Valley Morning Star

McALLEN — “Who’d be crazy enough to build a 50-foot guitar?” Jim Melhart said in 2004. Melhart, who died Saturday, was precisely that crazy and had just finished doing so when he said this to a reporter.

A $145.7 million cancer and surgery center could break ground at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s McAllen Academic Medical Campus as soon...

As of Monday night it was still there on the National Hurricane Center’s tropical weather outlook page, the homely little yellow circle indicating a weak tropical disturbance loitering off the coast of Belize and tracking toward South Texas, but with virtually no hope of forming into a cyclone.

A woman selling goods at a fruit stand located at FM 732 and FM 1577 in San Benito was robbed at gunpoint with the alleged thieves making off with $80 in cash and her cellphone, authorities said.

Less than a month after 53-year-old Hector Martinez Jr., of Brownsville, was accused of striking a 6-year-old boy with his vehicle on South Padre Island that left him dead, a Cameron County grand jury indicted Martinez on an intoxication manslaughter charge.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is welcoming 5,827 incoming freshmen this semester — a school record — as it heads into its third straight year with a first day enrollment of more than 32,000.

Back in June there seemed to be little hope on the horizon for motorists enduring trauma at the pump due to the high cost of gasoline.

As Cameron County Commissioner Court continues to address about a $5 million deficit and how to balance the 2022-2023 fiscal budget, two elected officials are seeking higher pay and the court will schedule a date for their grievance hearings.

The pain of losing their 23-year-old daughter who was killed by a drunk driver May 10, 2015, was too much for James and Marilyn Lane to handle.

RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County’s schools are ranking toward the top of the Rio Grande Valley’s districts amid one of the most challenging periods in education.