TSTC graduate aims to flourish in surgical technology career
HARLINGEN — Amiel Basave of La Feria began her career as a surgical technologist with Rio Grande Regional Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center a few...
Extraordinary contributions: Harlingen doctor of veterinary medicine receives public health award
HARLINGEN — A local doctor with a passion for veterinary medicine and a desire to educate about the subject area was recently awarded for...
Mexican peso is on a skid; Buying power decreases with value
Mexico’s economy is shrinking and dragging down the value of the peso, which is never good news for businesses on this side of the...
Motion for early release denied; Dora Cisneros to serve out life sentence
It appears that an 83-year-old Brownsville woman convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her daughter’s ex-boyfriend in March of 1993 will spend...
‘Life changed completely’: Mission family’s world turned upside down after dad’s death
MISSION — After losing her husband earlier this year, Zelene Olivarez is now facing the challenges of single parenting, the effects of losing a...
State suspends Escobares associate municipal judge without pay
A municipal judge from the city of Escobares was suspended by the State Commission of Judicial Conduct as a result of an indictment handed...
McAllen mother, son charged in fatal Edinburg drug shooting
A 23-year-old man killed early on Dec. 5 had only recently moved to the Rio Grande Valley when a member of an active street...
Esperanza Homes breaks ground on new Weslaco subdivision
Esperanza Homes and the Weslaco Chamber of Commerce broke ground Tuesday on the city’s newest residential subdivision. The development, Texas Heights, will eventually host...
Skewed numbers: Valley’s high vaccination rate factors outside groups
HARLINGEN — Public health officials driving one of the state’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rates are aiming at vaccinating more than 100 percent of the...
‘It felt amazing’: Nearly 4,000 graduate as UTRGV commencement ceremonies return indoors
EDINBURG — Graduations at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley continued to shift back toward some sense of pre-pandemic normalcy with three commencement...