Newsroom

Local news for every Texas city, zone by zone.

One newsroom for all of Texas, organized by city and by the part of town you live in.

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How coverage works

Texas, then region, then city, then zone

Everything is filed to the most local place it fits, then shows on each level above.

Each dot is a city BOLO covers. The highlighted path shows how one city sits inside the state.
  1. 1

    Texas 1 front page

    Stories that matter beyond one metro: weather, the Legislature, big games.

    Texas front page

  2. 2

    Region 8 regions

    Groups nearby cities. A regional editor decides what travels between them.

    North Texas / DFW

  3. 3

    City 60 cities

    Your home page: city hall, schools, sports, events and live traffic.

    Dallas

  4. 4

    Zone 3 to 8 per city

    A cluster of ZIP codes with a name residents use: a neighborhood or side of town.

    Oak Cliff

  • Filed once, shown upward. A zone story also appears on its city page. Editors promote it further only when it affects people there.
  • Zones follow ZIP codes, not politics. Not council districts or school boundaries. Drawn wrong? Send a correction.
  • Small towns count. A one-zone town gets the same page, alerts and corrections process as a city with eight.

Editorial standards

What you can hold us to

Accuracy before speed

We publish what we can confirm. Breaking items say what is not yet known.

Named sources

Sources are named unless that puts someone at risk. An editor always knows who they are.

Ads look like ads

Advertisers do not shape coverage. Paid content is labeled and names who paid. Ad policy

Careful with public safety

An arrest is not a conviction. No mugshots for minor offenses. We follow cases to their outcome.

Fair chance to respond

Anyone criticized in a story is contacted before publication.

Photos and AI

News photos are never staged or altered. A person reports, writes and edits every story.

Corrections policy

When we get it wrong

  1. You tell us. Use the correction form or the link at the bottom of any story.
  2. An editor checks it within one business day. Not the reporter who wrote the story.
  3. We fix the story and say so. A dated note at the bottom states what was wrong and what changed.
  4. We never quietly delete. Stories are unpublished only for legal or safety reasons, and the page says why.

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    Names below are placeholders for the prototype, not real people.

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    Pick what you are sending. A person reads every submission.

    Prototype: nothing is uploaded or sent. Selling something? Post a listing. In an emergency call 911.

    Local correspondents program

    Cover the part of town you know best

    Paid freelancers who live in their zone file short dispatches. A staff editor checks every one.

    Pay $75 per published dispatch (demo rate)
    Time 2–4hrs a week, on your schedule
    Training 90min online standards course before your first story
    Open now — zones looking for a correspondent

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