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Trevino: Mask mandate should be lifted when vaccine available to everyone

Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. said he would have preferred for Gov. Greg Abbott to have waited another 60 to 90 days to...

Registration begins for 10,000 COVID shots at UTRGV

UT Health RGV has reopened its online COVID-19 vaccine registration form to the public, to the first 10,000 registrants who qualify under the recently...

LETTER: Staged ‘insurrection’

Leading up to the 2020 election, there were numerous Trump boat parades on bays, rivers, and lakes all across America that received no coverage...

LETTER: Windfall profits tax

I have read a number of articles regarding “who will/how to” absorb the tens of billions of dollars in additional electricity costs related to...

LETTER: Light of freedom

Once again, Donald Trump’s MAGA indoctrination shows its ugly head. Trump’s buzz words “disease carrying illegals” are parroting by his sycophant followers. We as a...

Cameron County reports 7 virus deaths

Seven more Cameron County residents have died from COVID-19 related causes, the county health department reported Thursday. The individuals included one person in his 40s,...

Despite lifting of restrictions, Island sticks to ‘Family Spring Break’

Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s lifting of restrictions related to COVID-19, South Padre Island tourism officials say they will follow through with plans for limits...

High numbers might force Harlingen to house COVID-19 migrants

HARLINGEN — The city’s homeless shelter might be forced to move Central American migrants testing positive for the coronavirus into Harlingen’s community center if...

Police: Drugs seized during search of Harlingen apartment

Harlingen Police say they seized narcotics Friday morning after serving a search warrant at a residential apartment on the 500 block of W. Polk...

315 Texas COVID-19 deaths reported as toll nears 44,000

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas reported 315 more deaths Thursday from the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 as the state's pandemic death toll neared...