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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A new trial date has been set for a man accused in the death of a tow truck driver in Harlingen. Cristobal Stephan Garzez, 29, is set to go to trial on Oct. 5, Cameron County court records show. Announcements are scheduled for Oct. 1. According ...
The Brownsville City Commission on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, issued a proclamation declaring the day as “Helen Ramirez Day,” recognizing City Manager Helen Ramirez for her transformative leadership and lasting contributions to the City of Brownsville....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Our ValleyCentral Game of the Week is Edinburg Vela at Los Fresnos! We are hitting the road on Friday to bring you live coverage and full highlights starting at our 6 p.m. newscast. And don't forget to submit your vote for our Team of the Week! ...
The Brownsville City Commission approved the FY2027 budget, prioritizing public safety, essential services, infrastructure, economic development and quality of life....
Brownsville residents are invited to start their morning with coffee, conversation, and an opportunity to connect directly with Mayor John Cowen Jr. during the upcoming “Coffee with the Mayor” event....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Several statewide candidates visited the Rio Grande Valley this past week looking to rally support ahead of the November election. Gov. Greg Abbott made an appearance at the Harlingen Convention Center representing the Texas Veterans Commission ...
L eticia Hinojosa made history 40 years ago. When she was 31 years old, Hinojosa was sworn in as the Hidalgo County Court-at-Law #4 Judge on Sept. 18, 1989 — marking the first time a woman was elected judge in the Rio Grande Valley. During that year, only eight of 98 appellate ju...
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel City Commission moved forward with final action Sept. 10 designating 765.695 acres of Long Island as an industrial district, despite another round of opposition from Long Island Village residents who urged commissioners to ...
H ARLINGEN — The city’s property tax rate won’t be going up this year. Amid some residents’ opposition to a proposed half-cent tax hike , commissioners voted 4-1 to keep the tax rate at 0.5260 per $100 valuation, two weeks after the board proposed the first tax rate increase in s...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — New opportunities for artists and creatives could come as a new state designation brings more funding and resources to Brownsville. The Texas Commission on the Arts officially designated the Mitte Cultural District a Texas Cultural District. The...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The votes are in for the Valley Sports Central Team of the Week. Our Valley Sports team nominated three local football teams to claim the title of Team of the Week. Nearly 1,500 viewers cast votes for their Team of the Week pick. Here are the r...
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — South Padre Island voters are heading to the polls weeks before the November election as the city holds a special election for a vacant City Council seat. The special election is for Place 1, a seat previously held by longtime councilma...
T exas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa brought her campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott back to the Rio Grande Valley this week, with a rally in McAllen, a meeting with South Texas Homebuilders Association members in Harlingen, a stop at a LUPE Votes phone bank and ...
The City of Brownsville is accepting applications from residents interested in serving on the Environmental Task Force, an advisory board intended to support the City Commission....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Former US Representative Beto O'Rouke visited South Texas College on Monday as part of Every Campus Counts tour. South Texas College is one of many stops across Texas in the voter registration campaign presented by Powered by People, an initiat...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino, Jr. hosted a ceremony on Monday for the Old Alice Road expansion project. The $30 million project will involve reconstructing the intersection of Papaya Drive and Old Alice Road in Los Fresnos to improve the ...
O LMITO — A man accused of killing four people over the weekend was given no bond during an arraignment Monday afternoon. Christian Joel Maldonado Pacheco, 25, stood before state District Court Judge Janet Leal at the Cameron County Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center and received...
L OS FRESNOS — Cameron County broke ground Monday on a $31 million expansion of Old Alice Road that will span from the Brownsville Sports Park to State Highway 100. The project will take the 4.9-mile stretch of road from two to four lanes with an additional left-turn lane in the ...
The City of Brownsville has rescheduled its Tuesday, September 15, 2026, City Commission meeting to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. The meeting will be held at the regularly scheduled time of 5:00PM and location City Commission Chambers....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The debate over data centers is fast becoming one of the hottest topics in the country. On this week's episode of Inside Valley Politics, we take a look at how quickly the issue has captured voters' attention and the shifting attitudes from some...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority (CCRMA) has scheduled partial lane closures on toll road State Highway 550. The partial lane closures will begin on Monday, Sept. 14 as work crews perform routine maintenance on north and southboun...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On this week’s edition of ValleyCentral Weekend Report, Anchor Alejandra Yanez breaks down all the news of the week. Starting with the biggest stories of the week, in case you missed them. A Cameron County man is being held on a $100k bond after...
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The body of a Midland man who disappeared while kayaking off South Padre Island over Labor Day weekend has been recovered following a multi-day search. Cameron County Park Rangers and Texas Game Wardens recovered the body of 59-ye...
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com BAYVIEW—A Bayview man is facing a murder charge following the death of his wife at their home Sunday. Cameron County Sheriff’s deputies and investigators responded to the 29000 block of Siesta Lane after receiving a 911 call. Upon...
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS A packed Port Isabel City Commission chambers, at one point standing room only, heard strong opposition Wednesday from Long Island Village residents over a proposal to designate portions of Long Island within the city’s extraterritorial ju...
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island Convention and Visitor Advisory Board voted Wednesday to advance two changes to Visit South Padre Island’s marketing operations, including negotiations with a new agency focused on Mexico and a renegotiated agreement...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — New York-based Fluidstack announced it has begun construction of a $4 billion data center campus in Cameron County. As previously reported by ValleyCentral, the facility will be built on more than 1,000 acres east of the Valley International Air...
The Harlingen CISD Administration Building is seen in this undated photo. (Maricela Rodriguez/Valley Morning Star) H ARLINGEN — Taxes are going up in Harlingen. For the first time in years, the school district’s property tax rate’s climbing. Meanwhile, at City Hall city commissio...
B rownsville’s Mitte Cultural District has been officially designated a “Texas Cultural District” by the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), which translates into a new source for funding for nonprofit arts organizations with the district. It was among four new cultural districts...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A kayaker who was reported missing over the weekend on South Padre Island was recovered on Tuesday by Cameron County Park Rangers. A search for the missing kayaker was initiated by the U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday afternoon near Cameron County B...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office is leading a death investigation after a man's body was found in a ditch in rural Mercedes. Deputies responded to a call at 7 p.m. on Monday about a report of a body found along FM 491, south of Mile 10 Road. ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Willacy County Sheriff's Office announced that the community helped return a lost horse in Raymondville. The horse was safely secured and reunited with its owner, the sheriff said. On Tuesday morning, a first report said the horse was seen o...
The City of Brownsville is helping make voter registration services more accessible to the community as part of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 15, 2026....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Bail has been set for a man accused of murdering his wife, according to Cameron County Jail Records. A judge issued bail of $100,000 to 45 year old Aldo Vargas, who was charged with murder, a first-degree felony, according to Cameron County Jail...
Week 2 is in the books. Check out the latest RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 poll as voted on by our staff. Others receiving votes: Brownsville Veterans, Donna High, Roma The post RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 Poll (09/07/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
Check out the latest RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 poll as voted on by our staff. The post RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 Poll (09/07/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
H ARLINGEN — A developer’s town hall meeting might decide if the city opens a major drainage canal to an incoming data center spanning across hundreds of acres between Harlingen and Rio Hondo. In a heated meeting packing City Hall, commissioners unanimously voted to let Fluidstac...
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com South Padre Island voters will head to the polls twice this fall, beginning with an Oct. 3 special election to fill the City Council Place 1 seat, followed one month later by the Nov. 3 general election. Early voting for the speci...
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island Convention and Visitors Advisory Board voted Aug. 26 to recommend renewing Visit South Padre Island’s marketing partnership with the San Antonio Spurs, advancing a proposed three-year agreement beginning at $400,000 ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — After an exciting week one of high school football, the Rio Grande Valley has voted for its first team of the week of the 2026 season. The Raymondville Bearkats took home the title with 1,050 total votes, or 46% of the vote. McAllen Memorial cam...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Emotions ran high Wednesday as Harlingen residents confronted city commissioners over a proposed artificial intelligence data center planned near the city. New York-based Fluidstack is planning the data center on roughly 1,800 acres between Harl...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — During a special meeting on Tuesday, the Donna Independent School District Board of Trustees accepted the resignation of Superintendent Angela Dominguez and named Rebecca Castañeda as the Acting Superintendent. The board voted after returning fr...
S AN BENITO — While passing a new $20 million general fund budget’s coming with a $20.9 million fund balance, the new city commission voted against a proposed 1-cent property tax cut. As City Hall works to close the 2025-2026 fiscal year, officials had built a $1.5 million surplu...
B ROWNSVILLE — City commissioners here voted Tuesday to move forward with the process of establishing a moratorium on the new applications for rezoning or permits for data centers in the city. Commissioners approved a resolution directing the city manager to initiate the process ...
T he county judges for Hidalgo and Bexar counties are placing a “friendly wager” ahead of a college football showdown this Saturday. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros and the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners are facing off this Saturday at the Alamo...
A lthough San Perlita ISD schools temporarily closed last week due to the “rapid spread” of COVID-19 cases, local health officials reassure the slight uptick is not a concern and is, in fact, common for this time of year. Dr. Juan Castillo, Cameron County’s health authority, expl...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The stakes are on for the highly anticipated matchup between the Vaqueros and the Roadrunners this Saturday. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will take on the University of Texas at San Antonio at the Alamodome at 2:30 p.m. Ahead of kic...
STAFF REPORT Check out the latest RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 poll after the first week of action. Others receiving votes: Lyford The post RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 Poll (09/02/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
STAFF REPORT Check out the latest RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 poll after the first week of action. Others receiving votes: Roma The post RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 Poll (09/02/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo County Clerk's Office is processing marriage licenses at its Edinburg office as the courthouse remains closed to the public, according to a news release. Marriage license services will be available from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at ...
H ARLINGEN — A developer is planning a data center campus spanning hundreds of acres between Harlingen and Rio Hondo, calling on city commissioners here to enter into an agreement allowing the site’s runoff to discharge into a major canal draining Valley International Airport. Du...
The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) is now accepting applications for the BIG LIFT Citywide Storefront Improvement Grant Program from eligible small businesses in Brownsville City Commission District 2....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — During a Saturday special meeting, the city of Brownsville approved a $220 million Memorandum of Understanding for water and wastewater infrastructure projects while the City Commission approved a final reading of an ordinance to disannex approx...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz is asking the community's help by providing information that could assist law enforcement with unsolved cases and locate wanted fugitive defendants. In a release, Saenz asks community members to...
The City of Brownsville has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that is expected to provide up to $220 million for water and wastewater infrastructure projects designed to increase water availability in Brownsville and Cameron County....
The seven-member commission will serve as an advisory board focused on sports tourism and giving the community a voice in how Brownsville continues to attract tournaments, teams and sporting events....
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS South Padre Island City Council members met with Broaddus & Associates on Aug. 11 to establish project-management roles, priorities and communication procedures for the proposed Convention Center renovation and annex project, while also di...
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS Port Isabel commissioners voted Aug. 25 to advertise a proposed 2026 property tax rate of $0.790416, matching the total rate used in 2025, after reviewing the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget and tax rate during a workshop. City Manager Jare...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The subjects of a murder suicide in rural Mission have been identified by the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a welfare call after 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the 2500 block of Jessica Ave. The welfare check led to the discover...
Christian Castro A federal judge in Brownsville has denied the state of Minnesota’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office releasing ICE agent Christian Castro, who has a warrant in the state, from custody. On Wednesday afternoon, U....
