City of Denton sues ERCOT after receiving $207M bill

The city of Denton went to court Tuesday to stop a huge bill from the winter storm. Lawyers claim ERCOT is illegally passing on the cost of power during the outages to cities.

Denton police officer arrested by FBI on child porn distribution charge

Officer David Schoolcraft was arrested on Wednesday and charged with distribution of child pornography. He appeared in federal court on Thursday.

Denton ISD school closed for the remainder of the year because of storm damage

During last week's power crisis, Denton ISD offered to take its buildings off the grid so that individual homes could have power. Unfortunately, that led to frozen pipes and damage across the whole first floor at Harpool Middle School.

Denton could borrow up to $300M to cover high electricity costs during winter storm

The city of Denton is one of several in Texas with its own electric utility and it took a real hit in the winter storm with unexpectedly high costs. It may have to borrow millions of dollars to cover that.

North Texans head to warming stations for relief from freezing temperatures

With many hotels completely booked, cities and some churches are working to offer a warm place for people to get a break from their cold houses.

Denton opens warming stations during extreme cold

The Denton Civic Center will stay open until noon Monday.  Anyone who needs shelter can get a cot, water and some food.

Denton police release sketch of sex assault suspect

Denton police want to identify a man who made small talk with a woman at her front door last month and then forced his way in and sexually assaulted her.

The Fauci Effect: North Texas medical schools seeing an increase in students

The pandemic threw the nation's leading infectious disease expert into the limelight. Now many feel the call to follow in his shoes. It's called "The Fauci Effect."

Texas working to vaccinate people who live, work at long-term care facilities

Governor Greg Abbott said Texas is participating in a federal program to vaccinate residents and staff of long-term care facilities against COVID-19.