LAS MILPAS, March 9 - Appropriately held on International Women’s Day, the late founder of Project ARISE, Irish native Gerrie Naughton, was honored with a Texas Senate proclamation on Monday.

EDINBURG, March 9 - State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa has announced that a denim fabric manufacturer about to open a new plant in Edinburg has secured a $10 million loan from the state of Texas.

BROWNSVILLE, March 8 - Del Rio Mayor Efrain Valdez has been appointed the new chair of the Texas Border Coalition.

BROWNSVILLE, March 8 - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is hosting a workshop in Brownsville on Tuesday to help engage Latinos in the upcoming U.S. Census. 

SAN JUAN, March 8 - College Spring-Breakers! What image enters your mind? Is it bikini-clad co-eds and muscular albeit alcohol enhanced macho men on South Padre Island?

EDINBURG, March 5 - Access to capital may not be a problem for businesses and entrepreneurs in Hidalgo County but if that is the case, researchers looking for the evidence have yet to find it.

HIDALGO, March 5 - Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White says the way the highest ranking Hispanic Republican in Texas went down to defeat on Tuesday was particularly disappointing.

REYNOSA, Tamps, March 5 (Notimex) - Autoridades municipales de las ciudades de Reynosa e Hidalgo, Texas se dieron el tradicional abrazo de la amistad en las inmediaciones del cruce internacional que une estas dos ciudades fronterizas en el marco del inicio de las actividades denominadas “BorderFest.”

EDCOUCH, March 4 - State Rep. Aaron Peña, D-Edinburg, has called on embattled Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy to resign.

AUSTIN, March 4 - The Texas Department of Public Safety is urging all Texas Spring Breakers to avoid traveling to border cities in Mexico.

PENITAS, March 4 – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution designating March 2010 as “Census Awareness Month.”

EDINBURG, March 3 - Hidalgo County Judge Rene Ramirez has called on county residents to participate in Census 2010 when they get their census forms later this month.

EDINBURG, March 3 - There were a couple of upsets in the primary elections held in South Texas on Tuesday, most notably the defeat of state Rep. Tara Rios Ybarra.

HARLINGEN, March 3 - Rio South Texas Economic Council (RSTEC) has announced two new members have joined the group – the City of Pharr Economic Development Corporation and the Port Isabel Economic Development Corporation.

McALLEN, March 1 - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged a South Texas developer with defrauding first-time home buyers by unlawfully selling houses that were encumbered by undisclosed liens.

MATAMOROS, Feb. 28 - Continuing a tradition begun back in 1938, the sister cities of Brownsville and Matamoros concluded the 73rd edition of Charro Days with parades in their respective cities.

BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 28 - Ron Whitlock Reports will present a live, one-hour prime time TV Election Special on Monday, the day before voters go to the polls.

REYNOSA, Tamps., Feb. 15 (Notimex) - Pide OEA crear mecanismos para difundir derechos de migrantes Luego de reconocer los riesgos que pasan los migrantes mexicanos y extranjeros en su travesía para llegar a Estados Unidos, el embajador de la OEA en México, Oscar Maúrtua, se pronunció por crear mecanismos que permitan difundir sus derechos.

BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 26 - The State Department has sent a Diplomatic Note to its counterpart in Mexico, the Secretaria de Relacicones Exteriores, about Cameron County’s West Rail project.

EDINBURG, Feb. 26 - An electronic key used to turn on Hidalgo County I-Votronic voting machines and select either a Democratic or Republican ballot along with a precinct number has gone missing.

HARLINGEN, Feb. 25 - Does a higher turnout in the northern part of Texas House District 43 help challenger J.M. Lozano, who hails from Kingsville, more than incumbent Rep. Tara Rios Ybarra of South Padre Island?

HARLINGEN, Feb. 25 - The chairman of the Veterans Alliance of the Rio Grande Valley has decided to reactivate the group’s Strike Force. 

ALAMO, Feb. 24 - Laura Treviño, director of the Texas A&M Colonias Program painted the picture clearly—fear is the biggest obstacle confronting the census worker when he or she knocks on the door of a Hidalgo County colonia household.

ALAMO, Feb. 23 - U.S. Census Bureau officials will today visit what they acknowledge to be one of the hardest to count neighborhoods in the nation, “Little Mexico,” home to thousands of colonia residents.

McALLEN, Feb. 23 - Doctors Hospital at Renaissance has disputed Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest reporting in The New Yorker magazine on health care delivery costs in the McAllen area.

REYNOSA, Feb 22 - The Spanish language banner hanging from a pedestrian bridge Saturday evening bore the signature of the Gulf Cartel.

REYNOSA, Feb. 22 - The typical Mexican breakfast of papaya, orange juice, tamales, chicken fajita, beans and sweet bread accompanied a colorful performance by “Baile Folklorico la Nueva Xochipitl.