Tag: coronavirus (COVID-19)

McAllen city employees will receive a nice windfall just in time for Thanksgiving after the city commission unanimously approved a longevity pay bump during a meeting Tuesday.

It's no secret that there is often more work than hands at healthcare facilities across the nation, which the COVID-19 pandemic helped to further exploit in 2020, but nowhere was this more apparent at the time than in the nursing field.

Hidalgo County leaders are trying to gauge the accessibility and reliability of high-speed internet access in the region and are asking for the public’s help.

McALLEN — While Texas Governor Greg Abbott came to McAllen on Monday to tout his border initiative and related legislative priorities, officials from the city and Hidalgo County in attendance expressed concern for the impending end of the pandemic-related immigration policy known as Title 42.

While Texas Governor Greg Abbott came to McAllen on Monday to tout his border initiative and related legislative priorities, officials from the city and Hidalgo County in attendance expressed concern for the impending end of the pandemic-related immigration policy known as Title 42.

Come Dream Come Build wants residents of Cameron and Willacy counties who are struggling with mortgage, utility or property tax payments to know that help is available — but not indefinitely.

McALLEN — Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a screeching halt to commerce and communities, the city’s finances have not only recovered, but have experienced healthy growth which has put the city on its best footing ever.

McALLEN — After three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic people are now enduring the effects it had on both physical and mental well-being.

MISSION — It’s been nearly three years since Manny Saenz Jr. laid his father to rest. On a recent afternoon, he visited his father’s grave, replacing the flowers and wiping down the grave marker.

The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 increased slightly this week in Hidalgo County.