The Monitor

EDINBURG — As Driscoll Children's Hospital Rio Grande Valley prepares to open its doors in May, hospital officials have been giving tours of the facility including Saturday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was in town to see what's being hailed as a new state-of-the-art pediatric institution that the region has sorely needed.

Melissa Lucio could have been dead by now, executed for a crime she might not have committed. Now that her case is being reviewed, let us hope that all parties to the case — prosecution and defense — pursue true justice if a new trial is ordered.

According to data from Donate Life America and the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration, as many as 17 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant while there are still 103,223 people who are currently on the national transplant waiting list, and a person is added every eight minutes.

SAN ANTONIO — Rio Grande Valley athletes flocked Friday to Heroes Stadium and San Antonio for Day 1 of the Region IV-5A and 6A...

Just two weeks after Edinburg announced the pending departure of Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, officials moved toward changing how the city attorney office will function.

WESLACO — In 1921, a major fire swept through downtown here, frightening the pioneers who had founded Weslaco just two years earlier.

A 33-year-old San Juan woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for trying to smuggle 39 guns and 38 ammunition magazines into Mexico.

In Peru, food is not just a source of sustenance, but a reflection of the country's rich cultural heritage and "Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey" by UTRGV's own Robert Bradley is a journey of 25 years into his knowledge, experience and appreciation of Peruvian cuisine and its fascinating lore.

MXLAN is returning more colorful, vibrant and festive than before with musical guests performing in what has been officially dubbed the Pepsi Music Stage.

Unlike SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's first two live Starship presentations at the company's Boca Chica/Starbase production and testing complex, members of the media were not invited to an April 4 presentation at the site, only SpaceX employees.