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Fort Worth’s hulking former Ku Klux Klan auditorium, once a stage for white supremacy, is inching closer to an entirely different future as the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. Organizers say the reparative-justice arts hub is designed to flip the script on a symbol of terror and turn it into a home fo

Fort Worth Police Chief Eddie Garcia said officers were “wrong” in how they described the limits of lawful speech during a viral confrontation with Christian street preachers outside Trinity Pride Fest. He also said the department has begun First Amendment refresher training across its ranks. Garcia addressed the...

Fort Worth ISD named a new interim principal at Western Hills High School last week. The educator who was originally slated to fill the role is suing the district in federal court. On July 8, FWISD announced that Lucio Rodriquez had been tapped to serve as the interim principal at...

Tarrant County’s governing body will continue meeting once monthly despite calls from residents to increase the frequency of meetings. The commissioners court is scheduled to meet 14 times from October to September of next year, with one meeting per month planned and additional sessions in August and September to accom

A pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle on Interstate 35W late Monday in south Fort Worth, police said. Officers were called to the southbound lanes of 3300 South Freeway about 11:45 p.m. The person who’d been hit died at the scene, according to police. They will be publicly identified by the Tarrant County Medica

Karen Molinar, the former superintendent of the Fort Worth school district, will receive at least $360,000 in settlement pay. Molinar’s settlement is equal to the sum of one year’s salary and benefits, according to the separation agreement released by Fort Worth ISD officials on Tuesday in response to an open records r

After briefly sunny skies, an active storm pattern is expected to continue through parts of North Texas Tuesday afternoon until Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. Residents can expect thunderstorms scattered across the region, according to NWS meteorologist Miles Langfeld. While there are

For most of his professional life, Vy Ton was solving problems thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Today, he’s solving them over glowing charcoal grills. The 34-year-old owner of Ichiro Izakaya, the acclaimed Near Southside restaurant known for its yakitori skewers and other small plates of meticulously gril

The CDC issued a health advisory after U.S. cyclospora parasite cases surged to nearly 7,000 across 30 states—more than 10 times last year's total. Health officials suspect lettuce or leafy greens are making people sick, but they have not yet pinpointed a specific producer, vendor, or source. Fast-food chains...

Triple-digit temperatures have nothing on this week’s Fort Worth restaurant news. Learning of the return of homegrown bakery J. Rae’s to Cowtown felt like Christmas morning in the middle of summer, earning a top spot in this roundup of can’t-miss dining updates. We also caught up with the owner of Duong DeVille as she