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

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

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

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.