Politics & Government

In February, Dallas considered a program to hire panhandlers for different jobs around the city. Across the country, cities are doing something similar, paying the homeless to pick up trash.

Some companies say they’ll keep selling delta-8 THC despite the Texas Department of State Health Services saying the stuff is illegal.

Body camera video showed Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic Brad Cox kick a detained mentally ill man in the face while he sat on the ground. Surveillance footage from a nearby business shows he kicked him several more times before police arrive on the scene.

Democrat Mike Collier has officially announced his campaign for Texas lieutenant governor.

Another concrete batch plant wants to move into West Dallas. A hearing in front of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Oct. 18 could be neighbors only chance of stopping it.

Just past 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, a man wearing a ball cap, glasses and face mask slipped through the back door of Top Dog Gun Range in Krum, around an hour northwest of Dallas, and headed to the display case. Security camera footage shows the man riffling around in…

In the months leading up to the November 2020 presidential elections, Fox News recycled then President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of an electoral conspiracy against him. But on Nov. 7, Fox reversed course, declaring Joe Biden the winner. As Trump and his supporters railed against Fox, the most-watched network in the…

The candidates are saying some weird stuff ahead of next year’s Republican gubernatorial primary.

Instead of charging people with public intoxication, the City Marshal’s Office wants to connect people with resources that can help them with homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse.

Over the decades, Dallas has gone through periods of high hope for Lemmon Lake. But since the levee broke, the area has turned into a wet meadow and nature has begun to reclaim it.

Local attorneys say cops often say arrests happened one way, when video shows it happened another.

An explosion destroyed an apartment building in Highland Hills, displacing hundreds of residents. Now, they don’t know what’s next.

A Dallas police officer was accused of falsifying evidence. Attorneys say this happens all the time.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said he supports pop star Britney Spears’ fight for release from her conservatorship.

Brad Cox was hired at Dallas Fire-Rescue in 2002. In 2019, he allegedly kicked a detained mentally ill man named Kyle Vess while he was on the ground. Now, Cox is on administrative leave.

Democrats are blasting Texas’ forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election.

A Dallas Police Department public integrity investigation determined no criminal wrongdoing by Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighter Brad Cox.

Democrats insist that as governor, Beto O’Rourke would offer Texans more than just charisma.

Filed in late July, Kyle Vess is suing Dallas Fire-Rescue employee Brad Cox for detaining him and using excessive force.

Many states are responding to Texas’ new anti-abortion law.

Violence struck Deep Ellum last weekend and now the Dallas Police Department wants to been up security in the neighborhood. Some worry what that means for business owners and patrons.

The council will meet regularly to talk about ways to increase tolerance in Dallas. It will also work with the police department to find ways to better respond and prevent hate crimes.