Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle

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.

The Greater Denton Arts Council wants to bring a vending machine to Denton to offer local artists exposure. The Art-o-mat, a retired cigarette vending machine converted to sell a cigarette pack-sized piece of art for only $5, would be one of only a couple of hundred in the United States.

Denton’s election filing period ended Monday with only one new candidate added in the last month of filing in the crowded race for Paul Meltzer’s District 3 City Council seat.

The city audit, which looked at operations at the shelter from 2023 and 2024, offered 34 recommendations for improvement, many of which Sassenus and staffers have been addressing for several months.

Late Monday afternoon, a three-member panel of the Board of Ethics dismissed Hudspeth’s complaint at a special-called meeting, pointing out that the benefit is available to all DME customers with solar panels and not only to Beck.

After a Denton City Council decision on Tuesday, city staff will use money earmarked for future construction on Bonnie Brae Street to help cover millions in taxpayer funding for improvements to the animal shelter and Fire Stations 5 and 6, which have exceeded the amounts voters approved in the 2023 bond.

The petition to recall Denton City Council member Brandon Chase McGee has failed after picking up steam in early November.