Plano TX

Halfway between Dallas and Houston, off Interstate 45 in Fairfield, sits a buffet restaurant that’s been feeding hungry travelers and locals for decades. Sam’s Original Restaurant isn’t your typical highway stop—it’s a family-run spot where the food tastes like Sunday dinner at your grandmother’s house. With an all-you

A Dallas high school principal removed from a school after a racial controversy last fall has been appointed to lead another campus. Award-winning principal Chandra Hooper Barnett was named the new leader of Lincoln High School, a magnet school in southern Dallas whose student population is more than 70% Black. It come

TEXAS — One person was killed after a fiery crash involving a three-wheel motorcycle and an SUV late Thursday night in Dallas, according to police. The crash happened just before 11:30 p.m. on eastbound Belt Line Road at Meandering Way. Dallas police said an SUV was stopped at a traffic light when it was rear-ended […]

Czechia to host Community Training Session ahead of World Cup

There are nine spellers left out of 247 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and those nine include Avishka Dudala, an eighth grader at Rogers Middle School in Prosper. Avishka is competing in the Bee for the second time. If she wins, it’ll be the second year in a row that a North Texas student has taken home the very

On a 16-acre slice of Carrollton, the first wave of homes at Carrol Crest is almost ready for move-in. Six of the first nine houses in this 200-home, roughly $160 million community by InTown Homes are nearing completion, with more than 100 customizable floor plans on tap that span about 1,750 to 3,050 square feet. Buye

Chen's Kitchen is now open along Eldorado Parkway in McKinney. (Colby Farr/Community Impact) Chen’s Kitchen is now open in McKinney, a restaurant employee confirmed. The restaurant serves authentic Chinese dishes with fresh ingredients, according to its website. Chen’s Kitchen sells a variety of appetizers and main dis

A fantastically over-the-top ice cream shop has made its Texas debut in Plano: Sloan's Ice Cream, a Florida-based chain, has opened a location at Village 121, a bustling center at 8315 Preston Rd. #300, where it's scooping fun flavors in a space drenched in Instagrammable candy-colored hues. Sloan's was founded...

EagleNXT opened March 27 in Allen. (Mary Katherine Shapiro/Community Impact) Drone manufacturing company EagleNXT's new Allen headquarters is now open. EagleNXT officials celebrated the grand opening of the headquarters facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony May 27. A closer look. The facility will manufacture MicaSen

WYLIE, Texas — Wylie ISD has accepted the resignation of a high school principal after controversy struck one of the district’s campuses on Feb. 2. Wylie East High School Principal Tiffany Doolan told the district on May 26 that she would step down after 18 years with the district.