Photo by Camilo Diaz Jr. Written by Dallas Documenter Jenna Stephenson The Dallas city manager’s proposed 2025-2026 fiscal budget includes $853,000 to outfit 50 sanitation vehicles with cameras that ...

Dallas residents attend the District 7 Budget Town Hall meeting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center on Tuesday, ...

Explainer A data-driven story that provides background, definition and detail on a specific topic. Summer break in Dallas ISD stretches a full 11 weeks — this year from May 24 to August 11. Many West ...

Dixon's Annual Back to School Bash will provide school uniforms, calculator training, music, food, games, and prizes for students and their families to kick off the school year.

Janie Cisneros credits her neighborhood-based activism to serendipity. She is the leader of Singleton United/Unidos, a newly established neighborhood association in West Dallas, fighting for clean air ...

Clinical psychologist Mara Estrada is preparing to see her third client of the day at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand in West Dallas. She sets up her laptop in the mental health care office. Children’s ...

As plans for a 400-foot office tower on the edge of West Dallas wound their way through contentious community meetings and hard-to-follow public hearings, John Devine knew there was a better way. “I ...

Since opening for the 2021 school year, the West Dallas STEM School has balanced four major stakeholders — the West Dallas community, Toyota USA Foundation, Dallas ISD, and SMU’s Annette Caldwell ...

A rendering of the future Forest Theater, provided by the Forest Forward team. For the first time in its history, the Forest Theater on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is owned by a Black-led entity.

Beverly Thomas is 73 years old and has lived in the Bonton neighborhood of South Dallas almost her entire life. She’s never owned a car. “The thing is, I’ve never learned how to drive,” Thomas says.

The future STEM school in West Dallas named its first principal this month, more than a year before the school is expected to open. Marion Jackson, who has worked in Dallas ISD for nearly 15 years, ...

The original Billy Earl Dade school sits at the corner of Malcolm X and Park Row, and has been vacant since 2013. Photo by Sujata Dand The original Billy Earl Dade Elementary School, a historic Black ...