Del Rio News

The city of Del Rio needs a voice in future plans for the region's water supply, one city councilman says.

The 10th Annual Chamber of Commerce Wild Game Dinner will be Dec. 5 Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at the Del Rio Civic Center and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Dinner tickets are $20 each and include your meal, soft drinks and door prizes.

Tourism and the activities of the Del Rio Convention and Visitors Bureau top the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of the Del Rio City Council.

A 31-year-old Del Rio man has been arrested and charged with felony assault in connection with a bar fight that left another man critically wounded, police say.

Four teenagers who police say broke into the old North Heights Elementary School and started at least 20 small fires have been charged with burglary.

Three large pieces of equipment traveling through Del Rio hampered northbound traffic on Veterans Boulevard for several hours overnight.

They live in Mexico, but your tax dollars are educating them. There they are the smiling faces of American children, proudly waving their American passports n their way to American public schools in Del Rio, Texas.

Architects on the Garfield Elementary replacement school say progress is 'picking up speed', but questions remained about when, exactly, the school will open.

A $5,000 stipend was reinstated last night after two speech language pathologists filed a grievance with the public school board.

The San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet tonight.

More than 25 colorful model airplanes flew high into the sky Saturday afternoon.

Four persons have been arrested for breaking into a downtown clothing store and stealing more than $5,000 worth of merchandise.

The status of a street just south of the Del Rio city limits will not change, county commissioners court decided Monday.

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Rolando Carbajal, Raymundo Mendoza Jr., Dionicio Trevino and Alexander Zubov are the newest members of the Del Rio Police Department following their graduation Friday from the DRPD Academy.

For years patients at Val Verde Regional Medical Center in need of dialysis had to leave town for treatment, but that has all changed.

With the passage of Proposition 1 the city and county might now have the ability to purchase land around Laughlin Air Force Base to create buffer zones.

After two years, the public school system has pulled its bilingual education programs away from the brink of state takeover.

Radney Foster started his career as a songwriter, then found commercial success and critical acclaim as part of the duo Foster & Lloyd, and finally embarked on a solo career in 1991 that centered on his literate approach to country songwriting.

Sandra T. Hernandez was named principal at Del Rio Middle School by the public school board Monday night.