County: Vacationing couple infected with COVID-19
By Diana Eva Maldonado and ALANA HERNANDEZ, Staff Writers
Cameron County officials say a couple who vacationed on South Padre Island for the winter have been...
Brownsville Catholic Diocese suspends Masses
The Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has announced that all Masses in the diocese will be suspended until further notice due to the coronavirus or...
Gladys Porter Zoo to remain closed until further notice
Gladys Porter Zoo released the following statement via Facebook:
Effective immediately, the Gladys Porter Zoo will remain closed to the public until further notice.
The health...
Trevino suspends county events; recommends Island events be canceled
Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. announced Saturday that all county-sponsored functions or events expecting more than 250 people will be canceled and/or suspended...
STARGATE incubator schools Mexican entrepreneurs
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley hosted a delegation of about 40 entrepreneurs from the Mexican Institute of Petroleum, the National Autonomous University...
Officials discuss early education for low income children
Children in the Rio Grande Valley are at an economic disadvantage compared to their peers in the rest of the state and that’s a significant problem, according to Children at Risk, a nonprofit that met with Valley educational leaders here last week to discuss strategies to ensure government funds that are allocated to early education produce positive results.
Data presented Tuesday to a group of representatives from local school districts, workforce solutions and early head start programs show most Valley cities have a number of children living in poverty that’s higher — sometimes far higher — than the rest of the state.
The data says 22% of Texas children under the age of 5 are living in poverty. In comparison, 17% of children in Edinburg are living in poverty, 28% in McAllen, 40% in Harlingen and Weslaco, and 46% in Brownsville.
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$38 million grant going to UTRGV School of Medicine
HARLINGEN — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced Tuesday it has received a $38 million gift for the School of Medicine.
The...
SpaceX slates ‘career day’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Feb. 3 that design and production on the Starship V1.0 SN1 is “going max hardcore” at the company’s Boca Chica rocket yard 22 miles east of Brownsville.
“It’s awesome! Feels a bit like a Mars simulator,” he tweeted.
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2019 brings test flight: A signal year for SpaceX activities
It was in 2019 that things really came to life at SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch and test site, after a few years of quiet,...
