The Brownsville Herald

The Rio Grande Valley is getting what educators and medical professionals say will be the first Registered Nurse Apprenticeship Track, which they hope will help address the current local and national nursing shortage.

Ten-thousand, one-hundred and fifteen. This is the number of people currently on the transplant waiting list in the state of Texas alone with about 40% of them being minorities, according to Donate Life America.

Thirty-two graduating high school seniors from Brownsville area public and private high schools each will receive $1,000 scholarships through the Brownsville Navigation District’s 2024 Port of Brownsville Scholarship program.

A war of words has raged for years over where people can get the best tacos, especially breakfast tacos — Austin or San Antonio. Each city has its defenders who are quick to post their preferences on various social media sites.

Two top Republican representatives and community chairman have expressed strong concern about Russian and Chinese influencing Republican members of the House of Representatives.

BC Workshop and Come Dream Come Build, formerly the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, officially launched their DreamBuild modular affordable housing program in Los Fresnos on Thursday.

Brownsville ISD will hold three school renaming committee meetings on Thursday to decide what to call the recently consolidated elementary schools in Southmost: Cromack and Josephine Castaneda, Rosa E. Del Castillo and Morningside, and Judge Reynaldo G. Garza and Southmost.

Remember when the federal government reclassified ketchup as a vegetable to make school lunch offerings comply with nutritional guidelines? The Reagan-era move enabled schools to use the condiment as a larger element when preparing students’ meals, for example.

When Garth Stevenson, a nature musician and composer, carried his 6-foot-tall double bass instrument with him to Antarctica, he had a life-changing experience when he imitated whale calls on his instrument. He ended up drawing 12 sei whales to the edge of the icebreaker where he stood making music. Having grown up in the mountains of Western Canada, Stevenson has always connected his music to nature, but this experience in Antarctica revealed the two-way connection between humans and our natural world.

WESLACO — Wanting to try something new and different, I came to Lê Phở House — a Vietnamese kitchen in Weslaco — with an open mind and I left with a stomach full of delicious noodles, broth, beef and a curiosity into a new cuisine.