The Denton City Council gave staff the go-ahead to apply for a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation that would help pay for a trail and bridge in Evers Park.

The staff told the council that, because the engineering work is already finished for the bridge, the project should be competitive.

“We’ve been trying to build a bridge over that drainage channel for years,” said Emerson Vorel, head of the city’s parks and recreation department.

The city hopes to use one of the county’s historic iron bridges for another, smaller channel crossing, Vorel said.

The trail and bridge would connect the...

North Texas still has two crucial games left in its season, beginning with a road showdown at Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.

UNT still has a chance to become bowl-eligible and reach the .500 mark by beating a pair of teams that already have hit the six-win mark in ULM and Western Kentucky.

Reaching that goal has the Mean Green’s full attention.

Head coach Dan McCarney said this week that he’s ready to take a long, hard look at his roster after that final game against WKU, when he and his staff will evaluate the program from top to bottom.

UNT is preparing to make the move to Conference USA next season,...