Highland Hills residents say they've been asking for help for years. After another deadly shooting, Dallas leaders finally walked the neighborhood. Aqua RichJo/October 1, 2026 Imagine hearing gunshots outside your home so often that your response isn't shock anymore. It's getting on the floor. Now imagine being elderly and knowing that once you get down there, you might not be able to get yourself back up. That's what Highland Hills resident Anita Harris described after years

Aqua RichJo | September 24, 2026 At the Trinity River Audubon Center, people can walk prairie trails, watch birds and introduce their children to nature close to home. Beneath part of that restored landscape sits the waste left by Deepwood—once one of Texas’ largest illegal landfills, beside a majority-Black community. That history matters every time somebody calls the place an oasis. South Dallas should not have had to fight through years of dumping to get one. The neighbors