From The Newsroom: Choral World Premiere, Restricting Fracking Restrictions

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published April 17, 2015 at 6:37 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

A world premiere from the king of choral music, John Rutter, debuts in Dallas Sunday night.

And bad news today for the folks in Denton who voted to ban hydraulic fracturing last fall.

The Texas house overwhelmingly passed what’s known as “the Denton fracking bill” which would restrict local regulation of oil and gas drilling.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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