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Texas' drought is the worst in years. Is the state on the brink of widespread disaster?

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas is in the worst drought conditions since 2011, when 95% of the state was in drought. Eleven years ago, parched conditions caused more than $7 billion in crop and livestock losses, sparked wildfires, pushed power grids to the limit and reduced reservoirs to dangerously low…

Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2022

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants a Florida-style ‘don’t say gay’ bill to be a Texas priority

FORT WORTH, Texas — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to pursue a Florida-style “don’t say gay” bill in Texas during the next legislative session, according to a Monday campaign email.

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

After 16 hurt in 'Epic Easter' concert shooting, Dallas chief says city needs better permit laws

FORT WORTH, Texas — The chief of Dallas police emphasized the need for better oversight of event permits during a news conference Monday about a shooting at a permit-less weekend concert that left one dead and 16 injured.

Tribune News Service · Apr 4, 2022

Mac Engel: It's official: This is the worst Cowboys offseason of the century

FORT WORTH, Texas — Led by the Alan Greenspan of the NFL, Stephen Jones, the Dallas Cowboys have decided Dak Prescott is Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes combined.

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2022

Arizona star Bennedict Mathurin ‘does not recall’ touching TCU showgirl but wants to apologize

FORT WORTH, Texas — Arizona athletic director Dave Heeke issued a statement Wednesday on the postgame incident involving Wildcats standout Bennedict Mathurin and a TCU showgirl.

Tribune News Service · Mar 23, 2022

Texas governor signs disaster declaration for 16 counties ripped apart by tornadoes, storms

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a disaster declaration for 16 counties where severe storms swept through Monday, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022

‘Plenty of damage’: Severe storms leave wake of destruction from Dallas-Fort Worth to Red River

DALLAS — Officials in Jacksboro, Texas, surveyed the damage Tuesday after a suspected tornado Monday afternoon ripped through the city, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022

Texas' Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties under tornado warning; damage reported in Jack, Montague counties

DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Cynthia M. Allen: One silver lining in the cloud of pandemic schooling: support for school choice is soaring

FORT WORTH, Texas — If you’ve paid any attention to the very public, very divisive debates over school administration, policy, curricula and academic outcomes — in Fort Worth, Southlake and several other parts of the country — you know that we have yet to experience all of the aftershocks from…

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022

Evacuations underway as swift wildfire burns in 2 North Texas counties

FORT WORTH, Texas — Separate wildfires swept through grass in three North Texas counties on Sunday, and authorities ordered people in their path to evacuate.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022