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BROWNSVILLE — The sun moves beyond the trees as a late afternoon breeze warm and wet blows swift and steady down the wide boulevard.

The Brownsville Independent School District is getting closer to determining where its budget can reasonably be cut and still provide the services the community expects.

Milwhite Inc., a heavy industrial firm in Brownsville, is being sued by Texas Office of the Attorney General on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality over alleged violations of the Texas Clean Air Act.

Brownsville police have released details about a deadly shooting that occurred Saturday evening.

The city of Brownsville announced late Monday that Mayor John Cowen Jr. has been invited to the White House along with two other Rio Grande Valley mayors for a border-related announcement from President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

AUSTIN — Things looked desperate for the Weslaco High Panthers after going down 9-3 to Waco Midway entering the bottom of the seventh inning in the Class 6A state title game Saturday at McCombs Field in Austin.

A Brownsville man died early Sunday morning after he tried to cross a non-designated highway area, the Texas Department of Public Safety reported.

Sea Turtle Inc. is celebrating a great start to the sea turtle nesting season with over 71 turtle nests in the first month of the season, which typically begins in April.

The Brownsville Independent School District has removed five books from its libraries after activists raised concerns related to House Bill 900 during the public comment period at the May 21 Board of Trustees meeting.

"I am large, I contain multitudes," wrote Walt Whitman. He was talking about himself, but the words apply equally to the architecture of Texas. I have a substantial library on the subject — monographs, guidebooks, essay collections, scholarly studies, photographic compilations — and not one of those books might be considered definitive. Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture (University of Texas Press, $45) gets about as close as any. A chunky, colorful pleasure, it is the work of historian Kathryn E. O'Rourke, who provides the text, and the architect and critic Ben Koush, who supplies the photographs.