It's a cold morning at the new open-space welding lab at the STC Higher Education Center at La Joya and like other students, Celso Olivares is getting ready for the day.

The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring in the Mission area for the 2020 census. The temporary census jobs offer excellent pay, flexible hours and paid training.

The 30th Annual Texas Onion Fest is scheduled for Saturday, March 23 at Mayor Pablo Peña City Park, celebrating a milestone year as Weslaco’s trademark event.

Maestro Peter Dabrowski and the Valley Symphony Orchestra announced their season finale: The 3B’s: Beatles, Brahms and Beethoven to be held at the McAllen Performing Arts Center located at 801 Convention Center Blvd on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 8:00 PM.

With 13 choir groups earning an award, McAllen ISD had 72 percent of its choir teams bringing home some hardware from the Middle School Choir UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Evaluation held earlier this month at PSJA Southwest High School.

Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28), a member of the Conference Committee on Homeland Security Appropriations, announced that he helped secure 50 new immigration judge teams in the fiscal year 2019 appropriations package.

The City of Mission ranks as the safest city in the Rio Grande Valley and among the safest cities in the state of Texas - according to safehome.org

South Texas College hosted the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, assisting the community with free income tax preparations.

The Board of Trustees of the Museum of South Texas History proudly announces Skipper Ranch as the site for the 2019 Heritage Ranch Gala.

McAllen Memorial High School senior, Yael Silberman, has been recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding high school leaders by the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation and has been awarded a $20,000 college scholarship.