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Graduating seniors aren’t the only high schoolers dealing with the impact of Covid-19.   Juniors looking to focus their college plans are having a hard time as so many college campuses are closed.      Allie Edgar’s plans for her freshman year of college feel like they keep hitting speed bumps..” I’m so unsure of where I want to go,...

High school juniors focusing on college plans are having a hard time since so many college campuses are closed to tours plus financial worries are high.

The University of North Texas is preparing to reopen its campus. The university president sat down with education reporter Wayne Carter to talk about his plan that will be formally announced Thursday night.

Yes, people need to get back to work, but ultimately, there is a highly contagious and deadly virus that is still spreading. What are the long and short term effects?

Yes, people need to get back to work, but ultimately, there is a highly contagious and deadly virus that is still spreading. What are the long and short term effects?

Two years ago, esports burst onto the scene at the University of North Texas. The school becoming the first public university in the state to launch a collegiate program for gamers.

Two years ago, esports burst onto the scene at the University of North Texas. The school becoming the first public university in the state to launch a collegiate program for gamers.

The University of North Texas has postponed its May graduation ceremonies. UNT has said that graduates would be able to participate in later ceremonies.

A captain in the University of North Texas Police Department has died after a battle with cancer, the department says. Field Services Capt. David Owen, who started his career at the university in 2005 and oversaw the patrol officers, died Tuesday, according to UNT police. “We have lost an important member of our community with the passing of Capt. Owen,”…

The University of North Texas is renaming a mathematics statistical laboratory in honor of a former student. Linda Truitt Creagh graduated from UNT in 1967, the first person to graduate from the university with a doctorate in chemistry. In 2019, Creagh donated $150,000 to UNT’s mathematics department after being inspired by the groundbreaking cancer research of Xuexia Wang, an associate…

A Denton police officer fatally shot a man early Tuesday morning who police say resisted a stun gun and continued to advance on police while refusing to drop a frying pan and a cleaver he was carrying. An officer injured in the melee is recovering from a stab wound.

Groundbreaking technology that could help consumers find gas pump credit card skimmers before they fall victim could be on the horizon and technology could be thanks to North Texas ingenuity. The University of North Texas Cyber Forensics Lab’s work with law enforcement agencies trying to eradicate skimmers may have led to the creation of a detection device. “We have...

Groundbreaking technology that could help consumers find gas pump credit card skimmers before they fall victim could be on the horizon and technology could be thanks to North Texas ingenuity.

A series of recently passed and enacted state laws could make it much harder for consumers to know when a credit skimmer is found at a gas station. For years, the Texas Department of Agriculture has released warnings about gas stations where someone had attached a skimmer to steal credit card information, but new laws (HB2945 and SB2119) will limited…

A series of recently passed and enacted state laws could make it much harder for consumers to know when a credit skimmer is found at a gas station.

As marijuana becomes legal in some states and the CBD craze continues to explode, new issues are being presented for law enforcement. There’s no quick way to measure if someone is impaired by marijuana or if they’ve taken CBD. “This is a widespread problem that isn’t unique to Texas,” said John Redmond with InspectIR Systems. Redmond is behind InspectIR...

A Frisco start-up says it’s created a device that will be a game-changer for law enforcement.

A group of teens from Denton is getting international attention for an invention they hope will help people with disabilities.

UNT history students had no idea where their research would take them, when they set out to tell the story of a freedman’s cemetery in Pilot Point.

The University of North Texas is directing faculty and staff to come up with ways to improve diversity and inclusion after a member of UNT’s legal staff used a racial slur during a panel discussion. Calls for changes also came from students who staged a peaceful sit-in during the UNT Systems Board of Regents’ meeting Thursday afternoon.