The Brownsville Herald

For this week’s South Texas Flavor, I had the chance to explore the versatile world of potatoes by visiting Papas & Papas— and you guessed it. It’s about to get cheesy, buttery, creamy and whatever else you like in your Papa Asadas.

The South Texas Ecotourism Center is inviting the public to participate in its “Moth Night & Creepy Critter Tours” event this Friday evening.

Cool off and do a good deed. That's the idea as Dairy Queens in the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi areas will be donating 50% of all Blizzard sales to Driscoll Children's Hospital on Thursday.

In a little more than a week, Americans have been forced to come to grips with the possibility of losing both major presidential candidates — scarcely more than three months before the election. Republican Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a July 13 campaign rally, and eight days later Democrat Joe Biden, the incumbent, ended his reelection campaign in response to mounting concerns about signs of physical, and possible cognitive, deterioration.

Over the years, there has been no shortage of political bashing of the biopharmaceutical industry. At the national level, the Inflation Reduction Act will impose the first-ever federal price controls on certain drugs, with the current administration pushing for even more draconian measures. We even see it here in Texas, where the state legislature last year passed a measure to import price-controlled prescription drugs from Canada.

There’s still time to take advantage of free or discounted pet adoptions at the Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center (BARCC).

The Brownsville Independent School District will host Operation Border Health Preparedness this week at Rivera Early College High School, 6955 FM 802.

McAllen’s Quinta Mazatlán is prepared to take visitors back in time with this week’s Thursday Night Live.

A Brownsville man was arrested Friday after Border Patrol agents discovered multiple people illegally present in the United States, including a 6-year-old girl, inside his tractor-trailer, according to a criminal complaint.

The Brownsville Police Department is investigating after someone got information from a child playing an online game and then made a threat in order to send a SWAT team to the child’s residence.