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Trinity Park Conservancy leaders say they want to make the park a welcoming place for West Dallas and other communities along the riverbanks.

In the middle of February was a horrendous week blanketed in white snow and suffering. West Dallas residents lost power, water and hope.

Dallas Free Press has compiled a list of resources for West Dallas residents in the aftermath of February's winter storm.

GAF is North America’s leading roofing manufacturer, and its federal permit is up for renewal. West Dallas neighbors are seizing the opportunity to fight against GAF’s presence in their neighborhood.

Dallas Free Press is looking forward to 2021 with a range of initiatives, including a food apartheid series, internet access reporting, a media collaborative, civic engagement, and a deep dive into the history of Dallas' Black schools.

This Dallas Free Press survey will inform our community journalism efforts in South Dallas and West Dallas, and help our launching-soon local media collaborative determine its focus topic.

Dallas Free Press is releasing a survey to inform their community journalism efforts in South and West Dallas, and to help their launching local media collaborative determine its focus topic, with the results of the survey to be distributed to subscribers and used to shape their work in the coming year.

On Thursday, the City Plan Commission will consider West Dallas Investments’ request to allow a 400-foot tower on the north side of Singleton, adjacent to La Bajada, with the hope of attracting a Fortune 500 company like Amazon, Google, AT&T or Toyota.

Dallas Free Press is committed to providing quality, trustworthy journalism to all communities in Dallas, and is seeking to hire two full-time reporters to focus on South Dallas and West Dallas in 2021.

West Dallas residents have been begging for safer streets, and after decades of no response, the voices of neighbors living near Bernal Drive finally are being heard.

Dallas Free Press has been using Subtext to send texts with community information to South Dallas and West Dallas residents, and is actively working to grow its reach.

The $2 million set aside solely for seven census tracts in the 75212 zip code comes from funds City Manager T.C. Broadnax pulled together from former city bond packages.

West Dallas has always been a source of inspiration for Dallas rapper Jesse James. Also known as ShawBoy4Life, James has been rapping for more than 10 years, using his experiences in West Dallas as fuel for his music.

We’ve pulled the data from projects at West Dallas schools, in either Dallas ISD Trustee Maxie Johnson’s District 5 or Trustee Miguel Solis’ District 8, to chart their construction timelines, costs and completion expectations.