WESLACO, Sept. 1 - GOP efforts to create a new conservative congressional district in Corpus Christi could result in the Rio Grande Valley losing its two experienced U.S. House members, Solomon Ortiz and Rubén Hinojosa.

HIDALGO, Sept. 1 - U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has had talks with the FBI about the agency beefing up its surveillance of wire transfers going to drug cartels in Mexico.

McALLEN, Aug. 30 - The chair of the Texas Border Coalition’s workforce development and education committee has praised the work of the Texas House Committee on Border and Intergovernmental Affairs.

McALLEN, Aug. 27 - Valley Interfaith has announced it will hold a multi-denominational conference on immigration in October that will be attended by a number of bishops.

McALLEN, Aug. 27 - Tributes have been pouring in for Mike Allen, the legendary former president and CEO of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.

McALLEN, Aug. 26 - The City of McAllen and South Texas College have issued statements in honor of Mike Allen, the legendary former president and CEO of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.

McALLEN, Aug. 26 - Mike Allen, the legendary former president and CEO of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation has died. He was 72.

McALLEN, Aug. 25 - More than 300 Valley Interfaith members will board buses in the early hours of Saturday morning in order to attend a statewide convention in San Antonio.

MISSION, Aug. 25 - Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton on Tuesday praised Hidalgo County’s vehicle registration fee initiative and mentioned another method to raise local highway dollars – an additional fee for crossing international bridges.

WESLACO, Aug. 23 - A group putting together the evaluation criteria for ranking flood control projects in the Rio Grande Valley is determined not to leave colonia residents at the bottom of the list.

SAN JUAN, Aug. 21 - Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD will have more than 32,000 students enrolled when the new school year starts next week, a reflection of the fast growing tri-city area.

HIDALGO, Aug. 20 - Hidalgo Mayor John David Franz today explained why he no longer backs Rick Perry for governor.

McALLEN, Aug. 20 - A former Rio Grande Valley state senator says if the voters of Texas elect him Land Commissioner in November he will work with local legislators to secure a veterans hospital for the region.

McALLEN, Aug. 20 - At a campaign event on Thursday evening, Hidalgo County Democratic Party Chair Dolly Elizondo speculated that she might have been an “anchor baby.”

SAN JUAN, Aug. 19 - The failure of the Obama administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform will hinder the Get Out the Vote effort being mounted by Equal Voice for America’s Families, its leaders acknowledge.

BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 18 - State Sen. Eddie Lucio says he and the South Texas legislative delegation will push to get $50 million to $60 million next session for the region’s proposed four-year medical school.

EDINBURG, Aug. 18 - The City of Edinburg will commemorate the official start of construction of their long awaited Santana Textiles facility next month. 

WESLACO, Aug. 18 - The Rio Grande Valley Partnership’s board of directors has selected Linda McKenna as its new president and CEO.

McALLEN, Aug. 18 - In an address to the citizenry of McAllen, Mayor Richard Cortez reintroduced proposals to sell Westside Park to commercial developers.

BROWNSVILLE, Aug. 17 - Investing state pension funds in Texas companies, regulating the banks, expanding gaming, and placing undocumented immigrants in private prisons are among the proposals state Sen. Eddie Lucio will take into the next legislative session.

EDINBURG, Aug. 16 - The mayor of a northern Mexico municipality that recently signed a “sister city” agreement with Edinburg has been abducted, according to Mexican officials.

EDINBURG, Aug. 16 - A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center has been opened in Edinburg for Hidalgo County residents affected by Hurricane Alex and subsequent flooding.

The diversion of floodwaters into the U.S. interior floodway at Anzalduas Dam in the Rio Grande Valley is likely to end later this week, the International Boundary and Water Commission has announced.

SAN JUAN, Aug. 16 - It is rare for a charter school, a public school and a non-profit to form an alliance in order to improve teaching standards but that is what has just happened in South Texas.

McALLEN, Aug. 16 - One of the interim charges given to the Committee on Border and Intergovernmental Affairs by Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was to study ways of improving economic conditions along the border.