Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle

The first inclination that downtown businesses weren’t interested in raising taxes to pay for the Downtown Denton Ambassador Program appeared on social media in March, shortly after news dropped that the Denton City Council had asked staff to gauge interest in doing so.

Unofficial results showed Rumohr with a commanding lead over Planning and Zoning Chair Margie Ellis.

Those were words that members of Pridenton, a local LGBTQ+ advocacy group, were hoping to hear from Hudspeth again Tuesday night to kick off Pride Month. Hudspeth gave the proclamation for his first June as mayor in 2021, then gave a similar one in June 2022.

For nearly a year, neighbors in northeast Denton have been working to preserve the Hartlee Field area, with its historic World War II hangars, from development by turning it into a state park.

Two and a half years after its passage, the Denton City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night to repeal the low-level marijuana decriminalization ordinance that city officials refused to enforce.

The City Council is likely to repeal Denton’s low-level marijuana decriminalization ordinance on Tuesday, which has never been enforced since more than 32,000 voters passed it in 2022, in the city’s largest-ever turnout for a municipal election.

Early voting kicks off Tuesday morning, and voters can cast their ballots at polling locations countywide for Denton City Council seats in Districts 2 and 3.

Mayor Gerard Hudspeth is serving his third and final term in office. But the end of his municipal run is on the horizon. He is expected to leave office in May 2026.

A forensic nurse death investigator for Denton County, went to get her thermometer out of her bag to check a body surface temperature — only for the batteries to fall to the floor.

Denton’s first H-E-B store will be located at Hillwood’s Landmark development, on more than 20 acres at the northwest corner of Interstate 35W and Robson Ranch Road.

A petition to “oppose the tiny home village next to Krum” appeared on Change.org last week, and in just a few days, it’s garnered hundreds of signatures, a majority of them residents from the Krum area.

McAdams Haven, a new affordable multifamily housing project, seeks to address a “deep need for supportive housing in our community,” George Ferrie, board president of the Denton Affordable Housing Corporation, told the Denton City Council last week.