Giant Saharan Dust Plume to Paint North Texas Skies Orange This Weekend
Expect to breathe in some dusty, African air when you step outside this weekend. A Saharan dust plume is traveling more than 7,000 miles to touch down in Dallas. The cloud is a bone dry, dusty mass of...
View ArticleRisking Fines From the City, OurCalling Helps Shelter the Homeless
OurCalling has been helping people experiencing homelessness for over a decade.
View ArticleNew Rapid COVID-19 Tests Help Get Homeless Into Dallas Shelters
OurCalling's facility at 1702 Caesar Chavez Blvd. is the main site administering the tests to Dallas' homeless individuals seeking shelter. Tests are being administered Monday through Friday from 9...
View ArticleWith the Lights Out, North Texas Restaurants Become De Facto Warming Stations
With many restaurants closed, lines at drive-thru joints stretched into the street and people huddled in the few open places with heat.
View ArticleDallas Residents Defy Winter Storm to Help Neighbors in Need
Warmer weather is supposed to make things better in the coming days, but local attorney Mark Melton thinks there will still be plenty who need help after.
View ArticleBoil Advisories, Busted Pipes and Low Pressure: Water Problems Hit North...
Dallas and some other North Texas cities have asked residents to conserve water as systems experienced low levels of storage in their tanks.
View ArticleAs Freeze Thaws, North Texans Worry about Cost of Winter Storm Damage
Power has been restored for most Texans, but the winter storm is shaping up to be one of the costliest in the state's history.
View ArticleDallas Restaurants Feel the Sting of Losing Valentine's Day and Fat Tuesday
CocoAndre, the family-owned chocolate shop in the Bishop Arts District, has been open for business only eight days this month. COVID forced them to close the last week of January, so they set their...
View ArticleEaux Neaux! Crawfish Farmers Worry the Recent Cold Snap May Have Been a Killer.
Despite a great crop of mudbugs last year, COVID-19 restrictions crippled the industry as a whole; restaurants were slapped with COVID mandates, and packaging the crustaceans to-go was difficult. Last...
View ArticleAfter Winter Storm, $1 Billion Class Action Lawsuit Puts Heat on Griddy
Lisa Khoury claims her Griddy bill reached $9,340 between Feb. 13 and Feb. 19, according to a class action lawsuit.
View ArticleThe City Cracked Down on Camp Rhonda. Now its Homeless Residents Have to...
The camp was birthed from encampment resolutions, or sweeps, that were taking place in downtown. During the sweeps, people’s belongings, including ID’s, birth certificates and other important...
View ArticleA Local Cattle Rancher's Winter Storm: Cows on Ice, Abandoned Calves and a...
Last year when we met Brandon Howley at Happy Hollow Ranch in Willis Point, the birds were chirping, a red fox burrowed in the pasture and cattle hid from the sun under trees lush with leaves. Howley...
View ArticleNew City Program Can Help Dallas Homeowners with Storm Damage
City Council members said they wanted to make sure the help was distributed equitably.
View ArticleERCOT: A Policy Failure Through Lack of Imagination
A lack of imagination caused the ERCOT grid failure. No one imagined a weeklong extreme cold spell, despite Hollywood blockbusters imagining extreme weather events and much, much worse. Neither the...
View ArticleAfter a Rough Year on Farms and Ranches, a Texas Brewery Offers Help
Texas farmers and ranchers have had a year. Whether they supplied restaurants with local produce or welcomed families to pick their own buckets full, even green pastures and rows of blackberries...
View ArticleWith a Record Number of Homeless in North Texas, Black People Remain...
The findings of the census were presented during the 2021 State of Homelessness Address on Tuesday.
View ArticleDallas Animal Services Doesn’t Cry Wolf. When They Ask for Help, They Need It.
The shelter takes in 60-100 animals a day. In the first week of June, they took in 472 dogs and cats.
View ArticleERCOT Warns Power Outages Possible This Week If Folks Don’t Conserve Energy...
It turns out that arctic winter storms aren’t the only times Texans have to worry about the state’s power grid crapping out. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas asked state residents on Monday to...
View ArticleERCOT Asks Texans to Conserve. But What Happened to February's Costly Energy...
Months after February's deadly winter storm, questions remain surrounding who will foot consumers' sky-high energy bills.
View ArticleStemmons Freeway Has the Deadliest Stretch of Road in Texas
A quarter of the fatal accidents were drunk driving-related, according to the report. Additionally, the report found that Dallas is home to three of ten deadliest five-mile stretches in Texas.
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