For every $1,000 increase in the price of a home, 2,800 households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area are priced out of the market. With housing affordability on track to be…
Origin Bank has announced the promotion of Ryan Frahm to Regional Production Manager, Senior Vice President – Texas. Frahm has nearly 20 years of mortgage…
Council member Gyna Bivens put it bluntly: “What are we doing here?” Bivens represents east Fort Worth, where flooding regularly traps cars and leads to…
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In the latest installment of our occasional conversations with Fort Worth newsmakers, Brandon Bennett, director of the Code Compliance Department, discusses the role of code compliance…
In April, Fort Worth resident Joshua Youngblood planned to take his 4-year-old daughter to ride the Forest Park miniature train. On the first Saturday of May,…
All the parent-teacher association had to do was start a reading program for Van Zandt-Guinn Elementary. That’s all that mattered for Wallace Bridges, the president and…
Stephanie Love was tasked with going before the State Board of Education earlier this month and convincing it that her education model can change the lives…
Macy Thiebaud remembers how nervous she felt before stepping into a Kids Who Care rehearsal for the first time. The 2012 original production of Freedom Bound was the then 8-year-old Thiebauds’s first time in a large theater, but it wouldn’t be her last. “Everyone was so welcoming,” she recalled. “They just made me feel that…
In the latest installment of our occasional conversations with Fort Worth newsmakers, Tyler Long, founder and president of Trinity Pride of Greater Fort Worth, spoke with arts and culture editor Marcheta Fornoff about what to expect at this year’s event. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. To hear more, please listen to…
Since its creation 70 years ago, Interstate 30 West has divided Fort Worth’s mostly white and affluent neighborhoods from its racially diverse and lower-income neighborhoods. Now, with…
In the latest installment of our occasional conversations with Fort Worth newsmakers, Larry Autrey, CEO of Fort Worth-based accounting firm Whitley Penn, speaks with business editor Bob…
In the latest installment of our occasional conversations with Fort Worth newsmakers, Dr. Paul Gray, a surgeon at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, discusses hernias — what they are, where…
The elephant in the room at the Tarrant Regional Water District’s June 21 board meeting wasn’t included in the official agenda, but that didn’t stop activists from discussing former employee Shanna…
Empty turtle shells. Beer bottles. A duck with a missing foot. Half-buried tires. This is the scene residents living near Lake Como described after a construction crew hired by the city…
For Dave Fulson, protecting the trees of east Fort Worth goes beyond the benefits of improving air quality or flood control. Maintaining the area’s tree canopy keeps Fort Worth tied to…
The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine hosted its first Latinos en Medicina summer camp for children ages 10-13 until June 24. The three-day summer camp exposed the children to multiple facets of the medical industry, from viewing cells under a…
Northside resident Gerald De La Paz, 62, grew up down the street from Marine Park. He was there when Marine Skate Park opened in 2013. “We almost always have a bunch of kids here almost every night,” De La Paz…
Fort Worth resident David Nava, 14, had never played tennis before he joined the McLeland Tennis Center’s Junior Summer Camp. He wants to join his high school tennis team this year, whether he ends up at Paschal High School or…
Tarrant County is one of the fastest-growing markets in the country. With that growth comes demand, and demand means home prices are rising locally coupled with a 40-year inflation high that…
A titan of Fort Worth business, civic and educational institutions has left the stage. John V. Roach, 83, who led RadioShack though its most profitable and influential era, helped bring Warren…
As Ukrainians fight and die for democracy, Russia is arresting its own citizens who are protesting the war and threatening prison for journalists who report the truth. The attempt to crush…
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In search of a better shave, this local entrepreneur designed a cutting-edge version of a classic product. Meet Patrick Coddou, the aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur who started a new, single blade razor company called Supply. Patrick…
Innovation is taking to the skies…in the form of drone delivery of essential products. Wing is a drone delivery service that is currently delivering first aid, pet medications and ice cream…
When it comes to putting smiles on faces, John Merris knows a thing or two about how to do that. Whether it is sitting around a campfire, kayaking on the lake,…