Tag: Cameron County

An escape-artist bear from Missouri is headed to a Texas zoo with a moat in hopes that it will put an end to his wandering.

The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley announced that it was awarded a $75,000 grant from the Morgan Stanley Foundation.

A wind advisory issued for inland Willacy and Cameron counties and coastal Willacy and Cameron Counties has been extended until 3 p.m. today. Southwest winds...

LYFORD — Devin Johnston grabbed a handful of apple wood chips and placed them inside the fire chamber of the bee smoker on the tailgate of a truck.

LYFORD — Dawn and Devin Johnston are the mother-daughter tandem who own and operate R9 Hive & Honey. Together, they respond to calls for bee removals throughout the entire Rio Grande Valley, and sometimes as far as Corpus Christi.

While the fate of the man suspected of selling a weapon used in the fatal Matamoros kidnapping of four U.S. citizens unravels before a federal court, the problem of gun smuggling underscored by the arrest will likely continue.

Osiel Cardenas Jr., the son of drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a gun smuggling charge, federal court records reflect.

McALLEN — There will soon be over 100,000 more households and businesses connected to the 21st century thanks to a $200 million, privately funded fiber optic project.

HARLINGEN — After about two years of planning, the city’s project aimed at bridging a digital divide that’s swallowed about a third of households here is on hold.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX 34th District) and U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX 19th District) introduced a bipartisan piece of legislation to permanently expand access to emergency medical care for Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid beneficiaries.