Atmos Rate Increase: What $13.37 More a Month Means

Blue flame on a gas stove burner, the kind of household use billed under the Atmos rate increase

Bills rendered on or after Oct. 1 carry Atmos Mid-Tex’s new delivery rates: a $24.35 customer charge and $1.03839 per Ccf. Atmos puts the average residential bill $13.37 higher. City records show how the $260.5 million settlement was reached, and our table shows the cost at 20, 60 or 100 Ccf.

Triple T Ranch: What Sanger’s 1,061-Home Plan Would Allow

Sunset over Lake Ray Roberts in North Texas, near the land proposed for the Triple T Ranch development

Sanger’s council tabled the Triple T Ranch requests until Jan. 19. The packet shows up to 1,061 homes on 387.515 acres near Lake Ray Roberts, two of every three on lots of 6,000 square feet or less, plus a $75.5 million improvement district. The council packet spells out what the plan would allow.

Brooks & Dunn Close Neon Moon Tour With Two Nights at Dickies Arena

Ronnie Dunn sings and plays electric guitar beside Kix Brooks in a black cowboy hat under orange stage lights at a 2009 Brooks & Dunn concert

FORT WORTH. Brooks & Dunn bring the Neon Moon Tour to Dickies Arena on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10, the last two dates on the tour’s announced 2026 schedule. Both shows start at 7 p.m., with doors at 6 p.m., and Tucker Wetmore and Caylee Hammack open both nights. It is a big … Read more

TEFA Students by District: Dallas ISD Tops 3,300

Interior of the Texas State Capitol dome in Austin, where lawmakers created the accounts now held by TEFA students

The Comptroller’s Oct. 1 count shows 3,312 TEFA students living in Dallas ISD, second only to Houston ISD, with Plano, Richardson, Northwest and Frisco up about 50% since July. Here are the North Texas district numbers and what they do and do not measure.

Dallas County Prop A: What the Homelessness Tax Costs You

Stone facade of the Dallas County Records Building, where commissioners called the Dallas County Prop A election

Dallas County Prop A asks voters to keep a 24.865-cent rate for homelessness, mental health and housing programs. County taxes rise either way. The vote decides whether the median homestead pays $666.52 or $602.19, and whether about $102.9 million goes to those programs.