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A Preston Center redo that’s been in the works for a few years is set to go before Dallas’ city plan commission later this week.

Redevelopment of Preston Center in Dallas likely to move forward this week A development set to bring apartments, office and retail along Luther Lane in Preston Center is set to move ahead with the right development plan and...

The 16th edition of Dallas Art Fair is taking place April 4-7 at the Fashion Industry Gallery! The Fair features over ninety galleries from around the world and spectacular events that you won’t want to miss. Come celebrate at the Fair’s Foundation Preview Benefit on April 4th , 5:00–9:00PM.

Tickets proceeds benefit the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary.

Tickets on sale now: https://bit.ly/49YJiZL
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The total solar eclipse is less than a month away and many are turning their attention to April 8 weather conditions.

With millions of eclipse-chasing tourists expected in North Texas and many more waiting in anticipation for the celestial phenomenon, weather and climate experts shared how they’re tracking sky conditions in the region.

Worried El Niño will ruin solar eclipse plans April 8 in Texas? Here’s what experts say The Dallas Morning News spoke with meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth and the Texas State Climatologist to get their thoughts about...

Kyrie Irving’s 28 points and late heroics were also key in a win in San Antonio.

Luka Doncic endures tough night, Mavs see team defense pay off while finishing Spurs sweep

A suspect arrested in a southeast Dallas homicide last week allegedly stole a car with a woman inside and crashed into a pole at a high rate of speed, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.

1 ejected, killed in crash after Dallas man stole car with woman inside, affidavit says Darion Thomas, 26, was arrested on a murder charge in connection with the death of Karen Mariela.

Environmental officials are monitoring Dallas’ White Rock Lake days after 1.5 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into nearby water from Plano.

What’s next at White Rock Lake after 1.5 million gallons of sewage spilled from Plano? Texas state officials are investigating a sewage spill that dumped 1.5 million gallons of wastewater from Plano into White Rock Creek.

A 9-year-old girl from Dallas was killed in a car accident Saturday in northwest Texas, officials said.

9-year-old University Park girl killed in car accident in northwest Texas Molly Mullens was in the car on U.S. Highway 70 with her parents, two older brothers and family dog when a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction lost...

McDonald’s announced the drink-centric concept last December when it opened the first CosMc’s in Bolingbrook, Ill. The company said it would open nine additional pilot locations between Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio but didn’t give any details about where or when.

McDonald’s spin-off CosMc’s opens first Texas location in Dallas At least two more North Texas locations of CosMc's are in the works.

About 4 p.m. Sunday, deputies with the Smith County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a kidnapping in the 11700 block of Farm Market Road 2015. The deputies were told the victim was taken from his home at gunpoint by two men demanding an unknown amount of money from him, according to a news release.

Kidnapped Smith County man brought home after being found in Fort Worth, officials say Two suspects are in custody after an unidentified man was allegedly kidnapped.

A Garland man who admitted last year to owning more than 10,000 files of child p**n was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison.

Man who admitted to owning ‘10,000 pieces’ of child p**n sentenced to 15 years in prison Jared Capizzi, 45, who admitted to receiving thousands of files containing child p**nography, was sentenced Monday to serve 15 years in prison, according to...

Federal authorities say a Mexican drug cartel is sending buyers with cash into North Texas to acquire as many high-powered rifles as possible for use in its ongoing wars with rivals and Mexican security forces. Here's what to know about the two primary weapons they have sought.

Mexican cartels want to buy these U.S. rifles Among the top weapons acquired by Mexican cartels and their U.S.-based straw buyers are the M249S belt-fed rifle and the Barrett .50 caliber rifle.

Almost a month before Dallas voters can begin casting early ballots for or against a $1.25 billion bond program, they still don’t have a final list of projects the bond money could cover.

What exactly would Dallas’ $1.25 billion bond program cover? Voters still don’t know City officials had planned to host town hall meetings to educate voters about the bond plans ahead of the election, but they have scrapped those plans.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may plan to address investors piling into the homebuying space during the next legislative session, set to commence Jan. 14.

This won’t be the first time lawmakers are presented with the prospect of putting in place measures to help the everyday Texan with investors infiltrating the single-family space — but it does beg the question of whether Abbott’s backing may give it more oomph.

Texas lawmakers saw single-family home-investor tussle before and did nothing Texas lawmakers have considered legislating against investors in the single-family housing market before, and it didn't make it far. Will it have stronger...

After doubling its win total from last season, SMU will open play in the 32-team NIT by visiting Indiana State at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Indiana State was among the first four teams left out of the NCAA Tournament despite a 28-6 record and Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title.

Why SMU basketball chose to play in NIT despite larger programs opting out After doubling its win total from last season, SMU will open play in the 32-team NIT by visiting Indiana State at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

At real estate development company Hillwood, veterans hiring is “a part of our DNA." Hillwood Development

Beyond the call of duty: How Hillwood paves new paths for veterans The Dallas-based company stands out with its commitments to aid veterans and their families in their transition from military service to civilian life.

"It took Dallas decades to fully face President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s taken far longer to acknowledge the murders that occurred about 100 years earlier — just on the other side of where the Triple Underpass would eventually stand," writes columnist Sharon Grigsby.

Dallas will finally honor local victims of lynching and racial violence with monument | Grigsby In early 2018, in the midst of the debate over removal of Confederate statues, Dallas City Council members expressed interest in a memorial to victims of...

A 9-year-old who died days after being struck by a truck while riding his scooter in Far East Dallas is being remembered by his family as a “goofy kid [who] could make anyone smile.”

9-year-old boy dies after vehicle collides with electric scooter in Far East Dallas A Wylie student was hit and killed by a truck in Dallas while riding an electric scooter, officials say.

Ruling late Tuesday night, a federal appeals court blocked Texas from enforcing its new immigration law, the latest whiplash-inducing legal development over Senate Bill 4, which seeks to give the state a role in arresting and deporting migrants.

Appeals court blocks Texas immigration law hours after Supreme Court gave its OK The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Texas, for now, to enforce a new state law that authorizes state and local police to arrest undocumented migrants and for...

The U.S. Supreme Court says it won’t review a federal appeals court decision that paved the way for Dallas to start enforcing an ordinance requiring all strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses to close between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to take Dallas strip club curfew case The Supreme Court denied a petition to review the case filed last month by the Association of Club Executives of Dallas and five Dallas sexually orientated...

President Joe Biden will be in Dallas for a pair of private campaign receptions on Wednesday as he turns his full attention to a November rematch against Donald Trump.

Joe Biden coming to Dallas for Wednesday fundraisers President Joe Biden is looking to tap Democratic donors in Dallas and Houston to extend his campaign's fundraising advantage.

The word du jour in the 2024 presidential campaign is “bloodbath” — specifically, what former President Donald Trump did or didn’t mean when he used the term at a March 16 Ohio rally.

Without context, some voters could assume that Trump’s “bloodbath” remarks were predicting violence by his supporters should he lose at the polls.

PolitiFact | In Context: What Trump said about a ‘bloodbath’ and Biden’s actions on the car industry PolitiFact provides the full context for Republican president candidate and former President Donald Trump's “bloodbath” remark.

The newest site for gun traffickers to buy high-powered rifles is a store off the Sam Rayburn Tollway in The Colony, police say. It’s a building that could be mistaken for a medical clinic, and it sits between a furniture store and a burger and beer joint.

Three men are in federal custody charged with using cash to buy a military-style rifle. Authorities say a Mexican cartel was the true buyer.

Trio accused of buying high-powered rifle for Mexican drug cartel at North Texas gun store Three men allegedly bought rifles for Mexican drug cartels at a store in North Texas. The case is notable because it represents an escalation in the firepower...

Shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sunday, a Dodge Ram truck southbound on South Belt Line Road crossed over onto the northbound lanes of the road, near Lakeview Drive, and collided with a Jeep SUV, according to a Monday news release.

Woman facing intoxication manslaughter charge after deadly Grand Prairie crash, police say A woman is facing an intoxication manslaughter charge after a deadly crash in Grand Prairie Sunday morning, according to police.

It’s the end of an era.

Smith spent 13 years with the Cowboys, becoming a fixture on the team’s offensive line.

Longtime Cowboys LT Tyron Smith bids farewell to Dallas with heartfelt statement Tyron Smith spent 13 years with the Cowboys, becoming a fixture on the team’s offensive line. He'll team up with Aaron Rodgers on the New York Jets in 2024.

A Dallas fentanyl trafficker who confessed to dealing more than 142,000 counterfeit pills was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.

Dallas man who distributed more than 142,000 fentanyl pills sentenced to 20 years A Dallas drug trafficker was sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting in plea papers that he distributed more than 142,000 fentanyl pills.

The strike at Fort Worth’s Molson Coors brewery is now entering its second month, with union leaders seeing no visible signs of an agreement.

Molson Coors workers in Fort Worth see no end in sight as strike enters second month The 420 union workers walked off the job in a disagreement over pay raises and a proposed end to tiered health care and retirement benefits.

A mechanical failure at a Plano water station spilled more than 1.5 million gallons of untreated waste into White Rock Creek before it was repaired Saturday.

More than 1.5 million gallons of sewage spilled into White Rock Creek from Plano More than 1.5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into White Rock Creek from Plano.

“The talent speaks for itself,” said veteran reserve outfielder Travis Jankowski. “It is through the roof. But both of them have this intangible calm demeanor about themselves, a sense that they just belong. I don’t know any other way to describe it. It’s just a great mentality to have.

“Maybe the thing that stands out is that nothing stands out in the sense that they never look overmatched. They just fit in.”

A seasoned MLB veteran’s take on the Texas Rangers’ Wyatt Langford-Evan Carter phenomenon If anyone has a bead on the rookie duo it’s Travis Jankowski, who’s been in the majors for a decade and has spent as much time around the two this spring as...

A woman who admitted to shooting another woman in east Oak Cliff turned herself into authorities early Sunday, Dallas police said.

Shortly after 5 a.m., Dallas police were notified a woman had come into a Grand Prairie police station and “said she had shot another woman in Dallas,” according to a news release.

North Texas woman admits to shooting 80-year-old in Dallas, turns herself in, police say An 80-year-old woman was found fatally shot early Sunday, according to Dallas police. A woman in Grand Prairie turned herself into authorities and admitted to...