The Brownsville Herald

Twenty elections for cities, school districts and other entities in the Rio Grande Valley have as of Monday drawn more than 20,000 voters over the course of seven days during early voting.

Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.

The Biden administration will send 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border starting next week, ahead of an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus pandemic-era restrictions.

A 58-year-old Hemet, California, man has pleaded guilty to passing more than $1 million in counterfeit U.S. savings bonds during three years at banks in Brownsville and Houston, the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brownsville announced.

Investigators with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention have linked Gold Medal flour as the source of a salmonella outbreak, officials say. 

At the start of Law Enforcement Appreciation Month, a contingent of officers gathered Monday morning at the Brownsville Convention & Visitors Bureau to raise the Brownsville Police Department flag to honor the policing profession.

A group of national and local environmental organizations on Monday filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly “failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms resulting from the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy launch program at Boca Chica.”

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on Monday announced more than $11 million in grants for water projects in Brownsville, La Feria, Donna and Hidalgo County.

Three boaters who were initially reported missing by their families were found Saturday 30 miles northeast of South Padre Island by the Coast Guard.

Shelters in a Texas city struggled to find space Saturday for migrants who authorities say have abruptly begun crossing by the thousands from Mexico, testing a stretch of the U.S. border that is typically equipped to handle large groups of people fleeing poverty and violence.