As new private companies gear up to take over CPS cases in North Texas, foster families are grappling with damage done by the last contractor.

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

How a rubble-ridden lot in Oak Cliff became a safe place for children who do far more than play.

Dallas used pandemic relief funds to fix houses and upgrade infrastructure in Oak Cliff and elsewhere. Years later, some residents ask what went wrong.

After two deaths, the state says third-party case managers are failing foster kids. What happens in this courtroom helps explain why.

Inside the grassroots push to educate homeowners about a simple tool—the homestead exemption—that can help them afford to stay in their homes amid rising taxes.

Inside the grassroots push to educate homeowners about a simple tool—the homestead exemption—that can help them afford to stay in their homes amid rising taxes.

How Dallas’ most storied neighborhood morphed from a collection of artists, musicians, and renegades into a place where you can take Mom for mimosas.

After yesterday's marathon meeting, we had some questions about the City Hall discussion. Then we found out this.

DA Henry Wade sent him to the electric chair. Today his son wept as county commissioners cleared his name.

In Dallas, long known as "the buckle of the Bible belt," churches are considering turning land and buildings into affordable housing. Charlotte, North Carolina, shows us how to pull it off.

A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal homelessness policy.

The Dallas tax rolls this month received an enormous bump, which may spell trouble for 20 aging apartment complexes around Interstate 635.

Plano, Farmers Branch, Highland Park, and Irving are all weighing leaving the transit agency. Before the matter lands on May ballots, here's how that has gone historically.

Volara in Oak Cliff, once the most violent apartments in Dallas, last year became a tale of success. In 2025, police say it has returned to its old ways. What happened?

The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to formally explore alternatives to the current City Hall building designed by I.M. Pei, with City Manager Kimberly...

The story of how Forest Forward came to understand the significance of inviting a national chain into its ambitious redevelopment of the Forest Theater.

The Dallas Area Transit Alliance launched right as some of the public transportation agency’s suburban partners began pushing to defund it.

Despite being in business for years and offering live music for just as long, the owners of two businesses, one in Deep Ellum and another in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District, say the city recently inf...

Suburban officials in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have enacted rules aimed at curtailing a sweeping new state law to allow more apartments.

State lawmakers passed a bill that makes it legal to build multifamily or mixed-use developments in areas zoned for commercial use. How will this change Dallas-Fort Worth?

County officials are finally paying close attention to the Esperanza neighborhood in Far North Dallas, beginning with a new vision for Dobie Pre-K.

A pair of public-private tools are driving the production of most new affordable housing in Dallas. So why is Dallas City Hall growing concerned?

The Lab Report is co-founded by longtime local journalists Sharon Grigsby and Matt Goodman. This is why the Child Poverty Action Lab is investing in a new publication.

The district attorney believes too many people are being taken to jail who need help more than punishment. Doing something about it is a different story.

The Lab Report's first story is an inside look at how nonprofit service providers in North Texas have weathered half a year of 'unprecedented' funding cuts.

Helping the city understand itself.

Helping the city understand itself.