Local News

HARLINGEN — With less than two weeks before Christmas, The Salvation Army finds itself falling behind its red kettle goal for 2023.

EDINBURG — With the sudden passing of Juan Carlos, the head of the household, the Limon family is struggling to adjust to the new life without their beloved father and husband.

Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders said Tuesday that SpaceX’s plan is to make the company’s Boca Chica complex its “premier manufacturing, launching and operational center for our Starship.”

The former Brownsville Community Foundation announced a free program Monday to provide tablet-based internet connectivity to Brownsville Independent School District students — as the Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation — and to low-income Valley residents.

MERCEDES — Father Rene Angel of Sacred Heart Catholic Church has found a new use for the enormous altar he had made for Día De Los Muertos.

SAN BENITO — The San Benito Economic Development Corporation’s new board of directors is searching for the agency’s next director, hoping to stop the high turnover rate that’s eaten into the department for more than 10 years.

A 53-year-old Pharr man was arrested Friday after an English Bulldog he had injected with medicine died a short time after, according to a probable cause affidavit.

A 37-year-old man from California is dead after approaching a responding McAllen police officer with a knife outside the McAllen Public Library, according to a news release.

San Juan Municipal Judge Nereida Lopez-Singleterry has announced she is running to be judge of the 476th state District Court, Hidalgo County’s newest court.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Brownsville, announced on Monday that he will seek another term in Congress.