Senior Los Fresnos alum Jennifer Zapata broke the program record for the 3,000-meter steeplechase to lead The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) outdoor track & field teams at the 92nd annual Clyde Little Field Texas Relays on Thursday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) helped secure $11.52 million to keep the boll weevil, which plague cotton farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, at bay in the fiscal year 2019 appropriations package.

On March 29, 1973, the last remaining members of the United States armed forces withdrew from Vietnam and returned home. To commemorate this day, in 2009, I passed legislation to designate March 29 as Texas Vietnam Veterans Day.

Futuro RGV and McAllen ISD will be hosting a training session titled "Parenting your Cyber Teen" at the McAllen Convention Center on Thursday, April 11

South Texas College’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus will be hosting its open house March 30.

Following the massacre at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Robin Kelly (IL-02) in the House and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) in the Senate, have introduced legislation to address the growing threat of white supremacists and other violent right-wing extremists.

This Spring, Taco Palenque is kicking off it's fundraising efforts to help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® continue to lead the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

UTRGV will feature world-renowned performers at its 2019 Flute and Clarinet Festival, Saturday, April 6, at the Performing Arts Center on the Edinburg Campus.

For the second year in a row, the City of McAllen was not only the winner for its size category in the IT’S TIME TEXAS (ITT) Community Challenge, which ended March 4 but also, the top point getter in the entire state of Texas.

To learn more about this history, the community is welcome to attend “Mexicana/Chicana/Latina Activism and Leadership: An Historical Overview,” a Sunday Speaker Series presentation featuring Maritza De La Trinidad, April 7 at 2 p.m. at the Museum of South Texas History.