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

Tuesday, April 30, 2013  While the country is still slowly recovering from the recession, right here in the valley, the car industry is booming.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013  Dr. Bart Ballard, research scientist with Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M Kingsville, enters the University's state of the art avian radar detection system.

Monday, April 22, 2013  It's the peak of spring migration thru America's most critical migratory corridor here in Deep South Texas, and colorful songbirds such as painted buntings and rose-breasted grosbeaks' are briefly stopping over to rest and refuel on their flight to breeding grounds throughout North America.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  A phantom cat secretively stalks the remnants of thick thorny brush in southernmost Texas.

Monday, April 08, 2013  You can help fight Congenital Heart Disease one step at a time this month.

Friday, April 05, 2013  If you want to fatten your savings, the skinny interest served up by banks is not going to get it done. One potential solution? The stock market.

Thursday, March 07, 2013  A Brownsville high school failed to meet standardized testing marks repeatedly, so the state has stepped in with extra resources and facilitators to help get them up to par.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013  The prolonged drought plaguing southernmost Texas is taking its toll on wildlife.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013  If congress fails to make a new budget deal before March 1 major cuts are headed our way.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection alone faces $754 million in cuts.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  Harlingen gets to keep its title as the “Cheapest City in the United States" for another year.

Monday, December 17, 2012  Researchers in the South Texas brush country are discovering that approximately one out of every ten bobcats has a striking resemblance to the endangered ocelot.  Richard Moore has the story.

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.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012  Last week, President Barack Obama announced his support for same sex marriage. This move, many analysts said, will energize young voters.

Tuesday, March 06, 2012  University of Texas at Brownsville students are taking advantage of the hands-on learning experience as he paves his path to medical school.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  Local leaders are looking into privatizing the USDA Agricultural Research Center in Weslaco, in order to keep the research and jobs in the Rio Grande Valley.