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The items inside the handbags that DHR Health donated to domestic violence shelters in the Rio Grande Valley were largely comprised of feminine hygiene products, such as toiletries including razors, toothbrushes and body wash but also some perfume, hair brushes and manicure sets — plenty of what someone needs to feel good about themselves.

As the time for making New Year’s resolutions grows closer, the American Red Cross, Texas Gulf Coast Region, asks the community to consider volunteering in 2024.

The destination that calls itself the state’s fireworks capital is prepared to do what they do best this Sunday.

A Donna area woman is dead and her common-law husband who is believed to have fled to Mexico is suspected of killing her during what Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies called a domestic dispute.

HARLINGEN — There’s a new animal shelter opening in town.

Emanuel Martinez still remembers the first request for help that his new nonprofit organization received. It was November 2022, and Operation Christmas RGV was, and still is, a fledgling charity whose aim is to “spread hope and joy” throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is later in getting to Brownsville for recycling than earlier anticipated.

EDINBURG — I was asked to do a sort of New Years Eve-themed review of a local restaurant. I was also told that I need to stop reviewing Mexican and barbecue restaurants.

Hidalgo County officials have decided where the second of three ambulances purchased with federal COVID-19 relief dollars will go.

A Mission business is appealing to the community for assistance after a family recently lost their belongings in a fire.