Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle

The Dallas branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement contacted Denton Mayor Gerard Hudspeth last week to set up a meeting with city leaders to discuss ICE’s 287(g) program that could give Denton police the authority to screen people in custody for immigration offenses.

Denton Mayor Gerard Hudspeth traveled to Austin on Friday to testify in support of the GOP’s rare mid-decade congressional redistricting efforts, which would add five Republican-leaning seats to the U.S. House of Representatives.

The area had become “wonderful and a little nature preserve with 12 different species of bird, fish, the beavers, really diverse,” said Ricky Barnett, who lives nearby and took his children to enjoy it like other nearby neighbors.

Texas grocery company H-E-B is planning not one but two stores for Denton.

The city of Denton has taken the next step to prevent a wastewater treatment plant from being built on former state Rep. Jim Horn’s property near the Rainbow Valley community on the outskirts of Denton and Sanger.

It’s been nearly a year since Denton adopted a Climate Action Plan to reach net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. The City Council-approved plan looks at communitywide emissions that could be avoided, reduced or replaced in three main areas: transportation, building and land use.

According to Tuesday’s staff presentation, $27 million of the funds will be used to supplement projects from the 2019 general obligation bond election, and some of it will go toward replacing old and adding new infrastructure due to growth.

The Denton Community Shelter will no longer be a 24/7 overnight emergency shelter for the rising homeless population in Denton County, except during inclement weather events, the shelter’s operator announced last week.

Friends and former campers remember Jane Ragsdale, who attended the camp, then became its leader.

Kenny Hinkes had purchased the red Cessna aircraft in 2019 to teach his son Jack how to fly and figured it would be easy to find a place to store it. A real estate developer and a pilot with nearly 50 years’ experience at the time, Hinkes was surprised to learn that there was a nationwide hangar shortage for general aviation aircraft.

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.