TBB Staff

HARLINGEN, Texas - Texas State Technical College’s Workforce Training department will update its commercial driver’s license (CDL) training to meet compliance as an accredited program for the new Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) that will take effect Feb. 7, 2022, and be overseen by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

EDINBURG, Texas - The Rio Grande Valley chapter of the Tx Society of CPAs will be visiting Palm Valley Animal Society on Saturday, November 6th, where 40-50 students from UTRGV and their CPA mentors will spend the afternoon interacting and walking the dogs of PVAS.

Laredo College Police Department organized a sweet morning to interact with employees, students and guests to answer all their questions regarding law enforcement and the duties that they perform at our institution.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) today sent a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, voicing concerns about a caravan of over 3,000 illegal immigrants approaching the U.S. and urging the Biden administration to enforce federal immigration laws to address the border crisis on the Southwest border.

If you farm or ranch for a living, by now, you’ve almost certainly heard the term WOTUS, which stands for Waters of the United States. The subject of regulatory and legal battles for most of the last decade, the saga continues.

The holidays, as well as birthdays and other celebrations, are often difficult for anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one, particularly during the first year of adjusting to life without them.

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents made 549,077 migrant encounters in Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21), accounting for 33% of all Border Patrol apprehensions nationwide. That astounding number is higher than the USBP total number of encounters for the previous two years combined.

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents made 29 arrests and seized over 230 pounds of marijuana inside a stash house located in Roma with the assistance of Starr County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO). Agents also seized a gun from the driver of a migrant load vehicle at the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint.

Omar Guevara is quite a hotel operator; the industry is challenging, but he knows how it works. He accepted the position of general manager of the Radisson McAllen Airport Hotel while it was still under construction.

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas – Dr. David Bowles can relate. An associate professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UTRGV, his latest book, My Two Border Towns, reminisces about life on the border through the eyes of an empathetic child.