We estimate that the Texas oil and gas business and related industries generate nearly two million jobs around Texas when multiplier effects are considered (as described in a recent column).

As Nieto, Trudeau, and Trump signed the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) many months of long negotiation lay behind them.

Vera’s King-O-Meats in Edinburg was a sponsor for the 14th Annual Texas Cook’Em: High Steaks in Edinburg, held on July 6th, at H-E-B Park located at 1616 S. Raul Longoria Rd.

World population is estimated to reach 7.58 billion this month as World Population Day is celebrated on July 11 but the U.S. Census Bureau is projecting another milestone: Annual population growth will slip under 1.0% in 2020-2021 for the first time since 1950.

U.S. Border Patrol agents continue to face overwhelming numbers of illegal aliens entering through the Rio Grande Valley (RGV).

Two agents of the Hidalgo County Criminal District Attorney’s Office - High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force have been awarded top honors by the Texas Narcotic Officers Association (TNOA) and will be recognized at the organization’s annual conference in August.

Breaking its own record, the PSJA Education Foundation awarded $384,000 in scholarships and grants to Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD

The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District offered free track camps during the month of June for students in 2nd-12th grade.

“China would love nothing more than for Congress to kill the USMCA and stall future trade agreements, so it can promote its own low standards and coercive economic agenda with other countries,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) writes in The Hill.

Border Patrol agents arrested three sex offenders after entering the United States illegally.