TBB Staff

Thirty-three residents have died due to complications related to COVID-19 and 813 people tested positive for the virus, Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said Thursday. The total number of positive cases is 14,589.

A Border Patrol K-9 halts a human smuggling attempt at the checkpoint.

U.S. Border Patrol worked with the Government of Mexico (GoM) to rescue 15 migrants.

U.S. Border Patrol partners with the Hidalgo County Constables Office (HCCO) Precinct 4 to stop stash house operations in a rural South Texas neighborhood.

Today, the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) approved a request from the City of Corpus Christi (City) for $222,475,000 in multi-year financing from the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for a desalination plant in the Port of Corpus Christi's Inner Harbor Ship Channel near Port Aransas.

Three men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions for transporting and harboring illegal aliens in locked and boarded-up trailers in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Mark Dawson of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) – Houston.

It’s Frontera Churro’s one year anniversary. Running a business during a pandemic is hard enough, but being a fresh business as the globe is hit with a pandemic is almost the kiss of death.

Congressmen Filemon Vela (D-TX) and Lance Gooden (R-TX) announced the introduction of the Small Business Comeback Act, bipartisan legislation that would create a recovery fund to provide businesses with the support they need to see it through the coronavirus national emergency.

Governor Greg Abbott today issued the following statement after Tesla announced the construction of Gigafactory Texas in southeast Travis County—an electric vehicle manufacturing facility that will create at least 5,000 new jobs and generate over $1 billion in capital investment.

The innovative capacity of American enterprise is mobilizing like never before to fight this pandemic.