WESLACO — The blazing heat radiating off the asphalt didn’t keep Weslaco’s mayoral candidates Buddy de la Rosa and Miguel Wise from campaigning outside City Hall on Saturday.Wise handily won the runoff election, nabbing 68.49 percent of the…
LA PALOMA — School’s going green in the fastest growing part of the San Benito school district, officials said.The district will build a $7.8 million elementary school whose solar panels and “green” design will make it a model campus in the…
HARLINGEN — In an upcoming report, the U.S. Justice Department cites high and increasing levels of methamphetamine in the United States because of increased production of the drug in Mexico.But local law enforcement officials say meth remains at…
HARLINGEN — Five miles of repaving on North 77 Sunshine Strip should be completed this week, a Texas Department of Transportation official said.TxDOT began work on the section of roadway stretching from the north end of 77 Sunshine Strip down to…
RIO HONDO — After five years of violations, the city’s water plant is back in compliance — but just barely, city officials said this past week.Officials thought the city had 935 water connections, but a door-to-door count found 891 homes…
HARLINGEN — Not every place expecting Bass Pro Shops to come to town has gotten its new store. A handful of cities around the country that announced as many as six years ago that the retailer would open a unit there have yet to see ground…
The hot temperatures the Rio Grande Valley experienced late last week will continue up until the middle of this week with heat indices expected to reach 110 degrees in some parts of the area.
National Weather Service forecasters are reminding…
This week 17 Rio Grande Valley high school JROTC units numbering 250 cadets gathered at Marine Military Academy in Harlingen for leadership training. Darlene Leija of Mission High School crawls through the mud pit course at MMA, the last course for…