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

Wednesday, November 07, 2012  Eco-tourism and bird watching in particular is worth 463-million dollars annually to the Valley and the annual celebration of the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival begins today.  Richard Moore has a preview of what birders can expect.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011  Authorities have identified a 28-year-old man killed in a Tuesday evening shooting outside Edinburg.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011  Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Deputies continue searching for at least eight men involved in a deadly shooting northeast of Edinburg.Sheriff Lupe Treviño said the shooting happened at about 7:30 p.m. on FM 2812 and Uresti Road, “One body was shot multiple times in the head and in the torso.”

Wednesday, February 23, 2011  Deep South Texas is home to many exotic species; one of the largest and most abundant is certainly the nilgai antelope.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011  Richard Moore teams up with King Ranch cowboys and Weslaco guitarist Mario Aleman to bring us this Cowboy Waltz.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011  Texas boasts the largest whitetail deer herd in the nation numbering somewhere between three and four million animals, but deer were not always so abundant in the state, and they were particularly scarce in deep South Texas.

Monday, December 27, 2010  King Ranch, founded in 1853, stretches across 825,000 acres in deep South Texas. One of the largest and most famous ranches in the world, it is also a haven for wildlife.

Monday, December 13, 2010  Perhaps the most important factor affecting the future of fish and wildlife conservation in Texas is the role of the private landowner.

Monday, November 22, 2010  From working with endangered ocelots to growing native plants for habitat restoration, the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University in Kingsville is the leading wildlife research organization in Texas and certainly one of the finest in the nation.

Monday, November 08, 2010  More than 250 years ago vaqueros, predecessors of modern cowboys roamed the vast expanses of prairie in what is now southernmost Texas.

Monday, October 25, 2010  King Ranch, sprawling across 825,000 acres in Deep South Texas with headquarters on the banks of the Santa Gertrudis in Kingsville, is referred to by some as the lynchpin in the "Last Great Habitat" as it one of the last regions in the state with large tracts of contiguous habitat.

Monday, October 04, 2010  It’s the annual fall roundup on the most famous ranch in the world, and on King Ranch in deep South Texas the cowboys, or vaqueros as they are known in Spanish, start their day early.

Monday, July 26, 2010  An investigation continues after several people were hospitalized following an triple auto accident on U.S. Highway 77 between Sarita and Raymondville.

Monday, March 22, 2010  The Nature Report takes us on a tour of La Parra, the magnificent headquarters of the Kenedy Ranch.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  A McAllen attorney and two other men have been indicted in Willacy County for poaching deer in the King Ranch.