RGV LEAD has been awarded a $19,500 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation to support the implementation of the Hidalgo County Criminal Justice Career and Legal Education Pipeline Initiative. 

A new alignment between Texas policy and federal funding is creating, officials say, a significant opportunity to reshape workforce training in the Rio Grande Valley.

For South Texas College student Martin Lopez, returning to school was never about starting over. It was about unlocking the full potential of everything he had already built.

Nearly 3,000 cadets participated in the U.S. Air Force Academy's spring culminating exercise in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 15-18. 

Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into leading streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music, over alleged payola schemes in which they accept bribes to artificially promote certain songs, artists, or content. 

Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) announced Itzel Martinez, a senior from Rivera Early College High School, as the winner of the 2026 Congressional Art Competition for Texas’s 34th Congressional District. Her artwork will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

Eight illegal aliens and members of the violent transnational criminal organization Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, have been sentenced for participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included witness tampering and multiple murders of individuals as young as 14.

The City of Brownsville’s Information Technology Department has been awarded nearly $22 million in grant funding through the Texas Middle Mile Program to support a major expansion of its Broadband Fiber Project.

People continue to come to Texas, and the state’s largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are where most of them are landing (almost 88% in the top four alone).

Born and raised in Starr County, South Texas College Secretary Daniela Vielma is now helping shape the people who protec