Fort Worth City Council

Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to accept a $650,000 settlement with Blue Sky Surveying & Mapping Feb. 25, ending a multiyear dispute over the accuracy of a survey the city relied on for its new City Hall project.

Fort Worth City Council member Charles Lauersdorf learned his lesson on zoning laws last year.

When Fort Worth City Council member Gyna Bivens started receiving complaints from residents about extended cable outages in their neighborhoods, she knew she could get answers.

For the first time in more than a decade, Fort Worth officially has a new city manager. The city welcomed incoming City Manager Jesus “Jay” Chapa to his new role with a swearing-in ceremony followed immediately by a City Council meeting at old City Hall on Tuesday.

One week before volunteers conduct their annual, federally mandated count of homeless living in Tarrant and Parker counties, Fort Worth officials unveiled a handful of new projects aimed at improving the city’s response to homelessness.

All 11 Fort Worth City Council seats are up for election this year. And residents are guaranteed at least one new face on council, after District 5’s Gyna Bivens announced she isn’t running for reelection after 12 years in the seat.

Council member Chris Nettles appears to have called Mayor Mattie Parker and other council members racist in a leaked audio clip from December 2022.

The moves are the latest step in an ongoing process to establish a fire-based EMS system in the city.

Political divisions and concerns over a legal battle punctuated heated debate over whether the church could build housing for trafficking survivors.

The vote comes after a week of controversy, with two council members saying the day before that they wanted to restart the hiring process.

One day before Fort Worth City Council will vote on hiring a new city manager, council members Chris Nettles and Jared Williams have called on their colleagues to delay the vote and restart the hiring process.

City Council members will vote on the last step to formally ban the use of game machines typically found in gas stations and convenience stores across the city during their Dec. 10 meeting.