Salvation Army activates heat relief efforts across North Texas

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 7/8 6:50A Alanna Quillen

With North Texas experiencing its first 100-degree day of the summer, The Salvation Army of North Texas has activated a region-wide heat relief response aimed at helping vulnerable residents stay safe during the dangerous temperatures. Volunteers...

Program puts former foster care youth on path to college

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 7/8 4:19A Deborah Ferguson

Texas Woman s University in Denton is doing something good to get students who ve been in foster care on the path toward a college degree. More than two dozen foster care alumni are headed to college this fall after graduating from the university...

How Status Labs Made Corporate Philanthropy an Extension of the Work

Fort Worth Weekly 7/7 6:15A Fort Worth Weekly

Most companies that want to do good start by writing a check. Status Labs started with its own toolkit. The reputation management firm built a philanthropic program, Incomplete Sentences, around the one thing it does better than almost anyone:...

3 Excellent Online Casinos Where Community Matters

Fort Worth Weekly 7/6 5:45A Fort Worth Weekly

If you look hard enough, you’ll notice that all kinds of hobbies and interests have their own community – some larger, some smaller. Of course, you likely already know that casino gaming has a big and thriving community, with many people...

Sports Rush: Balls, Bats, and the Beautiful Game

Fort Worth Weekly 7/2 7:24P Rush Olson

There’s a big international professional sports competition going on now, playing some of its matches in North Texas. It’s a sport you might not be as familiar with as the four major U.S. sports, but...

How Mineral Ownership Still Shapes Real Estate Decisions Across Texas

Fort Worth Weekly 7/2 9:28A Fort Worth Weekly

A Texas property sale can look simple at first. The buyer likes the land. The seller likes the offer. Maybe the place has a small house, a barn, a stock tank, a gravel road, and a few old fence lines...

Sports Rush: Building The Soccer Boom

Fort Worth Weekly 7/2 4:12A Rush Olson

In the early days of Major League Soccer, many of the league’s teams played home games in stadiums designed for American football. Their predecessors in the North American Soccer League had done the...

Texas Personal Injury Law in Practice

Fort Worth Weekly 6/26 8:46A Fort Worth Weekly

Texas personal injury practice has changed substantially over the past two decades. The 2003 medical malpractice reforms, the 2011 Texas Supreme Court decisions on damage caps and pre-suit notice requirements, and the steady evolution of...

The DFW-to-Houston Freight Corridor

Fort Worth Weekly 6/26 8:21A Fort Worth Weekly

The I-45 corridor between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston is one of the most active commercial freight routes in the country. Stretching roughly 250 miles and passing through Corsicana, Huntsville, and Conroe before reaching the northern edge of...

Documents International Students Need Translated for University Admissions

Fort Worth Weekly 6/25 8:02A Fort Worth Weekly

International students always discuss their application process, including language exams, essays, and letters of recommendation. Document translation: quiet, administrative, easy to view as secondary rarely comes up with the same urgency. But...

Train involved in crash with semi-truck in Denton

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 6/24 8:46A Dominga Gutierrez

A train that was involved in a minor crash with a sem-truck in Denton on Wednesday afternoon is blocking access for drivers, according to the Denton Police Department. Officers were called to the scene around 12:39 p.m. of the crash. The crash is...

Intersection improvements at FM 407 and I-35W expected to relieve congestion issues

Denton County, TX - News Flash 6/23 5:58A

The Denton County Commissioners Court has been working with the state and county transportation teams to expedite creating right-turn lanes on the west side of FM407 and Interstate 35-West to improve traffic congestion.

Ribbon-cutting ceremony marks completion of US 380

Denton County, TX - News Flash 6/23 5:58A

Denton County officially marked completion of U.S. 380 at Braswell High School on Monday.

All lanes reopen on I-35E in Corinth after hit-and-run Tuesday morning

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 6/23 4:01A Hedija Spahalic, Staff Writer |

A hit-and-run accident on Interstate 35E closed all lanes at Corinth Parkway heading northbound on Tuesday morning from 5 to 8 a.m. The automobile vs. pedestrian accident took place on the 4900 block of the interstate, the Corinth Police...