TBB Staff

HESTEC launched the start of yearlong festivities on Friday with the annual SeaPerch Challenge, held at the Brownsville ISD Margaret M. Clark Aquatic Center.

The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) announced on Friday that 26 student-athletes at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley competing in the fall sports of men’s and women’s cross country and soccer, as well as volleyball, are Fall Academic All-WAC honorees.

 Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Second Court of Appeals, urging the court to reverse a lower court’s order and grant baby T.L.’s family a temporary injunction until the case is resolved to protect the baby’s life.

U.S. Border Patrol agents disrupted two narcotic smuggling attempts in the Rio Grande Valley.

Rep. Filemon Vela visited Naval Air Station Kingsville, where he learned about plans to improve access and security to the main gate and about the need for updated facilities for Fire and Emergency Services on base

The House passed a 2020 funding bill in December, which included a total of $7.5 million in funds for TX-34 parks and national refuges.

McAllen Public Library invites children, teens, and adults to sign up for the 2020 Winter Reading Challenge. The program begins Monday, January 20 and runs through Friday, February 28, 2020.

Congressman Filemon Vela (D-TX) will host six pinning ceremonies throughout Texas 34 to honor Vietnam veterans.

Approximately 70 student spellers from the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District recently competed to advance to the Rio Grande Valley Regional Spelling Bee.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed in the San Antonio Express-News praising the passage of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and all the good it will do for Texas