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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.

Former Texas Longhorns quarterback Vince Young will be the guest speaker for the Weslaco ISD College Decision Day event Friday.

A 22-year-old Alamo man who allegedly posed as a 16-year-old Monte Alto school district student has been arrested.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship.

SAN BENITO — Freddy Fender Lane filled with song Saturday as a crowd seated in folding chairs or standing, with some swaying to the beat of music, joined Margarita Huerta Fender and her brother Isidro Huerta as they sang “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” famously recorded by their uncle Baldemar Garza Huerta, the singer better known as Freddy Fender.