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HARLINGEN — Area leaders testified April 11 before lawmakers in support of legislation calling for revised funding criteria aimed at upgrading the low-income area’s drainage system.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, whose district includes Cameron County, and Alex Mooney of West Virginia introduced H.R. 2568, the Improvement of Mapping, Addresses, Geography, Elevation and Structures Act of 2023, a bipartisan bill that would include property level detail in flood maps, allowing individuals as well as governments to know with certainty their risk and proactively prepare for natural disasters.

An Edinburg man was drinking at the Jaguars Club before crashing into the Hidalgo County Courthouse Saturday morning while driving 70 mph, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest.

HARLINGEN — Valley View Senior Living resident Phyllis Ford will be turning 100 on April 14.

McALLEN — With summer right around the corner, the city of McAllen is hoping its newest park amenity will help make a splash.

McALLEN — Texas A&M University announced Monday that longtime Valley Baptist Health System CEO Manny Vela is taking a leadership position at the university’s Higher Education Center as it continues to grow its footprint locally.

The Rio Grande LNG terminal that NextDecade Corporation wants to build between State Highway 4 and the Brownsville Ship Channel is the subject of a public open house being held Thursday, April 13, in Port Isabel.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Easter detained a Mexican lancha and its crew while seizing approximately 1,000 pounds of illegally caught shark.

Bean the Cat is at it again.

An argument between a couple at a building supplies store in Palmview Monday ended in a suspected murder-suicide, the Palmview police chief confirmed.