Tag: Los Indios

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Cameron County on Friday announced a formal partnership to build a small-scale infrastructure improvement project at the Free Trade Bridge in Los Indios.

Early voting for the Nov. 7 Special Joint Election is under way in Cameron County as of Monday, with city elections, tax rate propositions and state constitutional amendments on the ballot for voters to decide.

BROWNSVILLE — Tax bills are hitting the mailboxes.

HARLINGEN — For decades, local leaders have dreamed of developing a main trade corridor linking area cities with an international bridge into Mexico.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on July 18 sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Director Troy Miller asking him to address what Gonzalez says is an intermittent but recurring issue of excessive wait times at land ports-of-entry in Brownsville.

Here's a rundown of the May 6, 2023 elections in Hidalgo County and Cameron County cities, school districts and local entities.

Twenty elections for cities, school districts and other entities in the Rio Grande Valley have as of Monday drawn more than 20,000 voters over the course of seven days during early voting.

A thunderstorm that ripped through the Rio Grande Valley overnight Friday and into early Saturday morning left tens of thousands without power with no immediate relief in sight, and caused havoc in city streets, residential and business property as a deluge of rain and hail drenched the region.

A 33-year-old Los Indios man is out on bond following his arrest on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

The Department of Justice has charged a dozen people, including the son-in-law of a former Gulf Cartel leader, with extorting at least $27 million from transmigrantes and using threats of violence to include four murders in Mexico to monopolize the border industry.