Fort Worth TX

It looks like a whole lot of people had the same idea to get way out of Texas before the big ice/snowstorm hit. The result was an insane amount of traffic at a standstill outside of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Thursday night (January 22). Memories of the 2021 Texas Freeze...

APEX, N.C. (RNS) — Judging from the crowds who lined up for miles on the side of the road to greet them and hand them flowers, oranges and bottled water, the simple act of walking for peace sparked nothing short of reverence. The post Thousands show their respect for Buddhist monks on a Walk for Peace appeared first...

Planning a North Texas road trip? These four local restaurants just landed on Yelp’s Top 100 list for 2026.

Before Western settlement, grasslands and prairies stretched over much of Texas and the broader continent of North America—ecosystems shaped by Native American activity, cleansing fire, and grazing megafauna like bison. “But they’ve been lost—overgrazed, plowed, developed—and forgotten, and only little patches of...

A Fort Worth boy is recovering in the hospital after he was shot inside a home on Tuesday, in what police say happened after he somehow got access to a gun stored in a safe. Officers arrived to find the child with a gunshot wound to the lower torso, and a 911 caller told dispatchers the boy was “turning blue and...

Fort Worth Independent School District trustees have signed off on a pay plan that will put many teachers at six struggling campuses on six-figure base salaries for the 2026-27 school year, a dramatic bet that bigger paychecks can keep veteran educators in the classrooms that need them most. Under the...

This is a crime wrap-up from Jan. 12 to 14. On Jan. 12, officers arrested an unaffiliated person who violated a criminal trespass warning, UTA Police Capt. Mike McCord said in an email. He was taken to the Arlington Police Department jail. Criminal trespass at a higher education institution with...

Nobel Prize Peace nominee and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Opal Lee is the newest figure added to the "Barbie Inspiring Women" line. Lee is 99, and her Barbie sports curly silver hair and glasses. She also wears pants, an “Opal’s Walk for Freedom” T-shirt and tennis shoes.

Texas brisket isn’t just food—it’s a way of life. The state has turned slow-smoked beef into an art form, with pitmasters dedicating entire lifetimes to perfecting their craft. From legendary joints that have been smoking meat since before your grandparents were born to newer spots pushing the boundaries of what...

Friday’s morning rush on Interstate 35W south of Fort Worth suddenly turned into a slow crawl when a power line dropped across the highway near Burleson, shutting down all lanes in both directions. The line stretched over the main lanes and the frontage roads near County Road 810, just south of Farm Road 917,...