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Road Trippin’: Five fabulous road trips within five hours of Dallas-Fort Worth
| August 18, 2025
North Texans in need of low-cost vacation ideas can consider these COURIER DFW road trip itineraries.
Project expected to reduce temps in Dallas’ heat island
| August 14, 2025
A groundbreaking project is planned for the SouthwesternMedical District that developers say will improve health and help cool the Dallas heat island. The medical district is working with the Texas Trees Foundation to add more trees and landscaping to the corridor and build a park in the middle of the 14 acres of land that houses Parkland Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Hospital.
There’s still time to participate in DFW’s indie bookstore crawl
| August 13, 2025
Through the month of August, 24 bookstores in the DFW area are hosting a bookstore crawl. Here’s what you need to know.
Dallas and Fort Worth end their diversity efforts to keep federal funding
| August 12, 2025
City councils have cut funding for programs and policies that consider religion, race, gender, and other identity markers.
My friend group tried Dallas’s coolest new take on shuffleboard (& yours should too)
| August 11, 2025
There’s a new game in town. See how Electric Shuffle elevates shuffleboard and provides a delightfully enjoyable group experience.
10 places to take guests if you want them to fall in love with North Texas
| August 7, 2025
A visitor’s guide to 10 must-see spots in North Texas that make it stand out as one of the coolest places in the country. “I’m from Dallas,” I say with a smile when someone asks about my hometown. I can’t help it—growing up in North Texas evokes some of the happiest memories of my life. […]
11 Instagrammable places in the DFW that you didn’t know about
| July 31, 2025
Enjoy this list of Instagrammable places in the DFW metroplex.
11 places that prove Plano is anything but plain
| July 30, 2025
As one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, there are so many things to do in Plano, Texas. Check out 11 of our favorite activities.
The guerrilla campaign to save a Texas prairie from ‘silent extinction’
| July 28, 2025
Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle.”
How DFW became one of the busiest airports in the world (+ some of the coolest flights you can take)
| July 22, 2025
Learn how Dallas Fort Worth International Airport has turned into one of the most popular airports in the world, both in passengers served and flights flown.