Texas focusing on ‘super senior’ vaccination
Vaccine providers administering COVID-19 doses throughout Texas will be using new strategies to ensure more people who are 75 years old or older receive...
Coming Together: Local churches partner to deliver food
More than 20 churches in Brownsville are working with El Campo Initiative to deliver food to those who need it the most during the...
Congressman calls for guard to aid border communities in vaccine distribution
As local officials continue their push for more COVID-19 vaccine doses, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has urged Gov. Greg Abbott to send Texas National...
BISD meal distribution continues
The Brownsville Independent School District announced that meals will continue to be distributed at elementary schools.
The Food and Nutrition Services Department will continue to...
18 BISD Schools Named to Educational Results Partnership Honor Roll
Eighteen Brownsville Independent School District schools have been named to the 2019–2020 Educational Results Partnership Honor Roll, and BISD is one of 300 public...
Asylum-seeking families being released in Valley
BROWNSVILLE — Five migrant families released from federal custody Wednesday morning waited for their bus in an outdoor area set up at the Brownsville...
Doctors stress importance of receiving COVID-10 vaccine
As health and government officials throughout the Rio Grande Valley continue to plan COVID-19 vaccination events as supply permits, area physicians are encouraging local...
Texas temporarily blocked from kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid
By Shannon Najmabadi, Texas Tribune
A state district judge in Travis County has temporarily stopped Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program,...
Authorities discover dead reptiles in vehicle
During a recent examination, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and agriculture specialists at Brownsville Port of Entry came across a grim, unusual...
Brownsville to host first vaccination clinic on Friday
The City of Brownsville will offer its first city-led vaccination clinic starting at 6 a.m. Friday at the Texas Southmost College ITEC center, where...