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Mayor Adrian Gonzalez said Weslaco is placing engineering and long-term planning at the center of its infrastructure strategy, replacing temporary repairs with projects designed to provide lasting solutions to flooding and support future growth.

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory for election integrity as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a federal district court ruling that upheld challenges to key provisions of Texas’s Election Integrity Act, Senate Bill (“SB 1”).

The U.S. Central Command announced efforts to establish the first multidomain, multinational attack drone task force.

Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34), joined by Mayor David Moreno and officials from the City of Donna, delivered $2 million in Fiscal Year 2026 Community Project Funding he secured for Phase Two construction of the Donna Multi-Purpose Sports Complex.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that small businesses across the energy production supply chain are now eligible for a new 90% Energy Guarantee through the SBA International Trade Loan (ITL) Program.

Every August, the familiar rituals occur. In households across America, the lists come out.  Writing utensils, new calculators, lunch boxes, gym shoes, and new clothes. Kids have opinions, and prices are higher than you remember.

The statewide results are relatively stable compared with 2025, without the large year-over-year shifts seen in some previous rating cycles.

A utility contractor has scheduled the removal of de-energized power lines over the expressway in San Benito for Sunday, August 30, requiring lane closures and rolling stops for traffic on the main lanes and frontage roads, between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Governor Greg Abbott announced that Galaxy, Compass Datacenters, Montera Infrastructure, Amazon, Lancium and Cipher Digital will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers.

Nearly 34,000 students will return to classrooms across 51 IDEA Public Schools campuses in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) when the 2026–27 school year begins on Monday, August 17.