Tag: Donna

A Donna resident is seeing green after claiming a Powerball prize worth $1 million for the March 18 drawing, according to a media release from the Texas Lottery.

A Donna man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife with a machete last year.

Several housing authorities across the Rio Grande Valley were recently awarded funding for maintenance and modernization.

DONNA — The M. Rivas Primary Discovery Academy at Donna ISD in its second year of operation won the H-E-B Excellence in Education Early Childhood Award thus receiving $25,000, a testament for cultivating students.

In about two years, motorists in the Mid-Valley might start to see a new sight — a stream of fully loaded commercial trucks heading northward along Farm-to-Market Road 493 from the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a 32-year-old Mexican man living in Donna to six years in prison for possessing 43 videos of child sexual abuse material.

Rio Grande Valley voters will have one more chance to cast their vote for the May 4 elections with the conclusion of early voting on Tuesday.

HARLINGEN — Some Texas State Technical College students from the Harlingen location medaled at the recent 2024 SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary State Leadership and Skills Conference in Houston.

Early voting is underway in several municipal elections across Hidalgo County. Residents are being asked to choose new leaders, amending the rules that govern their city, or taking on decades’ worth of debt to finance public infrastructure.

DONNA — Faced with more than $40 million worth of sorely needed infrastructure improvements that officials here can’t find outside funding for, Donna is instead trying to offset projected costs by raising utility rates.