Alerts BRH

SAN BENITO — Cameron County officials are snatching the city’s economic development director to lead a new department aiming to draw industry to the area.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation just got a big boost in its mission to cultivate entrepreneurship in Brownsville and the region in the form of a $1.2 million “Build to Scale” grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA).

Son of a nutcracker!

AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will close red snapper fishing in state waters on Monday, Nov. 20, at 11:59 p.m. until January 2024. Federal waters remain closed until the summer.

The Port of Brownsville said a "fire incident" happened Tuesday morning involving several tanker trucks staged at a truck parking area.

SpaceX says it’s shooting for Friday at the earliest for its second Starship orbital flight attempt from Boca Chica/Starbase, “pending final regulatory approval,” according to the company’s CEO, Elon Musk.

Southwest Airlines is raising prices on beer, wine and liquor ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Who doesn’t miss hearing Walter Mercado wish them “mucho, mucho amor” (much, much love)? The Puerto Rican astrologer, artist, dancer and media personality now returns as an avatar, thanks to artificial intelligence, to fill the void he left when he died on Nov. 2, 2019.

Sea Turtle Inc. on South Padre Island is inviting everyone who can make it to the organization’s 46th anniversary/founders day celebration on Tuesday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.