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Kimberly Dale, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, said she did not have all the symptoms that are connected to coronavirus. She wasn’t coughing and had no fever. She only had a weird rash on her arms and belly and what felt like allergies that she thought were because of the weather constantly changing. “Where I work, I work outside and then I go inside the building, and it’s so cold, so I started getting some allergies and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I never suffer from allergies,’ and my coworkers were also feeling that way,” she said. “But then my throat started to hurt and I said, ‘now I am really going to get sick’ and something told me to just go and get checked because it is better to be safe than sorry.” Read the full story at themonitor.com

RAYMONDVILLE — Sparsely populated Willacy County is extending emergency orders aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus. County Judge Aurelio Guerra is mandating federal...

According to a survey of a little more than 200 local businesses conducted by the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, less than 3% of businesses in town expect to make it through the pandemic without being negatively impacted. A little over half of the businesses surveyed are confident they’ll survive the crisis; the other ones aren’t so sure, with 15.05% very worried about the situation and 3.23% saying they will likely go out of business. “We’ve not seen anything like this ever before,” Chamber President Steve Ahlenius said. “What is so dramatically different about this pandemic event is the amount of businesses that have been forced to shut down temporarily or permanently across the sector.” Read the full story at themonitor.com.

HARLINGEN — Another kind of coronavirus curve is just beginning its swing as sales tax numbers for February among the Valley’s bigger cities showed...

The San Benito school district says parents will now be able to pick up their children meals without having to bring to child to...

Joseph B. McCormick M.D., an epidemiologist, founder of the UTHealth School of Public Health in Brownsville and one of the world’s top experts on...

Cameron County Public Health has received confirmation of six additional cases of COVID-19. These include five individuals from Harlingen, including four males between the...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced Friday that they will start drive-thru testing for the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 starting Monday...

The Cameron County Commissioners Court has extended its disaster declaration indefinitely and could expand a mandatory midnight to 5 a.m. public curfew to daytime...