Fort Worth Report

Days before the May 3 election, sitting Fort Worth City Council members have continued to outpace their challengers in fundraising, with Mayor Mattie Parker maintaining more than $1 million in campaign cash as of April 25.

Fort Worth officials are tentatively planning to adopt a general fund budget of $1.097 billion, an increase of $40.2 million, or 3.81%, over last year’s budget, city staff said Tuesday.

Fort Worth ISD believes it isn’t at risk of a state takeover, district officials told the Fort Worth Report after the April 24 release of new Texas Education Agency ratings.

Fort Worth Opera is lifting its voice at Bass Performance Hall with its first full-scale production at the iconic downtown venue since 2019.

In addition to tending to minor cuts and scratches, she and other nurses in the church are often a resource for general education on diseases. Congregants in Campbell’s church have her on speed dial, she said, for support or referrals for other kinds of professional help.

Fourth-grade teacher Danyelle Liggins noticed a pattern as she scrubbed through previous Fort Worth ISD school board meeting footage.

Fort Worth and Arlington — Tarrant County’s tourism hotspots — plan to work together to study the economic benefits of a proposed high-speed rail route to Dallas.

Council members unanimously adopted a resolution April 22 stating the city will contribute up to $6.5 million for the cowgirl museum’s growth plan — if and when the funds become available.

For the first time since 2013, a new face at City Hall will represent the majority of Fort Worth’s easternmost neighborhoods, including the historic Stop Six area.

Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages’ planned $168 million North Texas expansion just became, in the parlance of the soft drink’s longtime slogan, the real thing.

The USS Fort Worth is entering “a new and final chapter,” as the Navy continues a yearslong push toward taking all of its shoreside combat ships out of service and investing the resources elsewhere, the ship’s commander told the USS Fort Worth’s Support Committee in an April 7, 2025, letter provided to the Report.

He and 20 colleagues took pride in keeping students safe — and keeping costs low. But over the years, Davidson told trustees during a March 25 board meeting, things changed. Morale dipped. Staffing thinned. Buses weren’t arriving on time.