Business

The state added 33,600 jobs in November to reach another all-time employment record of 13,672,900, Texas Workforce Commission officials said.

A new Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is opening in Alton on Tuesday, and the first 50 customers will receive a “Free Chicken for a Year” gift card during a giveaway that day, the eatery said in a media release.

HARLINGEN — Costco will be increasing membership fees as early as January, citing membership price hikes at other big retailers, execs at the company confirmed.

DIX Industries, a stevedoring, warehousing and logistics firm that got its start at the Port of Brownsville in 1947, is this year’s recipient of the port’s Chairman’s Award in recognition of its accomplishments over the last 75 years.

The Texas comptroller will send cities, counties transit systems and special purpose districts $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for December, an increase of 12.4 percent over last year.

HARLINGEN — Dollar General Corp., with more than 90 stores in the Rio Grande Valley, has filed plans to build several more at locations in Cameron and Hidalgo counties.

The Gulf shrimping industry, including the Brownsville-Port Isabel fleet, shrinking steadily over the last couple of decades, is now in a state of near total collapse thanks to new, unprecedented challenges in addition to the usual.

The online version of the epic Black Friday sales day is here.

McALLEN — Black Friday has been an American tradition for decades, but as time passes, it seems as though the tradition is slowly evolving in response to the digital age and a post-COVID world.

McALLEN — Academy Sports + Outdoors went the traditional route and hosted a Black Friday event in McAllen during a time Black Friday sales,...