MESQUITE (WBAP/KLIF)- Thirteen North Texas cities end their decades long water contract plan for a more reasonably priced rate structure from the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD). These cities, north and east of Dallas, were on a ‘take or pay’ water rate structure, that’s been in effect since 1953. The system used the year of…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating individuals who may have information related to protesters who were injured during protests over the summer. District Attorney John Creuzot said on Thursday that he is looking into potential crimes by Police related to use of force in…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Metroplex experienced an uptick of almost 1,600 new Coronavirus cases, Wednesday. Tarrant county led the way in newly confirmed positive tests of Coronavirus with 641. Dallas county issued 624 new positives, Collin county 132, and Denton county 156 new cases. North Texas as a whole is approaching 195,000 positive Coronavirus tests with…… MORE
HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF) – State leaders in Texas continue to discourage cities from defunding Police departments. The City of Austin recently allocated $150 million away from Police. Governor Abbott continues efforts to make it tough on cities that defund their Police departments. He said Wednesday in Houston that if Austin doesn’t change it’s approach to policing, the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Council unanimously approved the 2020 Fair Park Master Plan Update on Wednesday, which outlines the vision and future planned development for Fair Park. The announcement comes on the heels of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board approval this past summer. The Master Plan Update was presented by Fair Park First,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Texas Education Agency has selected Dallas ISD for it’s rapid Covid-19 testing program. Robyn Harris with Dallas ISD said the district is getting 15,000 rapid antigen tests and they will start by testing student athletes every week before practices, and eventually include other students and staff. “Our student athletes have the greatest interaction,”…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth police have released a photo of a man who they say shot and wounded a man near a parking lot in the Stockyards area two weeks ago. The incident happened overnight October 11 in the 2500 block of Rodeo Plaza. Police say the victim was among a group of…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- Tarrant County Elections officials are re-scanning about one-third of the mail in ballots after an issue with the ballot machines. Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the electronic scanners rejected thousands of mail in ballots because it was unable to read the barcodes. “We scan the ballots in and the scanner…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Tuesday that an alleged election fraud scheme exposed in a Project Veritas video is under review by investigators from his Election Fraud Unit. The video shows Project Veritas meeting with Raquel Rodriguez who admits to ballot harvesting. In the video, she claims to be a consultant for GOP…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Biden-Harris campaign will be in North Texas later this week ahead of the November 3 Presidential election. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris will visit the region on Friday, according to her campaign staff and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. “She will be coming in to North Texas and we’re glad…… MORE
