Fort Worth City Council

The city council will vote on the budget on Sep. 19.

The City Council expects to approve the 2023-2024 budget next month. NBC 5’s Laura Harris has the details.

The City of Forth Worth voted to increase the Homestead exemption for the elderly and the disabled.

Polls open Monday morning for early voting in local races across North Texas ahead of the May 6 election.

Polls open tomorrow morning for early voting in local races across North Texas ahead of the May 6 election.

Big changes are coming to the way Fort Worth regulates short-term rentals.

On the heels of the conviction of former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean, discussion about renaming a historic recreation center after Atatiana Jefferson was on the table again at the first Fort Worth City Council meeting of the new year.

The Hillside Recreation Center will be known as The Atatiana Carr Jefferson at Hillside Community Center, a compromise between proponents and opponents of the name change.

They will be looking at a packed agenda, with many items that have been a hot topic in the community for months.

After months of community debate and response from the public, the Fort Worth city council will finally vote on whether or not to extend the city’s teen curfew ordinance another three years. 

The city of Fort Worth is in the process of reviewing its curfew ordinance, possibly extending it to 2026.

In a 5 to 4 vote, the Fort Worth City Council rejected the idea of creating a police advisory board. Supporters say they’re disappointed the recommendation failed.

In a 5-4 vote the Fort Worth City Council voted against a proposed police advisory board.

There are ongoing discussions in the city of Fort Worth over a possible community police oversight board as an effort to improve police accountability.

The Fort Worth City Council passed a $2.3 billion budget Tuesday that includes a property tax cut.

Fort Worth has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Jacqueline Craig, a Black mother wrestled to the ground and arrested by a white police officer following a dispute with a neighbor.

The City of Fort Worth has agreed to pay to settle the lawsuit with a Fort Worth mother who was arrested after calling the police for help during a 2016 dispute with a neighbor.

A plan to redevelop a former public housing site goes before council members Tuesday. Butler Place opened near Downtown Fort Worth in 1940 and was home to families for 80 years before it closed.

Fort Worth city leaders are set to discuss drainage in the booming West 7th District as neighbors there continue to clean up from recent flooding.

Neighbors in Fort Worth’s West 7th area are still cleaning up from floods two weeks ago. While homeowners wait on the city to address ongoing draining concerns, they received some much-needed help Monday.