The Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering returns to the Fort Worth Stockyards Oct. 23 to 25 with ranch rodeo at Cowtown Coliseum, a chuck wagon cook-off, cowboy poetry and a Saturday night Western swing dance. Here is an NLN day-by-day planner, what is ticketed and recent champions.
Tarrant County’s approved FY2027 budget totals $834,076,906, about $10.6 million more than last year, on an 18.60-cent rate that sits just under no-new-revenue. Departments asked for $985.9 million. The budget book shows what got cut, what grew and why median and average homes move in opposite directions.
DFW Airport raised every parking price on Oct. 1. A day in a terminal garage is now $40 by card, up from $32, with a $3 TollTag discount. We priced a three-day trip and traced the increase to a $1.622 billion budget and new Terminal F debt.
A day after Gov. Greg Abbott told TCEQ to halt permits for data centers, a $430 million Colovore data center was registered for Fort Worth’s Denton County side. Here is what the pause covers, what the state filing means and the dates to watch.
FORT WORTH, The City of Fort Worth has set Nov. 10, 2026, for a special called work session at 4 p.m. on the Data Center & Infrastructure Commission report and a 6 p.m. council meeting that serves as the first of two required public hearings toward a data-center development moratorium, following Aug. 11 actions that … Read more
FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s board approved a fiscal year 2027 budget of about $204.5 million in spending on Monday around Sept. 22, 2026, cutting roughly $17.8 million from the FY2026 adopted plan while still advancing a Trinity Railway Express double-track project and a 2.1-mile TEXRail extension into the Near Southside/Medical District with a Mistletoe Boulevard … Read more
FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026 operating budget plans $203.3 million in operating revenue and $174.1 million in operating expenses, with sales-tax receipts covering about 59% of that revenue base, according to the agency’s FY26 Budget Book. Fort Worth sales-tax revenue alone is budgeted at $118.9 million. Combined sales-tax contributions from Grapevine and … Read more
DALLAS. Josh Weathers State Fair night is Friday at Fair Park. The Fort Worth voice headlines the Chevrolet Main Stage at the State Fair of Texas on Oct. 2, a free-with-admission show in the middle of the fair’s 24-day run that gives DFW fans a local-rooted concert without a separate ticket. Showtime is 7:45 p.m., … Read more
FORT WORTH — Fort Worth City Council unanimously tabled a proposed 50% property tax abatement for Edged Data Centers’ planned $1 billion facility on about 186 acres at Veale Ranch during its March 31, 2026 meeting, after council members and residents pressed for clearer local benefits, noise and water limits, and grid oversight. The item, … Read more
FORT WORTH, Texas — The largest slice of Fort Worth’s voter-approved $845 million 2026 bond program remains the streets and mobility package: Proposition A at $511,480,700, according to the city’s official Bond Program pages, while September’s budget vote kept the municipal debt-service rate unchanged to protect borrowing capacity. Voters approved all six bond propositions on … Read more