Dunkin heralds return of pumpkin spice products to create those fall feels
Pumpkin spice products which signals that the Autumn season is approaching is beginning to make their return to area eateries and coffee shops. In this case, Dunkin has already announced its fall menu.
Monitor, Star, Herald reducing print editions in digital pivot
New audience demands in an ever-evolving media landscape has prompted AIM Media Texas to reduce its print editions for The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald from five days a week to a semi-weekly format publishing only Wednesdays and Saturdays, which would serve as a weekend edition.
EDITORIAL: Effort to help refugee process should inspire reform efforts
One of the major failings of President Joe Biden’s efforts to cull down the number of asylum cases is its primary mandate, that refugees must initiate their petitions within their home countries or another country through which they travel to get to the United States.
Abbott joins RGV leaders to mark regional alliance poised to be ‘next economic powerhouse’
EDINBURG — Transformational. Unprecedented. Tremendous. A new era.
Photo Gallery: Abbott joins RGV leaders to mark regional alliance poised to be ‘next...
EDINBURG — Mayors from the Valley’s 47 cities gathered at Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg on Thursday for an RGV Economic Summit.
StartUp Texas wins SBA grant: $300K will fund competitions over three years
A collaboration between the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment (TEES) just got a boost from the U.S. Small Business Administration in the form of a $300,000 grant.
$1.2 billion Kleberg County facility to help cut carbon dioxide
SARITA — The U.S. Department of Energy is investing $1.2 billion to develop the nation's first two commercial-scale direct air capture facilities here in South Texas, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez said in a news release.
Brownsville man accused of murdering common law wife over jealousy
Authorities arrested a Brownsville area man Thursday morning on allegations of murdering his common law wife because of “jealousy problems.”
Canadian woman who sent ricin letters to Trump, RGV agencies gets 22 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian woman was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison in Washington Thursday in the mailing of a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President Donald Trump at the White House.
ERCOT calls for energy conservation with Texas projected to break power demand records
DALLAS — Texas’ electrical grid operator ERCOT is asking residents and businesses to cut back on energy usage Thursday as the state faces record power demand with extremely high temperatures.
