With Labor Day behind us, we are now in the midst of the fall migration season for migratory birds, so the annual Lights Out initiative has begun. Along with helping our feathered friends as best we can, you can also see artistic representations of them at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, lik
government
The city’s public housing authority is over 62% of the way through its five-year housing goal, while being at the halfway mark of the association’s five-year plan. A Fort Worth Housing Solutions spokesperson told the Fort Worth Report that 3,120 housing units have been completed ...
government
Data centers and the water demand associated with them defined the city’s latest Water and Wastewater Capital Improvements Project Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. The Sept. 25 meeting was one of two this year for the committee, which monitors and evaluates implementation reg...
safety
The Fort Worth Building Standards Commission ordered owners of several properties with hazardous structures to repair or demolish them. Others received additional time after they showed progress or presented plans to bring their properties into compliance at a meeting Sept. 28. T...
government
The city has just over two years to spend its current $27.4 million balance allocated to the Woodhaven Reinvestment Zone. The board for the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 13, also known as the Woodhaven TIF, met for the first time since January on Oct. 7. City staff indicate...
tcu
In 2015, Tarrant County had 1,563 primary care physicians and a population of 1,973,526, according to state data. A decade later, the number of primary care physicians had risen to 1,967 — a 26% increase. In tandem, the county boasted 2,322,418 residents last year, an 18% increas...
government
By Andrew Piel I was born at Arlington Memorial Hospital in 1972, right when the Texas Rangers got here, and first lived for a few years on an Arlington street called Larkspur. In 1977, when I was 5, Mom and Dad decided they needed more room, so we moved a few miles west to Littl...
safety
The Canton police officer who was severely injured during an intense exchange of gunfire has been released from the hospital. According to Sheriff Kevin Bridger, Officer Chris Watson was among the responding deputies and officers who were attempting to make contact with 42-year-o...
western
Some interesting items going on in the world of sports this week appear interconnected to me, two in soccer and one each in baseball and basketball: St. Louis SC won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the first silverware in franchise history The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyri...
government
Ezra Ochieng Owenga, aged 72, passed away on Oct. 14, 2026. Born on Jan. 1, 1954, in Kendu Bay, Kenya, he was the cherished son of the late Mr. Philemon Osumba Owenga and Mrs. Claris Auma Oreny. The loss of Ezra creates a profound emptiness for his family and friends, who will ho...
safety
A North Texas community will come together Saturday to remember 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, whose disappearance and death touched the hearts of residents across the region. The city of Everman will host a public candlelight vigil in Noel's memory on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 6...
schools
Donna Kay Klutts-Vick was born on April 28, 1941, in Bisbee, Arizona. She graduated at the top of her class from Hamilton High School in 1959, the same year she married Chester Otis Vick. Donna lived in Houston until 1996, when she moved to Benbrook. She retired from Allstate Ins...
government
In July, Lisa Dixon returned to her classroom at Keller ISD’s Hillwood Middle School to prepare for the new school year and found that the temperature inside was 87 degrees. For several months before then, the eighth-grade history teacher and her students dealt with a failing air...
