Valley Morning Star

Cameron County Commissioners Court Tuesday was able to balance the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget without having to raise taxes but raises department heads sought for their employees and new positions were not included in the budget.

From historic Silk Stocking Row and the Jackson Street business district to blocks of old neighborhoods, District 2’s residents get their chance Thursday to speak out during a town hall meeting aimed at addressing their concerns.

SAN BENITO — A former city employee faces theft charges after police accused him of stealing a city-owned generator and chainsaws, officials said.

The Institute for Justice has petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to take up the case of three Valley food truck operators who sued the City of South Padre Island over rules limiting the number of trucks to 18 and requiring an endorsement from a local restaurant owner to obtain a permit.

Multiple Coast Guard law enforcement crews detected and interdicted three Mexican lancha boat crews illegally fishing in federal waters off South Texas on Tuesday.

HARLINGEN — A husband, wife and son are facing drug charges after officers searched a West Pierce Avenue home, Harlingen police said.

RIO HONDO — A Rio Hondo man is accused of the indecent assault of a woman at a store before police arrested him following five hours of negotiations after he barricaded himself in his house.

College football, (slightly) cooler temperatures, and the opening of hunting season make Labor Day weekend one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.

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...