The rain is gone, what’s on tap for the weekend? The Dallas Morning News’ Sarah Blaskovich has some ideas — including the Mac and Cheese Festival at Texas Live!, Mardis Gras events and country singer Alan Jackson is in town. Oh, and there’s a Barbie-themed popup event in Plano.

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 “Paint the town _. Ride DART.” (You fill in the blank!) Students are encouraged to create a poster that showcases the unique places they have…

Bloodshed in Dallas in 2019 led police searching for solutions. Cassandra Jaramillo, with The Dallas Morning News, talks about how the paper is digging deeper into the issue and the toll it’s taken on the city.

The Dallas Morning News has traditionally recommended candidates for election in local, state and national elections. This year the paper is recommending in local and state elections, but it is not issuing a recommending for president of the United States in either the primaries or the general election. Brendan Miniter from The Dallas Morning News joins us to discuss.

A North Texas wedding photographer has been awarded a $1.08 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise fee.

Sarah Blaskovich from The Dallas Morning News joins us to talk about all the restaurant headlines of the week, including a restaurant with a cannabis theme.

One man with a camera, Dallas Morning News photojournalist, Tom Fox, was allowed to capture every moment from inside the courtroom.

J. Crew is closing its store in Dallas’ West Village, which has only been open since late 2014. It opened as part of the new 3700M apartment and retail tower that also houses men’s specialty retailer Suitsupply. The store, on the corner of McKinney Avenue and Blackburn Street, is one of the retailer’s largest in the Dallas-Fort Worth market...

A sneak peek at plans for redeveloping the Galleria Dallas shopping mall shows a more mixed-use project. In mid-2018, the owners of the landmark shopping venue hired Fort Worth-based Trademark Property Co. to take over management of the 1.3 million-square-foot mall. Since then, owner UBS and Trademark have been working with architects Omniplan and Gensler to come up with a…

Restaurateur Chris Zielke pauses after confirming the fresh news that Bolsa in Oak Cliff served its final dinner on Jan. 21. “This conversation makes me emotional,” he says, then goes quiet. Zielke, Chris Jeffers and their two partners had been dreaming of opening a farm-to-table spot since since 2006. When it opened in 2008, Bolsa was — for its partners,…

A former University of Texas at Arlington student is suing a fraternity alleging that he was blindfolded and forced to drink so much alcohol that it led to his alcohol poisoning last year, according to a lawsuit. Roc Riner was a junior in his first semester at UT-Arlington when he pledged to the Sigma Chi fraternity in March, according to…

Gas meters found close to roads are damaged in crashes far more than one might expect, according to a joint investigation from NBC 5 Investigates and The Dallas Morning News.

A Texas lawmaker is pushing for stronger oversight of potentially dangerous gas meters that are within striking distance of passing motorists, after NBC 5 Investigates and the Dallas Morning News reported areas of concern.

The grieving parents of the gunman at the Earle Cabell Federal Building in Dallas said they feel their son intentionally missed easy human targets when he sprayed bullets into the building.

The grieving parents of the gunman at the Earle Cabell Federal Building in Dallas said they feel their son was troubled and battling depression and knew armed guards would be at the federal building, calling the act “suicide by cop.”

The grieving parents of the gunman at the Earle Cabell Federal Building in Dallas said they feel their son intentionally missed easy human targets when he sprayed bullets into the building.

Billy Chermirmir is charged with killing at least 12 women. Authorities say he posed as a maintenance worker or health care provider to gain access to the women’s apartments. Police say he robbed and killed them. The Dallas Morning News’ Charles Scugger spoke with the daughter of one of Chermirmir’s alleged victims and talks about the two-part series “Guardians.”

The body of a 51-year-old man from The Colony was found by searchers in south-central Wyoming.

Post Malone gave his new Post Malone X Crocs to employees at his former place of work.

The Texas deadline to file to run for office is Dec. 9. According to The Dallas Morning News, some Democrats remain hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke will get into the race for U.S. Senate.