TBB Staff

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)and Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Filemon Vela (TX-34), and Henry Cuellar (TX-28), today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar requesting that the federal government provide additional federal resources, including a new field hospital, to help respond to the surge of coronavirus cases in the Rio Grande Valley.

U.S. Border Patrol discovers stash house operation in rural South Texas neighborhood.

Governor Greg Abbott today issued a proclamation extending his Disaster Declaration for all Texas counties in response to COVID-19.

As COVID-19 cases continue to spike around the Rio Grande Valley, the RGV FC Toros have made the decision to play without fans in attendance for the Friday, July 17 reOpener against San Antonio FC.

While things have not been easy for anyone over the last few months, the leadership of the Laredo Chamber of Commerce is betting on one trait that has helped Laredo overcome difficult situations in the past – the resiliency of its people.

The Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council Corporation (LRGVDC) was awarded two federal grants to help transit providers in both the Harlingen and McAllen Urbanized Areas (UZAs) continue to operate throughout the novel coronavirus outbreak, U.S. Senator John Cornyn announced today.

On July 1, 2020, South Texas College sold a total of $41 million in Limited Ad Valorem Tax Refunding Bonds which saved the College and taxpayers more than $3.6 million in debt service providing a reduction in ad valorem taxes to the residents in Hidalgo and Starr Counties.

An estimated 32 trillion gallons of water pollution per year (Nature Conservancy, Summer 2019) and many millions of dollars per year in EPA fines are caused by rainwater entering and then overloading our wastewater systems.

Judicial Watch announced it received records from the U.S. Secret Service showing that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a Secret Service protective detail.

A research team is the first in Texas to investigate whether plasma from COVID-19 survivors can be used in outpatient settings to prevent the onset and progression of the virus in two new clinical trials at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).