ROCKWALL – Undefeated Rockwall-Heath won its sixth game in a row Friday night, blasting McKinney North, 41-7; while Rockwall evened its season record at 3-3 by winning its second straight District 10-4A game, stinging McKinney, 31-22. Royse City won its first game of the season over Denison, 21-6. Following are all the scores of County, [...]

ROYSE CITY – What appeared to be a live bomb left on a Royse City street Thursday evening caused Royse City Police to close Highway 66 and cordon off several blocks of the city for three hours. According to Royse City Police Chief Carl Alsabrook, while some of the components of the device found in [...]

ROYSE CITY – Donations are needed immediately to help the family of 16-year-old Royse City High School/Browning Academy student Anthony Robert Sanders to pay for funeral expenses. Anthony was killed Wednesday night when the pick-up truck he was riding in crashed on Elm Grove Rd. near Circle Dr, south of Royse City, between I-30 and [...]

(NBC5-TV News) ROYSE CITY – Residents in Royse City battled a grass fire with garden hoses before firefighters arrived Tuesday. Residents said the flames were moving so fast, they grabbed whatever they could to save their homes. “[My neighbor] had a bucket putting out hotspots, then I had the water hose going around the whole [...]

(NBC5TV-News) ROYSE CITY – A large brush fire threatened homes in Hunt County east of Royse City near County Road 2597 Friday late afternoon. Firefighters attacked the fast-moving fire with air strikes and brush trucks and quickly got it under control. Richard Hill, Hunt County fire marshal, estimated that more than 150 acres were burned in [...]

ROYSE CITY – The Royse City City Council voted 4-3 last week to pass a resolution to advertise the City’s intent to sell $535,000 worth of bonds immediately in order to raise the funds necessary for the City’s contribution to build the Erby Campbell Blvd. overpass across I-30, just west of SH 548. Council members [...]

There will be no City or school board elections in Royse City May 14 since no new candidates filed by March 14 to run against incumbents. Consequently, City Council incumbents Mayor Jerrell Baley, Janet Nichol (Place 1), former County Judge Bill Bell (Place 3) and James Branch (Place 5) can continue for another two years. [...]

Remember the Royse City financial crisis back in Aug. 2008, when the City Council unexpectedly learned that the previously fast-growing city was $2.3 million in debt with no money to pay its employees or vendors? Well, fortunately, thanks to a lot of hard work by a good number of City employees, consultants and citizen volunteers, [...]

Dallas Morning News. Small Texas manufacturers are having a tough time competing with China. Low-priced imports have battered them for years. But China’s appetite for raw materials has put an additional squeeze on companies like the ones clustered in a little industrial park here 34 miles east of Dallas. “They’ll take lower quality leather and [...]

By J.J. Smith. Sales tax revenues increased again in June in Rockwall, Royse City, Heath, Fate and McClendon Chisholm, but decreased in Mobile City. Mobile City and Fate are both down for their fiscal years, compared to last year at this time. This means that many businesses are faring better this year than at the [...]