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Marisa F. Leal has drawn the top spot on a May 4 special election ballot to determine the true winner of her disputed race in 2020 with Minerva M. Pena that went all the way to the Texas Supreme Court.

EDINBURG — Edinburg Vela senior athlete Jaxson Shupe announced his verbal commitment to play college football at UTRGV on Monday. Shupe was a Swiss Army...

South Texas Health System announced Wednesday the launching of a new education program and residency, its newest effort to help bridge the gap in the statewide physician shortage.

About 5.4% of the population of the Rio Grande Valley have some type of diabetes. That’s around 76,000 out of 1.4 million people, the Valley’s population as of the 2022 U.S. Census. An average of 3 in 5 of them require hospital or ER services, according to Rio Grande Regional Hospital; and research by Johns Hopkins Medicine has previously found that 54% of amputations are as a result of diseases that affect blood flow, like diabetes.

HARLINGEN — City officials are planning to reopen Harlingen's animal shelter next week, hiring staff to take over operations after at least 35 years.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has awarded $750,000 for development of the Santa Maria Community Park under the Non-Urban Outdoor Local Park Grant Program.

San Benito school district officials are considering taking steps including launching a re-construction of a $40 million bond funded project as a result of foundation flaws while finding its contractor in default of a contract as an 11th-month shutdown pushes the project at least a year behind schedule.

HARLINGEN – Everyone knows that the kids at Gutierrez Middle School of Arts and Sciences in Harlingen are talented. And now everyone else does too after coming out on top at the UIL Middle School District Tournament held Jan. 19 and 20.

The Rio Grande Valley Human Society is looking to the community for help in fostering or adopting a dog as its Mission shelter continues to crowd.

Apart from just two specialty surgeries, local patients will no longer have to travel to Corpus Christi for care once the new Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley opens its doors. And that time is coming soon.