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Updated at 4:12 pm: Revised to include data from Denton County.Dallas County reported a three-day total of three COVID-19 deaths and 1,453 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.District Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement that many…

UPDATED AT 8:30 PM with testimony from the case.A Dallas County judge heard arguments Tuesday over whether a local mask mandate should continue despite Texas Governor Greg Abbott's ban on local governments from taking such public health…

Janie Fricke reached the country and western music scene in the 1970s and was very well known and extremely popular, especially in the 1980s. Now at age 73, she continues to carry her torch of singing and share her musical talent with…

Fan festival4:30 p.m. Friday, August 20 at the Van Meter School and Veterans Reception Center.Van Meter's Fan Fest returns on Friday 20th August. Attendees are encouraged to bring lounge chairs as the entire event takes place outdoors.…

On the first day of the new COVID-19 mask mandate for Dallas County, a number of companies contributed and many customers supported them. At the same time, Dallas County encouraged vaccination in the areas with the lowest…

Dallas County companies have three days to implement new masking and safety guidelines or risk fines after Judge Clay Jenkins signed an emergency warrant on Wednesday. The order comes into effect on Wednesday at 11:59 p.m.…

Resist the urge to interveneThe rise in the civilian death toll in Afghanistan is tragic and I unfortunately fully expect the Taliban's reign of terror to return once they take control of the country. Women will be brutally oppressed,…

Updated at 6pm, July 8th: This story has been updated continuously.Dallas County crossed a major threshold in the fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic this week, achieving herd immunity on July 4th, according to a nonprofit that…

The Plano ISD Board of Trustees heard from 13 speakers during the public comment on August 3, before voting on the revised health and safety protocols for the new school year. (William C. Wadsack / Community Impact Newspaper) Read the…

This story has been continuously updated with additional details from the Dallas County Commissioners Court session.At his first meeting in about a month, four members of the Dallas County Commissioners Court showed up for work wearing…

Just when you thought the list of invasive pests sneaking into Texas couldn't get any longer, it became.Silver carp, a freshwater carp species native to China, was recently discovered in Choctaw Creek in Grayson County. The creek has…

The man behind the counter at the Lake Highlands auto parts store said he hadn't received his COVID-19 vaccine and Marisa Gonzales wanted to know why.Gonzales, a community outreach manager at Dallas County Health and Human Services,…

The City Tower, a 20-story, 435,177-square-foot office tower in Orange, was sold for $ 150.5 million. The building on 333 City Boulevard houses the UC Irvine Medical Center, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Sedgwick and Spaces. The…

Hillwood Communities received 10 McSAM Awards - including several for Pecan Square in Northlake - during a ceremony hosted by the Dallas Builders Association on Saturday. Awards for the development of Pecan Square include Master-Planned…

When the COVID-19 vaccines were introduced in January, thousands of North Texans waited in queues at megacentres across the region. In Collin County officials used the McKinney ISD football stadium. Elsewhere, the Cotton Bowl…

Duane Edwin Peterson of Priest River died at Newport Hospital on Sunday, July 18, 2021. He was 84 years old. Duane was born on January 21, 1937 in Priest River, Idaho, to Edwin George Peterson and…

Walker and Associates, a longtime telecommunications company based in the welcome community, was acquired by USTC Corp.According to a press release, USTC Corp. bought from New Jersey Walker and Associates to further expand their…

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced late Friday that the county had increased its coronavirus threat level to orange with immediate effect in response to a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.The change, which Jenkins…

Some suburbs of Dallas County have seen spikes in new COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, according to Dallas County health officials. The Addison, Lancaster, Sachse and Seagoville cases were about 50% above the national…

After months of efforts to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, Tarrant County and the University of North Texas Health Science Center will partner up at the end of the month. The partnership, first announced in February,…