Valley Morning Star

02/15/2025

Harlingen waterworks staff will not show up announced at your home asking to come in, officials warned.

Harlingen city officials are warning residents of people who are impersonating employees from the city's waterworks system.

02/15/2025

Doesn't seem as though concerns have been quite quelled yet, but that hasn't stopped local officials from attempting to address them. Now Cameron County is trying to explain more about what this vote means for Boca Chica and the region.

Close on the heels of a similar statement earlier this week from Brownsville City Commissioner Tino Villarreal, and in response to a large volume of public feedback over a scheduled election on whether to incorporate SpaceX's Starbase as a Type C municipality, Cameron County on Friday released its o...

02/15/2025

“I’m astonished that we were able to pull off a first place brisket,” said Colton Phillipp, a member of Buschwacked. The La Feria native and Harlingen resident’s entry took the first place brisket award, beating 181 teams in the event.

MERCEDES – The perfection of the practice has finally brought victory to some avid cooks.

02/15/2025

With the price of eggs getting steeper by the dozen (see what we did there?), it's no wonder why this Valley man's hobby of raising hens has become quite a little enterprise.

EDINBURG — What came first; inflation or bird flu?

02/14/2025

During a meeting, board members Orlando Lopez, Israel Villarreal and Rudy Corona voted to terminate attorney Baltazar Salazar’s contract before four trustees declined to vote, holding off the push.

SAN BENITO — A school board majority has held back a push to fire a special attorney overseeing construction of a $40 million bond-funded project.

02/14/2025

A 47-year-old man was killed in the crash that occurred on FM 732 near Pennsylvania Avenue last night.

A Brownsville man is dead following a three-vehicle crash in San Benito on Thursday evening, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a news release

02/14/2025

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02/14/2025

"President Donald Trump, has ordered a ban on new wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere," the AIM Media Texas Editorial Board says. "It’s the wrong approach, and it isn’t necessary. Our future energy needs require that all options for generating power remain available — both combustible and renewable."

Officials and economic and energy analysts have issued projections about our state’s energy demands and our ability to meet them.

02/14/2025

House Speaker Dustin Burrows immediately stirred criticism among hardline conservatives for putting Democrats in charge of half the chamber’s 12 newly created subcommittees.

House Speaker Dustin Burrows appointed lawmakers to committees on Thursday, announcing a leadership team made up mostly of veterans who had led legislative panels under his predecessors — and appointing only Republicans to chair committees, as prescribed by the chamber’s new rules.

02/13/2025

School leaders’ steps to tighten their budget are helping boost the district’s fund balance from a low of about $17.2 million, with cash reserves climbing to $21.2 million.

HARLINGEN — School leaders’ steps to tighten their budget are helping boost the district’s fund balance from a low of about $17.2 million, with cash reserves climbing to $21.2 million.

02/13/2025

The data on wholesale prices follow a surprising consumer price index report Wednesday that showed underlying inflation at the start of the year was highest since March.

U.S. wholesale prices rose in January by more than forecast on higher food and energy costs, highlighting only limited progress on inflation ahead of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

02/13/2025

CBP said the agent was not injured and that an investigation is underway.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to the Fort Brown station in Boca Chica was involved in a shooting Wednesday night during a smuggling attempt in the area, an agency statement said.

02/13/2025

“Barring an AP journalist from covering an Oval Office event because the AP has not adopted President Trump’s change of name to what has long been called the Gulf of Mexico is an affront to the First Amendment,” said noted attorney Floyd Abrams.

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House said Wednesday that news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico were telling “lies” and insisted it would continue to bar Associated Press journalists from presidential events.

02/12/2025

Youth of the Year is the club’s legacy leadership program, said Alma Dones, director of the Main Unit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harlingen. Dones said that since 1947 the program has recognized and celebrated the extraordinary achievements of club youth.

HARLINGEN — She stood before the judges and illustrated her presentation with the hand gestures and the eye contact of someone who has always had a natural courage and capacity for speaking to audiences.

02/12/2025

After careful review by county Judge Eddie Trevino Jr., the county elections administrator and commission civil legal division, he signed an order “finding satisfactory proof in support of the statutory requirements being met for petition for incorporation.”

Cameron County announced Wednesday afternoon that an election has been scheduled to decide whether Starbase, Texas, can be legally incorporated as a Type-C municipality.

02/12/2025

Today, Southwest Airlines’ flights make up about 54% of Valley International Airport’s market share while pumping as much as $200 million a year into the Rio Grande Valley’s economy through visitors’ spending, job creation and tax revenue, officials said.

HARLINGEN — Fifty years ago, when Southwest Airlines’ legendary “Texas triangle” took a sharp turn south, Valley International Airport started growing along with the fledgling air carrier.

02/12/2025

Have you been to Andrea’s Café in Raymondville?

RAYMONDVILLE — Cars fill the parking lot and line the streets where Andrea’s Café serves a clientele moving steadily through its doors.