Haley Samsel | Fort Worth Report
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The federal government has revoked visas for 27 international students at the University of Texas at Arlington, university officials announced Thursday. The university has the third-highest international student population in the state, according to Open Doors.
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The charity, which operates the Texas Office for Refugees, filed a notice March 10 with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification, also known as WARN. The federal government requires employers to give 60 calendar days’ advance notice of a mass layoff to affected employees and government entities.
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Several board members of the Tarrant Regional Water District cited ongoing safety concerns at LaGrave.
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Despite public and private fundraising efforts, Fort Worth is still struggling to find enough dollars to build its long-awaited “trash wheel” — a water wheel capable of removing up to 50,000 pounds of floating waste each day from the Trinity River.
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Residents suing the city of Arlington over a 2023 vote to expand natural gas drilling will be allowed to take part of their lawsuit back to trial.
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Fort Worth will spend $500,000 to assess environmental contamination at sites across the city, including the former Butler Place public housing complex and the historic R. Vickery Elementary School.
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TotalEnergies, facing intense scrutiny from residents, can move forward with fracking expansion following Arlington City Council’s unanimous vote.
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A decade after LaGrave Field hosted its last Fort Worth Cats game, Tarrant Regional Water District board members will vote on whether to demolish the baseball park as part of the agency’s plans for Panther Island.
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Of the nearly 50 water systems across Texas that reported levels of “forever chemicals” higher than the federal government’s new limits, six are in the Fort Worth area.
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Inside Fort Worth’s December 2022 grand opening of a wastewater treatment plant, the mood was celebratory.
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Following increased reports of missed trash collections in Fort Worth, city staff are proposing revisions to their $479 million contract with Waste Management that would no longer require the company to hire minority- and women-owned businesses.
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High wind speeds couldn’t keep Arlington’s new food delivery drones — or the city’s ambitions to become a transportation innovation hub — from taking off Wednesday.