Despite numerous high-profile murders and violent crimes, the city is on pace for its largest decrease in homicides since well before the pandemic.
The Dallas Area Transit Alliance launched right as some of the public transportation agency’s suburban partners began pushing to defund it.
The steepest reduction in the program’s history has the leaders of the county's safety net system preparing for the unknown. Here is where things stand.
Anastasia Nixon shows up to work each day to help a growing number of North Texas families who have no place else to go.
Landlords filed nearly 50,000 evictions last year, a county record. That is hardly the only challenge facing a legal nonprofit that seeks to represent these tenants.
Becky Devine had a theory: could outreach teams, deployed days after a drug overdose or poisoning, save lives? Three years later, deaths are declining.
The Texas Legislature passed a bill that makes it legal to build multifamily or mixed-use developments in areas zoned for commercial use. How will this change Dallas-Fort Worth?
They aren’t cops. But this specialized team of city employees is showing how improving neighborhoods and addressing blight can reduce violence.
Dallas officials are finally paying close attention to the Esperanza neighborhood near the city's border with Richardson, envisioning a new future in a shuttered school.
How a simple iron supplement, which costs less than a dime a day, can help Texas reverse its dubious distinction as one of the most dangerous states in the country to be pregnant.
A pair of public-private tools are driving the production of most new affordable housing in Dallas. So why is City Hall growing concerned?
Cornerstone Baptist Church has always sought to be of service beyond its own walls. But losing a longtime associate pastor presented a challenge unlike any this South Dallas institution has taken on.
