McAllen Independence Day celebration preparations underway
After in-person celebrations were canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of McAllen's Independence Day celebrations are back in their traditional...
Local hospitals hold cereal drive for Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley
Cereal drives at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville and VBMC-Harlingen to benefit the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley will continue through...
RGV Birding Festival raring to make up for lost year
HARLINGEN — A year after the difficult decision to cancel, the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival is gearing up for its 27th annual event...
Valley women reappointed to Texas Historical Commission
Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed Monica Zárate Burdette, Lilia Garcia, David Gravelle, John L. Nau, III, and Tom Perini of the Texas Historical Commission...
‘Engaged with Space’: Fine Art Museum hosts sculpture exhibit
The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art invites the Rio Grande Valley community to attend its newest exhibit “Engaged with Space” by artist Alejandro Coronado....
Spirit of music: RGV-based Tejanas Unidas En Cristo to release a new single
A group of Rio Grande Valley Tejana artists is aiming to spread unity and love through their new single to be released this fall.
Genyva...
Harlingen resident earns doctoral degree
HARLINGEN — For Dr. Brenda de la Garza, 37, pursuing a career in education used to be something she never imagined herself doing.
She had...
Strong’s ‘Vol. II’ reaches No. 1 on Amazon
BROWNSVILLE — Just a few days after W.F. Strong, a communications professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, published “Stories from Texas:...
Sea Turtle, Inc. to release 3 Kemp’s ridley today; last of Cape Cod rescues
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND – A trio of cold stunned visitors from the Northeast are healthy, rehabilitated and ready to head back to the ocean.
Sea...
PHOTOGRAPHER’S PERSPECTIVE: Valley amateur boxers step into ring at Mission event
MISSION — From Eric “Drummer Boy” Molina to Brandon “The Heartbreaker” Figueroa, the Rio Grande Valley has a long and proud history of producing...