Latest local news, weather, high school sports in the Rio Grande Valley

Monday, June 17, 2013  With temperatures soaring beyond the century mark in Deep South Texas, a ranch country oasis quickly becomes a magnet for wildlife.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013  More than an hour of delaying tactics from House Democrats has blocked a vote on a hotly debated bill that would have mandated drug testing for some welfare applicants.

Sunday, May 05, 2013  A bill to help protect rural school campuses has been tentatively approved by the House of Representatives.

Monday, April 15, 2013  A bill that would require some applicants for unemployment benefits to take a drug test is a step closer to becoming law.

Monday, April 01, 2013  The reddish egrets have arrived, swooping in by the hundreds on Green Island.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  Edinburg CISD Superintendent Rene Gutierrez told Action 4 News, in his 26 years as an educator shootings, like the one that happened at Harwell Middle School in December of 2011, is something they never thought would happen.

Monday, December 03, 2012  It's just beginning that special time of year when rattling antlers can attract a buck, but for one South Texas outdoorsman… the buck arrives a little too close for comfort… Richard Moore has the story in today's Nature Report.

Monday, November 12, 2012  A new and exciting series for the Animal Planet on birds of prey is being shot here in the Rio Grande Valley.  Richard Moore gives us a worldwide exclusive on the upcoming adventures of The Bird Hunter.

Monday, November 05, 2012  The opening weekend of whitetail deer season is the most anticipated date on a hunter's calendar and as Richard Moore shows us it was a memorable outing for him in the South Texas outdoors.

Thursday, October 11, 2012  Our Weather Sketcher for Thursday comes to us from Damien Reyes and Abigail Hunter.

Friday, October 05, 2012  After shots were heard near an Edinburg school, the district wants to make sure hunters are aware of their surroundings, and to stay away from shooting near schools or populated areas

Monday, April 09, 2012  It's alligator season in the Rio Grande Valley and if you want to know how to catch one and what to do with it when you land it…then Richard Moore introduces us to the expert with all the alligator answers.

Friday, February 10, 2012  Friday night dozens of family members, friends and even total strangers gathered outside Estrellita Mendo's hospital room for a candlelight vigil.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  A chain-linked fence is all that separates Harwell Middle School students from mass acres of brush land that surround the campus.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño says Edinburg school district officials were not aware of hunting leases next to a school where two students were shot.