The Monitor

Former Mission City Councilmember Norie Gonzalez Garza is currently leading in the race for Mission mayor with the early and absentee votes placing here ahead of current Mayor Armando O’Caña.

Progreso ISD says it can’t comment on a security officer whose employment at the district was terminated after allegations were reported by a parent.

The National Republican Congressional Committee announced Wednesday that it is injecting nearly $3 million into fall television advertisement buys targeting Democrats in the Rio Grande Valley’s congressional districts.

WESLACO — Residents here looking for a bite to eat will soon have a lot more variety to choose from after a 10-acre retail plaza is constructed on the corner of North Bridge Avenue and Expressway 83.

EDINBURG — “We wish we didn’t have to have a presentation like this.”

McAllen ISD board trustees may reconsider their $4 million commitment to the Quinta Mazatlan expansion project. Two trustees said at a budget workshop Monday that they thought the decision should be revisited and one said, given the district’s current budgetary struggles, he’d oppose the commitment this time around.

If campaign contributions equaled votes, Republicans don’t stand a chance in Texas congressional District 28 in November.

Drivers will soon notice a change to the I-2/ I-69 Interchange when the project begins its next phase of construction.

Anyone planning to visit the Gladys Porter Zoo on Saturday might want to bring cash or a checkbook.

The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas will hold a half-day open government seminar in Edinburg Monday that will include training for the state’s open meetings and public records laws.