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The Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center is inviting yoga enthusiasts and animal lovers to take part in a fun and heartwarming morning of Puppy Yoga on Saturday, June 13, at The Broken Sprocket, located at 6305 Paredes Line Road.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Well, we started off this Thursday with a few spotty showers across the Valley, and this activity will continue into Friday. More rain is on the way as we head into the weekend, due to remnants of Cristina and a low-pressure system in the Bay of Campeche, which ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — CBS 4 and NBC 23 and KGBT 4.1 are temporarily off the air Thursday morning as crews conduct tower work. Our stations will be temporarily off-air from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. But don't forget you can catch all of our latest coverage on news, weather and sports on Valle...
File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX is preparing to launch its next Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday morning, a day before the company’s stock becomes publicly available on the Nasdaq. The Starl...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum kicked off its two-day education experience on Wednesday for students with the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District. The two-day experience will welcome more than 300 elementary students from the PSJA Gifted an...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- A ceremony will be held in Brownsville on Friday to honor and remember the 49 lives lost in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. Friday will mark 10 years since the Pulse Orlando nightclub shooting, referred to as one of the deadliest attacks on the ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Rio Grande Valley faces some of the highest rates of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the world, and researchers at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley are working to understand why. Doctors and scientists at the UTRGV Institute of Neuroscience say ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A ceremony was held on Wednesday to celebrate the next chapter of a major development coming to the city of Pharr. City leaders gathered for the official groundbreaking of the city's new multi-center facility, a project that has been in the making for two years....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Texas Comptroller's Office on Wednesday released sales tax allocation numbers for the month of May. The numbers show a snapshot of where consumer spending was the strongest across the Rio Grande Valley last month. The allocations are based on sales taxes col...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In the latest edition of Valley Voices, CBS 4's Marco Ramirez sits down with Professional Wrestler Matt Robledo, most commonly known as "El Matatan" Mateo Ozuna. Robledo is from Santa Rosa and has always aspired to be with the WWE. Robledo is on his way to makin...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It Takes A Village is a weekly ValleyCentral+ series that covers all things parenting, from real, honest conversations about daily routines and challenges to funny moments, lessons learned and balancing work and family life. Each week, host Meteorologist Lexie ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) —The Port of Brownsville Police and Security Department on Wednesday identified a woman whose body was recovered from the water at the Port of Brownsville last week. Ana Idalia Reyes, 60, of El Salvador, was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead after her b...
The iconic Capitol Theatre sign was reinstalled on Monday, June 8, 2026, marking a significant milestone in the restoration of one of Brownsville's most treasured landmarks on East Levee Street.
The City of Brownsville invites residents to participate in an upcoming community meeting to learn about the proposed Fiscal Year 2027 Budget and review the results of the City’s recent Community Survey.
The City of Brownsville Department of Health, Wellness and Animal Services is continuing its proactive efforts to reduce mosquito populations and protect public health through scheduled mosquito spraying operations this week.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Alamo celebrated the completion of renovations at the Chief Rolando Espinoza Fire Station No. 2 and the arrival of a new fire engine on Tuesday. The city of Alamo also celebrated the creation of its new Emergency Operations Center. The new addition w...
The Brownsville Public Library System invites children and families to unleash their creativity at its upcoming Pasta Fossils event, where participants will transform ordinary pasta into extraordinary prehistoric creations.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The DHR Health Transplant Institute held an event on Tuesday highlighting the story of a successful kidney transplant between a father and son. After facing kidney disease and challenges waiting for a transplant, Luis F. Gonzalez received a kidney transplant fro...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — As inflation rises to its highest level in three years, the Rio Grande Valley is seeing prices at the pump jump sharply. New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Wednesday shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 4.2% in May compared to l...
The next cleanup event is scheduled for Friday, June 26, in the Acacia Lake Gardens neighborhood in District 1, giving residents an opportunity to properly dispose of unwanted items and help improve their community’s appearance.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Middle and high school students from across the Rio Grande Valley gathered in Brownsville on Tuesday for a Regional P-Tech Expansion Summer Camp. Over 100 students from about 13 Valley school districts had an opportunity to explore TSC's programs. Through hands-...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday morning indicated a 10% chance of tropical development in the Bay of Campeche or the Gulf in the next seven days. This would be from the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristina after crossing over Mexico from the Pacific Oc...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Conditions will remain mostly hot and dry through the rest of this week, but changes may arrive as we head into the weekend and early next week. Tropical Storm Cristina is currently located along the Central American coastline (Tuesday, June 9, 2026), moving tow...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The City of San Benito named an interim city manager during a special commission meeting on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from the city. Carlos Yerena was appointed as interim city manager and is expected to begin immediately. On June 3, an agenda shared ...
City Manager Gabriel Gonzalez (Courtesy: City of Harlingen) HARLINGEN — As part of the city’s new “succession plan,” commissioners are giving pay increases to City Manager Gabriel Gonzalez and most of his management team. In a meeting, Gonzalez requested commissioners give pay increases to himsel...
Edinburg native and arts enthusiast, Brisa Areli Muñoz, is making her annual return to her hometown to host a summer theatre camp in an effort to continue inspiring creativity in the area. Muñoz, 37, has previously partnered with the city of Edinburg to enter the national campaign Arts for Everyb...
A company that manufactures cutting and grinding thin wheels is celebrating 50 years in Brownsville. Saint-Gobain Norton Abrasives began operations in the city in 1976 as the Norton Company in a nearly 200,000-square-foot plant. It was acquired by Saint-Gobain in 1990. Today, the company employs ...
SAN BENITO — Only a few cars sit in the parking lot. I find it rather odd. I had thought that cars would fill the parking lot of Mayan Taqueria on a Friday night. Lights and exciting décor fill the area outside, but it is strangely quiet. A walk through the outside dining area is even more discon...
The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, in partnership with the Prairie View A&M University Cooperative Extension Program, is hosting a free disaster preparedness and recovery session for small business owners on Thursday, June 25, at 2:00 PM.
With children and teenagers enjoying summer break and looking for ways to cool off from the South Texas heat, many families are heading to pools, beaches, resacas, and other waterways for recreation.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Mission police are investigating a fatal crash. The crash occurred at approximately 2:35 a.m. Tuesday on Angus Street and Glasscock Road. According to Mission police, one person is dead after striking a pole. The crash remains under investigation.
The Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center is inviting residents to come together for a day of fun, compassion, and community support at its upcoming Raise the Woof Event on Saturday, June 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Police activity was seen in Harlingen on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson with the Harlingen Police Department confirmed a raid took place on the 800 block of W. Buchanan St. Photos provided to ValleyCentral show that at least two Harlingen units responded to the...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Monday to appoint an interim superintendent. Jimmy McDonough will begin serving as Los Fresnos CISD interim superintendent on July 2 as the Board of Trustees continue...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- High pressure in the Gulf will settle in over the next few days leading to a warmer and mostly dry weather pattern for us here in the Valley. Throughout Tuesday, we'll see highs climb into the low 90s in the east to upper 90s out west. Factor in the mugginess, ...
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