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The future looks bright in Edinburg, Hidalgo County’s second-largest city, and officials here are doing what they can to continue that trend.

A 31-year-old Edcouch man who shot and killed his common-law wife before fatally shooting his mother-in-law on New Year’s Eve in 2020 was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday.

McALLEN — With city staffing numbers expected to rise by nearly 80% over the next 20 years, officials here are mulling how best to meet the growing need for space at an already cramped city hall building where some departments have been forced to office elsewhere.

EDINBURG — An 18-year-old Edcouch man accused of strangling his one-year-old son to death made a first appearance Wednesday afternoon at the city’s municipal court.

HARLINGEN — After about seven years of planning, the multi-million-dollar project to build the city’s first public transit center is hitting a big snag.

A former Southwest Key employee is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday in McAllen federal court on a three-count indictment accusing him of sexually abusing three migrant children on airplanes.

Hidalgo County has added another tool in their evergrowing arsenal created to address the chronic jail overcrowding issue that’s been plaguing the county for decades.

The National Weather Service in Brownsville says there is a potential for severe weather in the Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas on Sunday, just two days after a storm whipped through the region briefly but significantly drenching the Mission and McAllen area and dropping large hail.

HARLINGEN — A $100 million, 100-megawatt battery storage plant geared to charge as many as 50,000 homes during a power outage is set to open off about 6 acres of farmland near Valley International Airport.

Candidates for the two contested races in the upcoming Sharyland school board election met at a forum Tuesday that featured talk on safety, enrollment and the possibility of another bond push.