HARLINGEN, RGV - It may come as no surprise to Rio Grande Valley veterans but the VA facility in Harlingen has the nation's worst backlog for new patients seeking specialist care.
On average, new patients seeking specialist care at the...
McALLEN, RGV - The president of IBC Bank McAllen has made a blistering attack on the Obama Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs over the long wait times for U.S. veterans needing healthcare services.
David Guerra absolved criticism of...
MERCEDES, RGV - U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa says he has called for a detailed audit of medical facilities for veterans in the Rio Grande Valley.
Hinojosa’s move follows a national audit by the VA on quality of care and wait...
WESLACO, Texas - Remember. Honor. Heal.
The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., is coming to the Rio Grande Valley.
Presented by UT-Rio Grande Valley and the City of Edinburg, the traveling...
Today we salute our veterans. As a Vietnam Veteran for the U.S. Marine Corps, I understand the difficult sacrifices that our veterans and their military families endure on a daily basis.
Our veterans - the brave men and women who...
McALLEN, RGV - The Department of Veterans Affairs has again rejected calls from veterans to build a VA hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.
In a letter to Emilio de los Santos, director of veterans’ affairs in Hidalgo County, Robert...
EDINBURG, RGV - Governor Greg Abbott has written to President Obama to remind him of his pledge to build a VA hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.
Obama promised to establish a VA hospital in the region while running for...
HARLINGEN, RGV - Rio Grande Valley veterans finally got to meet the head of the VA on Monday when cabinet secretary Robert McDonald visited Harlingen and McAllen.
Valley veterans' leaders have been pressing for such a meeting for many years.
The...
SAN ANTONIO, RGV - Placido Salazar, of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia American GI Forum Organization of Texas, has penned a letter to the Democratic candidates for governor and lieutenant governor on the issue of helping Rio Grande Valley...
Our father's name was Asencion Gonzalez, and everyone knew him as Chencho.
He retired from working for CPL where he was foreman of the line crew. He was a father to me and my four sisters and our baby brother....
