17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (964+ words) Conroe’s adopted budget preserves $127,500 a year for a 51-camera Flock Safety contract, even as Dallas prepares to cut 321 cameras and other Texas governments pull back from the technology. The Conroe City Council did not hold a separate vote on Flock....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (544+ words) Houston native Regan Hutsell has been crowned Miss America 2027, ending a more than 50-year wait for Texas to claim the national title. Hutsell, who represented Texas in the competition, won the crown Sunday night at the Palm Beach County Convention…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (677+ words) One hundred twenty-six years ago Tuesday, a hurricane struck Galveston and left behind destruction on a scale the United States has never experienced from another natural disaster. The Great Galveston Hurricane came ashore on September 8, 1900, as an estimated Category 4 storm....

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (703+ words) Republican Barry Wernick is making taxes, election administration and public safety central to his campaign to unseat Dallas County Commissioner Andy Sommerman (D-District 2) in the November 3 general election. Wernick, a Dallas attorney and mediator, told The Dallas Express that his…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (581+ words) Tarrant County Republicans packed the Grapevine Convention Center on Wednesday, September 2, as County Judge Tim O’Hare (R) launched the final stretch of his reelection campaign alongside U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other GOP candidates and elected officials. The campaign…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (295+ words) A North Texas FedEx Office alerted authorities after discovering an attempted shipment containing 191 turtles and tortoises, prompting an unusual rescue operation involving the City of Denton Animal Shelter and Dallas Zoo. The Denton Animal Shelter said staff responded to the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (518+ words) Tropical Storm Edouard weakened to a tropical depression Tuesday night after making landfall along the Texas-Louisiana border, but the storm continued to bring heavy rain, strong winds, flooding, and widespread power outages to southeast Texas. The National Hurricane Center said…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (620+ words) Texas insurance regulators warned carriers on September 2 that using a policyholder’s willingness to tolerate a price increase or shop for another policy when setting premiums violates state law. The practice, known as “price optimization,” may result in enforcement action, according…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) Dallas police published 12 homicide notices during August, each covering one death, and had announced no homicide arrest in most of the cases as of September 1. As previously reported by The Dallas Express, DPD had announced three of the deaths through…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (641+ words) Indivisible Dallas, which hosted an event for state Rep. James Talarico (D-District 50), the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is helping organize a march against the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention as part of a coalition whose promotional materials feature the logos…...