PHARR, July 4 - Comments made by former Hidalgo County Democratic Party Chairman Juan Maldonado in a recent column about the State Party Convention have drawn fierce criticism from local party activists, most of them women.

HARLINGEN, July 4 - South Texas leaders from the world of politics, business and education have paid tribute to J. Gilbert Leal, the long-serving president of Texas State Technical College in Harlingen who announced his retirement Thursday.

LA FERIA, July 3 - Rio Grande Valley veterans want members of Congress to hear the horrendous story of William Kaub, a Navy veteran from La Feria, in the hope of building support for a VA hospital in the region.

HARLINGEN, July 3 - A legend in the world of higher education in South Texas has announced his retirement.

EDINBURG, July 2 - At a news conference to announce a major economic development for the Rio Grande Valley, a buoyant Gov. Rick Perry quipped that there was nowhere more appropriate for denim to be produced than Texas.

EDINBURG, July 2 - Here are some key points about Santana Textiles and the manufacturing plant the company plans to build in Edinburg:

WESLACO, July 2 - The Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority met at the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council offices on Tuesday evening to select a “technically preferred route” for the $600 million County Loop project.

EDINBURG, July 2 - It was a dream of Raimundo Delfino, the owner of Santana, the Brazilian textile giant, to have a manufacturing plant in the United States and today the dream is a little closer.

BROWNSVILLE, June 30 - Negotiations with university officials must continue before the Department of Homeland Security can start building a border fence on the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville, KVEO-TV’s Ron Whitlock reports.

EDINBURG, June 30 - Hidalgo County will advertise statewide to find a successor to Teresa Navarro as Hidalgo County Elections Administrator.

WESLACO, Rio Grande Valley Partnership President and CEO Bill Summers says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are becoming more and more mean to American citizens crossing back into the U.S. from Mexico.

McALLEN, June 30 - In a much talked about campaign video launched at the recent Republican Party of Texas Convention in Houston, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is referred to as "Big Bad John."

BROWNSVILLE, June 28 - A Brownsville community activist says political leaders in her city and in Cameron County are forgoing their chance to make history as champions in the fight against the border wall.

BROWNSVILLE, June 28 - Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada has made an urgent plea for city residents opposed to the border wall to attend Tuesday’s City Commission meeting.

WESLACO, June 27 - A top state transportation official is to visit the Rio Grande Valley next month to assure Hidalgo County leaders that U.S. Hwy 281 will not be lost in the shuffle as U.S. Hwy 77 gets upgraded to interstate standard.

WESLACO, June 26 - A regional forum in opposition to the border wall organized by environmentalists and community leaders is to be held at South Texas College in Weslaco today (Thursday).

EDINBURG, June 25 - More than 50 jobs are likely to be lost at Texas State Bank’s Edinburg Regional Operations Center over the next couple of months, according to a top banker with Compass Bank.

AUSTIN, June 25 - State Rep. Ryan Guillen has been appointed chair of a Select Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the state of health care in South Texas.

AUSTIN, June 25 - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says it is still too early to discuss what changes, if any, should be made to the business margins tax.

WESLACO, June 25 - The team that has been selected to create a master development plan for the I-69/Trans Texas Corridor project will be announced Thursday, says the Texas Department of Transportation.

McALLEN, June 25 - State Rep. Kino Flores, D-Palmview, says the current property tax system in Texas is broken and unfair for residential and commercial taxpayers.

BROWNSVILLE, June 24 - El Paso County Attorney José Rodríguez says a border wall lawsuit generated in El Paso and now involving South Texas conservation groups will not be immediately affected by an unfavorable decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in a similar case.