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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Local and state officials gathered in San Carlos on Wednesday to break ground on a new lift station project. The station will be built between the San Carlos and La Blanca communities, located east of Edinburg along State Highway 107. This project is a collaborative effort by Hidalgo County Precinct 4, [...]

Cameron County officials urge individuals with pending court cases to update their contact information as a new text reminder program launches for misdemeanor court hearings.

Voting began in Texas’s 34th Congressional District, featuring Green Party candidate Eddie Espinoza, an Army combat veteran and elementary teacher, and Republican Eric Flores, a former federal prosecutor and National Guard officer, among three others. Both stressed issues important to the Rio Grande Valley, especially the substandard tap‑water in San Benito and Brownsville and the need for flood control, while also addressing border security, health care and education.

Brownsville will hold a free community fair on Oct. 21, 6–7:30 p.m., at the Public Library Main Branch, 2600 Central Blvd., to explain the city’s proposed Municipal Drainage Fee. City Engineering and Public Works staff and consultants Freese & Nichols will discuss the fee structure, planned drainage projects and how the new utility would replace the Resaca Fee. About 90 % of homes would pay $6.25 a month, with the remaining 10 % paying $3.00.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is launching a new smart meter program on Nov. 1, 2026, to alert customers via text and email about continuous water leaks and prolonged usage.

The Mission City Council took no action on its city manager search Tuesday. An agenda item Tuesday allowed council to take action on selecting applicants for interviews, interview procedures and scheduling, and to give direction to staff related to the search process. City Attorney Eden Ramirez said Thursday that council meant to review…

The Edinburg Housing Authority last month moved a suit filed against it by its former executive director to federal court, a suit that alleges the organization fired that director for reporting incidents of wrongdoing. That suit, originally filed in May of last year by former Executive Director Martin Castillo Jr., claims that the authority’s…

Jonathan Campos and Joseph Lucio share where they stand on county employee issues, commissioner pay raises and tax breaks before polls open.

Gov. Greg Abbott said the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department commission would not be taking up the issue of a potential sale of Boca Chica State Park to Elon Musk’s SpaceX anytime soon, following a Texas Monthly news article saying as much. At a news conference Monday, Abbott said he knew very little about the [...]

Harlingen city commissioners will consider a $7 million proposal to widen the 90‑foot canal that drains Valley International Airport, a project backed by data‑center developer Fluidstack, which also seeks permission to discharge its storm‑water runoff into the channel. The offer, presented at a Sept. 2 commission meeting and again on a Wednesday session, includes a $20 million pledge for other infrastructure. Rio Grande Valley residents will want to know that the canal widening and runoff discharge could affect the area around Gomez Road, FM 1595, near Rio Hondo.

A parking and mobility planner, Jon Forster of Fishbeck, presented the results of a study commissioned by South Padre Island’s City Council on Oct. 5. The analysis found a seasonal parking shortage and recommended a mix of paid parking and one or two parking structures, but Mayor Patrick McNulty said no action will be taken yet and public workshops will be held before any decision.

Governor Greg Abbott told a news conference on Monday that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will not vote on a possible sale of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX in the near future. Abbott said he knows little about the proposal, which Texas Monthly said would be discussed in a closed‑door session of the commission’s Nov. 5 meeting, and emphasized his commitment to adding more parkland across Texas.

Cameron County announced that the Los Indios International Bridge project received nearly $9.2 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s INFRA program to build a commercial truck‑parking facility near the bridge entrance on Rio Grande Avenue. The plan includes over 300 parking spaces, roadway upgrades, driver amenities and an automated weight station, which officials say will cut fatigue‑related accidents and boost freight efficiency in the Rio Grande Valley corridor.

Technical glitches in Texas’s voter‑registration system have created a backlog that may force Rio Grande Valley voters to use provisional ballots. The issue left nearly 5,000 registrations unprocessed across Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy counties, with about 3,000 still pending in Starr County. Officials say anyone who filed by the Oct. 5, 2026 deadline should be able to vote once their record is cleared.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Monday kicked off the official start of early voting in Texas for the 2026 midterm election. The first day of early voting saw an outstanding number of voters at the polls in what has been reported by the Texas Tribune as one of the most competitive election cycles Texas has seen [...]

Gov. Greg Abbott says the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will not vote anytime soon on a rumored sale of Boca Chica State Park land to Elon Musk

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- US House District 15 Democratic nominee Bobby Pulido hit the polls on Monday, surrounded by community members celebrating the official start of early voting. Pulido cast his vote in his hometown of Edinburg, one of the cities zoned within Texas' 15th Congressional District. US House District 15 is currently represented by [...]