Alerts BRH

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.

Tuesday is the last day Cameron County residents who want to vote in the Nov. 7 Special Joint Election will be able to register.

Just one day after news broke that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas had greenlit the construction of new border wall in Starr County — waiving 26 federal laws in the process — both local and federal officials have been left with questions.

On a split vote, the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees has censured Trustee Carlos Elizondo for comments he made during a Sept. 22 meeting during an exchange with board President Jessica G. Gonzalez.

The copious rain that pounded sections of the Rio Grande Valley ahead of the Thursday cold front was great for lawns and other green things, but not enough to improve low reservoir levels up the river.

Despite being declared ineligible to run for Brownsville mayor, Pat Ahumada, former elected official and brief candidate for the position in the May election, was fined $100 by the Texas Ethics Commission for failing to file a campaign treasurer appointment while accepting contributions and making campaign expenditures.

After a group of students from Veterans Memorial Early College High School expressed displeasure at Tuesday’s school board meeting about holding graduation ceremonies at 7:30 a.m., the board decided not to do it after all.