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

Wednesday, May 22, 2013  The National Audubon Society began its conservation work in Texas in 1899, making it the oldest citizen conservation group in the lone star state, and this year marks the 90th year of the organizations coastal conservation program.

Friday, January 18, 2013  More than 100 people crammed into Rio Hondo's City Commission Room for a public meeting that was held in regards to a proposed liquid waste facility on the Arroyo Colorado.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012  It is like finding a needle in a hay stack, Environmental Scientist Rafael Casanova told Action 4 News.

Friday, July 27, 2012  Harlingen middle school teacher Esmeralda Valdez is a few weeks shy of returning to work for the school year and although she's focused on leading a new round of students, her mind is on the victims of the Colorado movie theater massacre.

Saturday, July 21, 2012  The Colorado shooting has renewed calls for tighter gun control laws, but local gun experts said that option is increasingly unlikely.

Saturday, July 21, 2012  Once information began emerging about the Colorado movie theater shooting,  hundreds of viewers began responding to the Action 4 News Facebook page and Twitter feed.

Friday, July 20, 2012  A Rio Grande Valley family has ties to the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado.

Friday, July 20, 2012  Movie theaters in the Rio Grande Valley are increasing security following a deadly shooting at the premier of the new Batman movie in Colorado.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012  Crew members from our Action 4 News team have headed out to Colorado to help out our sister station KXRM.

Monday, April 23, 2012  A San Benito babysitter is facing criminal charges after being accused of walking off the job and the children she was supposed to watch got outside their home.

Thursday, April 12, 2012  Some 68 neighbors have filed a lawsuit alleging that oil drilling has damaged their homes.

Thursday, February 02, 2012  Mercedes Police search for the suspect in a Wednesday shooting.

Monday, November 28, 2011  There are dozens of alligators prowling the waterways of the lower Valley, and as Richard Moore shows us, some of the toothy reptiles are extremely large.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011  Some say a  crawling vine in Colorado appears to be taking a holy shape.

Thursday, June 09, 2011  It's a brand new hurricane season, but Julie Moore is still refinishing furniture after hurricane Dolly came to town in 2008.