One in seven Texans experiences food insecurity according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 are committed to fighting hunger in North Texas. This week, tune-in every day at 4:00 p.m. on NBC 5 and at 4:30 p.m. on Telemundo 39 as we take a look at the face of hunger in our community If you…

Students cannot be successful if they are hungry. This fact led Brazosport College and the Houston Food Bank to partner and create Gator Mart to provide students with groceries, easing their financial burden and reducing food insecurity.

Teachers at Bishop Elementary believe their students’ work shouldn’t be confined to paper, they think big and that’s helping the Everman ISD school achieve top academic honors.

Students and staff at Bishop Elementary asked NBC 5 to visit and give them a platform to brag about their academic success.

NorthPark Center hosted 28 teams participating in the 2019 “Canstruction” competition, a contest in which teams build sculptures out of canned goods and collect food donations the North Texas Food Bank.

More than two dozen heroic exhibits are on display at NorthPark Center. And the North Texas Food Bank needs your help choosing the best one.

Hundreds of students have been using the University of Houston-Downtown food market to help save money on groceries.

NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 teamed up with Albertsons and Tom Thumb to donate food to the “Don’t Forget to Feed Me” pet food bank. Together we donated $10,000 worth of food. That adds up to about 21,000 of food. This part is all part of our mission to help “Clear The Shelters.”

National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure ahead of the busy Presidents Day weekend later this month. Visitors left human waste, piles of trash, graffiti, used unauthorized trails and damaged Joshua trees at the namesake...

Federal employees are turning on office lights and computers and reopening national parks and museums for the first time in weeks, but others employed by government contractors face still more uncertainty over when they’ll resume work or whether they’ll ever be paid for time lost to the stalemate over President Donald Trump’s border wall. For the hundreds of thousands of...

A furloughed federal employee found himself at a food bank for the first time. The experience brought a new opportunity to pay it forward.

A furloughed federal employee found himself at a food bank for the first time. The experience brought a new opportunity to pay it forward.

A Fort Worth woman said she lost $2500 in an employment scheme and is now struggling to make ends meet. But she’s not the only person who fell victim to this scam.

For a fifth year, the city of Plano is partnering with The North Texas Food Bank to collect jars of peanut butter for food insecure children.

Construction is in the final stages at the North Texas Food Bank’s new 220,000-square-foot warehouse in Plano.

On Saturday, NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 employees gave back to the community by volunteering at the Tarrant Area Food Bank.

A major donation to the North Texas Food Bank was so large that it will provide one million meals to those in need.

Several photographs taken behind the scenes at a Dallas Independent School District food service facility show several pallets of food items, stacked high with dozens of cases that represent thousands of dollars of wasted food, being thrown in the garbage.

Several photographs taken behind the scenes at a Dallas Independent School District food service facility show several pallets of food items, stacked high with dozens of cases that represent thousands of dollars of wasted food, being thrown in the garbage.

Slovenian-born Melania Trump has been unafraid to go against her husband’s “America First” agenda and stay true to her roots, if there’s a message to be taken from her bold, foreign-flavored wardrobe in 2017.