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Brownsville Hobby Lobby scheduled to open June 21

If you live in Brownsville and have been holding on to those Hobby Lobby gift cards get ready to use them. The Hobby Lobby Arts...

Local fishing guide buys TowBoatUS in Port Isabel

PORT ISABEL — Call it Triple-A for the water. Port Isabel fishing guide Capt. George Strader is the new owner of TowBoatUS in Port Isabel,...

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...

Big business: Shipbreaking rebounds at Port of Brownsville

Things were hard on the steel coast last year. Like virtually every sector of the economy, the commodity metals market took a hit as a...

B-Metro to start offering Sunday rides next month

B-Metro will be rolling out its first Sunday service pilot on July 25 reaching major points of interest such as Walmart, H-E-B, Sunrise Mall...

Esperanza Homes Launches Phase II of Sonador Coves Subdivision

Esperanza Homes recently announced the start of Phase II of their Sonador Coves subdivision in Edinburg. The first phase of Sonador Coves quickly sold out,...

Loan program deadline extended; BCIC still has $375,000 to spend

A zero-interest, forgivable loan program to help Brownsville small businesses hurt by the pandemic retain their low- to moderate-income employees has extended its deadline...

State sales taxes for month hit record $3.4 billion

State sales tax collections released Wednesday hit a Texas record of $3.4 billion for the month, an increase of 30.1 percent over a year...

VIA scores perfect marks in latest FAA inspection

HARLINGEN — Valley International Airport has received a faultless score from the Federal Aviation Administration in its latest inspection of the airport’s facilities and...

Coastal advocate: SpaceX exceeding FAA’s 300-hour limit

In the beginning, a company called SpaceX said it wanted to launch up to 12 times a year from Boca Chica Beach, where it...