Shalondria Galimore, Joppa Neighborhood Association president, would often charter a bus to take kids and their families from their southern Dallas neighborhood to the YMCA downtown on the ...

A man walks past the former Melissa Pierce School in Joppa on Thursday, July 8, 2021. Members of the Joppa community have been forced to fight too long and too hard for cleaner environmental ...

Joppa residents have been saying for years — if not decades — the factories that nearly surround their community spew toxic chemicals into the air. And they say the result has been generations ...

JOPPA, Texas — In October 2023, monitors placed around the Dallas community of Joppa for a study showed that the area had more air pollution than most Dallas County. Since then, environmental ...

A fire Monday afternoon at a split-level house in Joppa displaced a man and his adult son who lived there. A third adult son who was visiting for the holidays was at the home when the fire broke out.

DALLAS — It has been a long battle with the Texas Star Ready Mix concrete batch plant and residents of Dallas’ southeast neighborhood, Joppa. “As a resident, I'm very frustrated with this ...