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Hazy days: Valley’s air quality much worse than larger metropolitan cities
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s no secret that the Rio Grande Valley’s air quality hasn’t been the best recently. But did you know that even Los Angeles and New York City, where smog was once synonymous with their skylines, have better air quality than South Texas.
Affidavit provides new details in fatal Queen Isabella Causeway crash; suspect released from jail
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Court documents provided new details in a fatal crash on the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway that claimed the life of a 20-year-old Valley woman. Hugo Ernesto Lara, 48, was arrested on a charge of intoxication manslaughter in connection to a crash Sunday that killed Mariah Desiree Enriquez of Edinburg, […]
Treviño: I am hopeful the two LNG firms will listen to the concerns of environmentalists
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., says he hopes the concerns of environmentalists will be listened to as two liquefied natural gas export terminals get constructed at the Port of Brownsville. At a public hearing organized by Cameron County Commissioners Court, dozens of nature-lovers spoke...
San Benito to open up splash pad this weekend
SAN BENITO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The City of San Benito announces the Splash Pad at First Responders Community Park will be open Friday through Sunday. According to the city, due to current drought conditions, the splash pad will only be operational on those days 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. These adjustments, the city says, are […]
South Texas Health System Children’s Hospital Safe Summer Expo
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — School is out and summer is here. South Texas Health System Children’s Hospital and participating law enforcement and safety organizations are set for their first-ever Safe Summer Expo. All families of the Rio Grande Valley are invited to come and participate. Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 8 from 9 a.m. […]
Celebrating Women’s Veterans Day in Texas
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On June 12 Women’s Veterans Day in Texas is celebrated. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed into law, the Women’s Armed Forces Intergration Act. Making women permanent and regular in the U.S. Armed Forces. In 2017 Texas passed into law Texas Women’s Veterans Day on June 12, the day President […]
Houston investigative firm probing San Benito involvement with VARCO
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An investigative firm is probing the San Benito Economic Development Corporation’s involvement with a company developing the city’s first resaca-side commercial center. On Thursday, Wayne Dolcefino, owner of Houston-based Dolcefino Consulting, declined to disclose his client’s name while describing his investigation as...
Garza: If things don’t turn out as planned with the LNG projects, I’ll have to live with it
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – It was David A. Garza, Cameron County’s longest-serving county commissioner, who made the motion to give Texas LNG a 40 percent tax abatement for the next ten years. The company, which is owned by Glenfarne Energy Transition, is building a liquefied natural gas export terminal...
Feds: No bond for Harlingen man caught with 77lbs of cocaine, 29lbs of heroin
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Harlingen man is being held without bond after he was caught with bundles of cocaine and heroin at the Los Indios Port of Entry, documents allege. Noah Martin Corona was arrested on a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, records...
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