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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Olmito Nature Park is now making its mark as a kayaking destination in the Rio Grande Valley. Cameron County leaders celebrated the new kayak addition on Friday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. "We're not aware of any other kayak launching li...
Effective immediately, the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) has implemented Drought Stage 1 after the combined conservation storage level of the Falcon and Amistad reservoirs improved to 32.9%....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Public Utilities Board announced on Friday that it has implemented a Stage 1 Drought effective immediately after reservoir conditions have improved. According to a news release, the combined conservation storage level of the Falc...
GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (FOX 44) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced that SpaceX will construct a vertically integrated semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County. According to the Office of the Governor, the first phase of the Terafab project represents a capital investm...
By JAQUI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PARADE A new luxury photography experience is bringing flowing gowns, professional styling and beachside portraits to South Padre Island. SPI Luxury Beach Events by Nadia has launched its South Padre Island Flying Dress Experience, offering clie...
City Commissioner Delia Cavazos-Gamez H ARLINGEN — City Commissioner Delia Cavazos-Gamez’s probe into questions surrounding a dirty political mailer seems to be getting closer to the source. About eight months after launching the probe, her attorneys have tracked the mailer’s pub...
S paceX recently issued its Starbase impact report for the second quarter of 2026, meant to highlight the ways the company is “driving growth in the Rio Grande Valley.” The report leads with scholarships the company has funded, intended to “spark curiosity in science, technology ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to deliver three of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird Block 2 satellites into low Earth orbit on Aug. 5, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update Aug. 5, 6:09 a.m. EDT (1009 U...
By MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer C APE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving o...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision, a telescope in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — SpaceX reported a smaller loss than Wall Street expected along with a surge in revenue in its first quarterly report as a public company as it sharply boosted spending, particularly on artificial intelligence. The company run by Elon Musk posted a loss of $541 mil...
File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX is set to launch its 90th Falcon 9 rocket of the year with a mid-morning flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday. It comes hours before the company’s first qu...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Brownsville police say a man who robbed a bank on Boca Chica Boulevard Monday afternoon has confessed to the crime. Police say Dion George James, 32, confessed to the bank robbery while he was questioned by investigators. His formal arraignment ...
The South Texas Astronomical Society (STARS) and its Launchpad program invite the media to the public unveiling of Project Vortex, a year-long student rocketry project, from 7–9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Brownsville Public Library Main Branch....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Even with everyone focused on final preparations for Flight 13, the production teams were still hard at work on vehicles for future missions. Moving on to testing activities for the week, the Flight 14 booster began the first steps of its test ...
A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from liftoff through landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the NROL-95 mission on July 30, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update July 30, 10:27 a.m. EDT (1427 UTC): The NRO confirms its payload was deployed. A clas...
A fter a six-month assessment, Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM), in partnership with Blue Zones, an organization dedicated to creating healthier communities, are sharing findings and discussing next steps in the process. The two organizations partnered earlier this year to l...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Efforts are underway to recover the Starship from the Indian Ocean after it lifted off from Starbase last week. SpaceX noted several successes throughout Starship Flight 13, including a successful first-stage ascent, a high-thrust burn igniting ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- A couple of hours before sunrise, something electrical failed at or beyond the Sanchez site, producing a bright flash and a momentary power flicker across Star Factory and the offices. Despite the issue, pre-flight launch operations were not im...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announces SpaceX will attempt to catch Starship with the tower on the next scheduled test flight. Following the anticipated thirteenth Starship test flight, Musk posted on X that, "unless [SpaceX] discover problems after mis...
The Starlink 17-51 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 25, 2026. Image: SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from the West Coast Saturday, carrying another batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink internet servic...
SpaceX’s Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, blasts off on the program’s 13th test flight in another critical milestone for Elon Musk’s rocket company. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched it’s 13th Super Heavy-Starship rocket Friday, with...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Down by the Border, a nonprofit organization, has launched its new Satellite Office at the Brownsville Police Department. The organization supports children with special needs through different programming such as athletic, educational, and comm...
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — After two scrubbed launch attempts, SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 finally lifted off Friday, rewarding thousands of spectators who waited days to witness the historic test flight. According to SpaceX, the mission achieved all of its prima...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) S tarship S40 and Super Heavy booster B20 lifted off from SpaceX’s launch pad No. 2 at Boca Chica at 5:51 p.m. on Friday after scrubbing the launch twice, yesterd...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) —SpaceX aims to launch its 13th Starship flight test from Starbase on Friday afternoon. The 90-minute launch window opens at 5:45 p.m. ValleyCentral will livestream the launch in the video player above. Friday's launch comes after SpaceX scrubbed ...
The City of Brownsville is informing residents of SpaceX Starship’s potential Eighth Flight Test Launch on Friday, July 24th, with a window between the hours of 5:45 PM PM and 7:45 PM CST....
U TRGV and IDEA Public Schools are partnering to launch an early autism intervention program dedicated to researching education delivery models, impacts of accelerated learning and that will serve as a blueprint for training educators in the Valley. The program is called Classroo...
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Thousands of people gathered at Isla Blanca Park on Thursday hoping to watch SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 lift off, but weather had other plans. Less than two hours before the scheduled launch, SpaceX scrubbed the mission because of weat...
S paceX on Thursday afternoon announced that it was scrubbing its planned launch of Starship/Super Heavy from Boca Chica Beach. Now, the company is targeting Friday with a 90-minute test window opening at 5:45 p.m., SpaceX said in a media release. Flight 13 has been scrubbed twic...
Special to the PRESS U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez has introduced legislation aimed at permanently protecting the name Boca Chica Beach while increasing transparency in the federal geographic naming process. The Hands Off Our Boca Chica Beach Act, introduced July 20, would officiall...
A fully-integrated Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands at Pad 2 at Starbase prior to the second attempt at launching the Starship Flight 13 mission. SpaceX stacked Ship 40 atop Booster 20 on July 22, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update July 23, 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 U...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX is preparing for its second attempt at Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas. The second attempt of Starship Flight 13 comes one week after SpaceX scrubbed its first attempt on July 16. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A nonprofit organization aiming to help people overcome addictions across the nation is launching its operations here in the Valley. Transformations Program USA is set to open a recovery home in Harlingen to help anyone across the Rio Grande Val...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 21, 2026. Onboard was the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS), the main payload on Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic V...
The Starlink 17-39 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 21, 2026. Image: SapceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two dozen Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation ...
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- As SpaceX transitioned into final preparations for Starship Flight 13, Ship 40 gave a wave as it was put through a round of actuation testing of its flaps. That afternoon, the chopsticks released Ship 40 and were open and raised into the launch ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on Monday introduced legislation seeking to bring transparency to the federal renaming process. The "Hands Off Our Boca Chica Beach Act" aims to protect the site from unnecessary name changes and would require the Dome...
U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Brownsville, has introduced a new bill that aims to protect Boca Chica Beach from “unnecessary name changes.” The Hands off Our Boca Chica Beach Act was announced on Monday morning. According to a news release from the cong...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - SpaceX has announced it has rescheduled its thirteenth Starship test flight for the second time. The launch window has been moved to 5:45 p.m. Thursday, July 23, from Starbase. The thirteenth Starship test flight will be the second flight test ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX has announced its new launch date after the second launch of the year was scrubbed on the pad on Thursday afternoon. SpaceX's website shows the Starship's 13th flight test is expected to happen on July 20, Monday, with a launch window ope...
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is now accepting applications for a new statewide license for mobile food vendors, including food trucks, pushcarts, and roadside vendors....
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Thousands of spectators lined the beaches of South Padre Island on Thursday hoping to witness SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight, but their anticipation turned to disappointment when the company scrubbed the launch just moments before l...
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of Starship/Super Heavy from Boca Chica just as the Super Heavy booster was about to ignite its 33 engines for liftoff. There was no immediate word about what issue triggered the abort. Flight 13 was to have been the second flight of the third version o...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The 13th test flight of Starship is scheduled to launch from Starbase on Thursday evening. According to SpaceX, Flight 13 will aim to complete similar objectives targeted on Flight 12, which debuted a redesigned ship and a new generation of Supe...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX scrubbed its Starship Flight 13 right after it was preparing to liftoff from Starbase on Thursday evening. The aerospace company posted on X that it is "standing down from today's flight test attempt." During a live feed, smoke was seen s...
Antonio Caldwell, former deputy director of the Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center (BARCC), has a new gig, though his focus is still on addressing the Rio Grande Valley’s big stray-animal problem. He recently launched his own consulting firm and has been contacting mun...
Super Heavy Booster 20 stands ready to receive the Ship upper stage ahead of the 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX will debut its long-promised Starlink Version 3 satellites during a suborbital test flight of its Starship...
A batch of 21 satellites manufactured by York Space Systems are prepared for encapsulation in a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing ahead of launching the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer E (T1TL-E) mission. Image: SpaceX The Space Development Agency is set to lau...
The City of Brownsville has formed a new partnership with Civic Marketplace and the Alliance for Innovation (AFI) to expand access to cooperative purchasing opportunities for public entities across the United States....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- A second Rio Grande Valley hospital is accused of being connected to a birth tourism scheme that is under investigation by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). Gov. Greg Abbott on July 7 directed the HHSC to launch the investi...
Fred Perez SAN BENITO — About eight years after voters passed a $40 million bond issue, officials are planning to launch a project to build the district’s first aquatics center while gearing up to start construction of a performing arts theater. With an overall project budget of ...
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The date is set for Flight 13 and Booster 20 performed a successful static fire test. How is Starbase gearing up for flight? Well, let's take a look into this week's Avid Starship and Starbase update and find out. The time is at hand and workers...
The Brownsville Police Department arrested a 45-year-old man who stole over $5,000 from a Chase Bank on Boca Chica Boulevard Monday morning, police said in a social media post. Officials recovered the money after arresting Eliud Escobedo near the bank. The bank robbery was report...
SpaceX is targeting Thursday as the primary launch date for Starship Flight 13, with the launch window opening at 5:45 p.m. and closing at 7:56 p.m., according to the company, which advised the date could change. SpaceX said it would begin “clearing the range” (a cone of general ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is soliciting public comments on its newly released “Draft Tiered Environmental Assessment (EA) for SpaceX Starship Reentry Contingency Operations in the Pacific Ocean and Additional Starship Landing Trajectory.” Under the proposed action, the ...
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX will perform the 600th reuse of one of its Falcon rocket boosters when it launches the Starlink 10-45 mission from Cape Ca...
Brownsville residents are embracing curbside recycling, with participation exceeding expectations just six months after the City's residential recycling program launched in January....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX has announced the target date for its thirteenth Starship test flight. The launch window is scheduled to open as early as 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, from Starbase. The thirteenth Starship test flight will be the second flight test of...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- If you felt a shaking sensation in areas of Cameron County Friday morning, it is because of static fire testing conducted on Super Booster 20 at SpaceX. The testing reportedly caused properties to shake in South Padre Island and Los Fresnos. Lo...
