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Here is a look at some of the country’s other great urban gathering spaces and how they stack up with Gathering Place.

Ja’Tovia Gary left Dallas to become a filmmaker and artist. She came home to make the most personal film of her life.

A series of community meetings about plans for the $1.16 billion Panther Island project in Fort Worth will begin today (Sept. 7).

The raise would add $2.18 to an average bill, which is $71.08.

The world is moving away from oil. What happens to all those oil rigs out there in the water? Sabin Center for Climate Law Columbia University: More than 12,000 offshore oil and gas installations straddle the globe, and industry analysts anticipate annual offshore oil and gas investments to reach USD 173 billion by 2024. A number of oil…

Texas Parks and Wildlife has issued an "Outstanding Angler Award" to a fisherman who caught an impressive alligator gar from the Trinity River before releasing the fish.

They told me alligators don’t eat people. But when I found myself face to face with one in a dark East Texas swamp, I hoped they’d told him too.

Orphaned energy facilities are rotting away in Texas bays, leaking toxins into seafood-rich ecosystems. And guess who has to clean them up?

Tarrant Regional Water District states that 15-20 % of the water it provides comes from Eagle Mountain Lake and Benbrook Lake.

John Graves contributed to Texas Monthly from 1977 through 2006. Over the years, he also wrote for the Sierra Club, the Atlantic, Esquire, and the New Yorker. He was born in 1920 in Fort Worth, where he explored the Trinity River bottom before it became littered with beer cans. He graduated from Rice University, received a master’s degree from Columbia, and served as a first lieutenant in the Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II, where he lost sight in one eye. He taught at the Unive...