Alerts VMS

HARLINGEN — City officials are planning to lessen the burden of higher water rates aimed at helping fund a sewer system overhaul carrying a price tag of more than $100 million.

A Border Patrol agent testified Thursday morning about the damage done to his property during a shootout with the suspect in the case of the shooting and death of 49-year-old Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Moises Sanchez.

HARLINGEN — After more than 30 years, city officials are taking over the Harlingen animal shelter’s operations, setting aside more than $365,000 to cover its payroll while planning on expenses to climb.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley station say they are monitoring two “significant weather systems” over the coming week that will present multiple hazards to Rio Grande Valley residents in the form of high winds and very cold temperatures.

HARLINGEN — After 18 months of negotiations, city commissioners and school board members are formally meeting to try to reach an agreement aimed at providing police security across the Harlingen school district’s campuses.

Jurors in the trial for the Edinburg man accused of killing Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Moises Sanchez in 2019 heard testimony Wednesday morning from a Texas Ranger who helped in the manhunt for the defendant.

Just days after their wedding anniversary, Yvonne Sanchez, the widow of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Moises Sanchez, took the stand and testified Tuesday afternoon in the trial of her husband’s accused killer, Victor Godinez.

EDINBURG — Body camera footage played for jurors Tuesday showed the frantic moments following state trooper Moises Sanchez’s shooting, moments marked by life-saving efforts from colleagues who told him to “hold on.”

HARLINGEN — It looks like city officials are taking on the city-owned animal shelter’s operations.

Raymondville and Lyford’s high school bands are making history.