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Bass Pro Shops announced a new amateur fishing tournament Monday that will pay $4 million in cash and prizes to amateur anglers, including a $1 million to prize the champs. A local qualifier for the tournament is scheduled for April at Lake Ray Roberts north of Denton. The outfitter announced the tournament Monday as a kick-off to celebrating its 50th…

Casting for a rebooted version of “The Biggest Loser” will take place in Dallas this Saturday, June 29. The casting team is looking for the newest group of contestants to start their weight loss journey.

NBC 5 and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) encourage all North Texas students, Kindergarten through 12th grade, to showcase their artwork in this year’s DART Student Art Contest. The theme of this year’s contest is “My Next Stop is _____”.

For the first time ever, the Keller High School Marching band will be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and they’ll be the only high school from Texas performing. We meet two of the students going, their friendship started with an act of service.

For the first time in its history, Dallas ISD has a long-range master plan. Early in it’s process, it’s basically a draft of a proposal, but if approved it would include demolishing 47 school buildings and building 25 new ones.

NBC’s “The Voice” held open call auditions at Globe Life Park in Arlington on Saturday.

Americans began competing in the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation World Weightlifting Championships on Wednesday at the Anaheim Convention Center.

After two state fair award-winning quilts made by sisters were stolen, officials at the State Fair of Texas stepped in to help on Wednesday.

Beayutiful. Beeyoutiful? Bootiful? If you know how to spell the word “beautiful,” you might actually be in the minority. According to Google Trends, it’s the most commonly misspelled word in New York — and in four other states.

Words that are difficult enough to boot spellers from spelling bee competition rounds are called knockout words. With the premier spelling bee in the nation kicking off this week in Washington, D.C., here are five knockout words selected from the last 10 years, as provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s office. Competitors who misspelled these words placed fourth or...

Cheating, or hacking, is an issue as competitive video gaming breaks into mainstream entertainment. Prizes ranging from sponsorships to social media fame to cash rewards are prompting some to seek an edge over the competition.

NBC 5’s Kristin Dickerson stopped by the Cattle Barn at the State Fair of Texas and met Casey Pitchford, a third-generation competitor at the fair.

The NBA and Mountain Dew are launching a 3-on-3 competition tour that will award the winning teams spots in next year’s USA Basketball 3-on-3 tournament.

Students grades K-12, create your poster and show unique places you’ve discovered by riding DART or the destinations you have yet to explore. You could win $1000, get your artwork featured on a DART bus, in a DART rail station, inside a DART train or one of many other prizes. Entries will be accepted now through February 27, 2015.