT completes an audit. He also said other state regulatory approvals for data-center development should wait for information agencies need to assess grid reliability and wa

Aqua Jones | September 25, 2026 Dallas County has received more than 68,000 voter-registration records that were delayed by a state transmission error. Collin County received about 40,000. Across seven counties that have reported figures, the known total exceeds 178,000 records—and Texas still has not said exactly what caused the failure. Let’s get the number right: 178,000 records does not necessarily mean 178,000 people lost their right to vote. The files include applicatio

Aqua Richjo | September 25, 2026 A woman called police during a domestic disturbance in April 2024. Former Lewisville officer Filemon Perez met her while responding to that call. On September 24, a Denton County jury convicted Perez of stalking her. According to KERA’s report on the trial, evidence showed Perez visited the woman’s apartment complex 83 times over roughly six months while on duty. GPS records reportedly showed that almost all of those visits had no legitimate w

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016. It was never counted. The Fort Worth woman was still convicted of illegal voting, sentenced to five years in prison and left to fight the case for nearly a decade. Now her acquittal stands. On September 24, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed prosecutors’ request to review the ruling that cleared Mason. The court said it had improvidently granted review, meaning it should not have taken

Imagine looking up from your work on Jefferson Boulevard and seeing the word DIGNIDAD roll past in giant pink letters. That happened in Dallas on September 19. Colombian artist Iván Argote’s mobile sculpture traveled by flatbed from Dallas Contemporary to the Latino Cultural Center and through Oak Cliff, stopping at places including the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and Top Ten Records. Along the way, people gathered for conversation, film, music and a monument that came to them

KERA reports at least five other in-custody deaths at the Tarrant County Jail this year and more than 80 jail deaths since Sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017.

On September 15, the council unanimously denied the permit for Pride Kel-So’s planned October 3 festival at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church. Council members did not publicly explain their reasoning during the vote or ask co-organizer April Dreyson questions, according to KERA. That decision came after the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval.