Tag: Weslaco

WESLACO — Visitors from across the Rio Grande Valley gathered here to celebrate Weslaco’s annual onion festival. The temperature was in the low 80s,...

Rio Grande Valley residents are just days away from getting their onion blossom on.

RGV Boys State Alumni Group sponsors interviewed this year’s Texas Boys State finalists for 2023 Statesmen recently at Hidalgo County Precinct 1 Conference Center in Weslaco. Precinct 1 County Commissioner David Fuentes hosted the event.

Felix Jimenez is a 2021 Rio Grande Valley Teach For America corps member and a 7th grade social studies teacher at Vanguard Rembrandt Secondary in Pharr.

EDINBURG — While the criminal case against two men accused of bribing Weslaco public officials in exchange for economic incentives drew closer to a conclusion this week, those men remain embroiled in a civil lawsuit over the same conspiracy.

The Weslaco Border Patrol Station has launched a new campaign to assist in combating local human and narcotics smuggling in the area.

Federal prosecutors have dropped additional charges they had levied against a Weslaco cross-border businessman who, in October 2022, was convicted of defrauding the city of Weslaco.

The public library in Weslaco will celebrate the life and legacy of its namesake, the late Mayor Joe V. Sanchez, with a book festival Saturday afternoon.

Performance Services Inc., the Indiana-based energy services company at the center of a massive public corruption scandal in western Hidalgo County, has reached a settlement with one of its former contractors.

The rank and file of the Weslaco Fire Department have lost confidence in their leaders and worry that they may not be able to continue safely serving city residents unless changes are made soon.