The City of Pharr will be providing self-serve sandbags to residents in anticipation of inclement weather expected and at the start of the 2020 hurricane season.

The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on Tuesday to raise the amount of federal relief funds it is allotting to the 22 municipalities in the county. Each city will receive an allotment at a rate of $132 per capita with $18 of those dollars to be held in reserve for unforeseen future needs related to the pandemic.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced on Wednesday that the men’s and women’s basketball teams will play at least three games at Bert Ogden Arena, including a doubleheader against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 2 and a men’s game against three-time defending Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Champion New Mexico State on Feb. 18.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, on Sunday applauded astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on successfully completing the first launch into space from U.S. soil in nearly a decade and the first launch on a commercially-created spacecraft in American history.

Former Rep. Verónica Gonzáles, D-McAllen, is among 24 renowned area residents who have applied for one of seven vacant powerful positions on the Board of Directors for the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, which is the jobs-creation arm of the Edinburg City Council.

Governor Greg Abbott today held a press conference in Dallas where he provided an update on Texas' response to protest violence across the state.

Rio Grande Valley agents discover a human smuggling stash house and foil two human smuggling attempts.

The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on Tuesday to raise the amount of federal relief funds it is allotting to the 22 municipalities in the county.

The City of Brownsville was awarded a federal grant of $7,599,697 to help transit providers continue to operate throughout the novel coronavirus outbreak, U.S. Senator John Cornyn announced today.

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, hurricane season is now in progress. No one told the storms, though.