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Families gathered around midday Saturday and looked up. Some from outside their homes, others while going about their business and running errands, and then there were those at local events.

The Texas Senate late Thursday night approved its version of a school voucher program through Senate Bill 1.

Carlos Elizondo, the Brownsville Independent School District board member who was censured at the Oct. 3 meeting, has sent a letter to the State Bar of Texas complaining that he and the board's other two minority members didn't receive a copy of the censure resolution before the meeting.

What occurred in Israel last Saturday has had a resounding impact worldwide, and the Rio Grande Valley is no exception.

The Rio Grande Valley congressional delegation has signed onto a letter to President Joe Biden expressing frustration over the delayed issuance of presidential permits for key border bridge projects.

The Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center’s mission of trying to find homes for the city’s huge population of homeless dogs and cats in its charge is a monumental undertaking, one that requires more resources than BARCC has.

HARLINGEN — A joyously cool wind tussles the flags and the trees around the purple structure with the dashing signs.

The Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and Brownsville Independent School District congratulated the first cohort of graduates in an anti-vaping initiative to help students head off the consequences of a felony indictment for vaping.

The National Hurricane Center was monitoring an area of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche that could mean heavy rainfall across the Valley and northern ranchlands, the National Weather Service Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley station reported Tuesday morning.

EDINBURG — The Rio Grande Valley — and the binational border that defines it — is a place not well understood by outsiders, despite its steady place in national headlines.