Hidalgo News

McALLEN The Farm Service Agency is urging growers assailed by drought, high temperatures and wild fires this year to apply for emergency loans to cover their losses, the agency said recently.

Jesus Castillo never imagined he would be working for NASA. He thought of space exploration as too much for him and "out of his reach" when he was growing up in Hidalgo.

Federal authorities have identified more than 1,000 immigrants with criminal records in the Hidalgo and Starr county jails during the first five months of a program that aims to deport those who have committed serious crimes.

The industrial park north of town was little more than empty land crawling with ants and snakes when Gerardo "Jerry" Nuez set up shop there five years ago.

Smugglers are using the Valley's underground drainage network to get their cargo into the United States.

A 21-year-old Weslaco, Texas woman is facing federal drug charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they discovered nearly one-point-eight-million-dollars worth of heroin in her vehicle.

Former Baylor basketball players Curtis Jerrells could be playing in the NBA D-League this year.

With a prayer and a pledge, about 50 veterans from wars from Korea to Iraq began a two-day car caravan across the Rio Grande Valley to raise awareness for their latest effort for a hospital - Proposition 8. One of 11 propositions on the Nov.

Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas has been named a regional administrator the U.S. General Services Administration.

McALLEN The unemployment rate swung up again in September across the Rio Grande Valley, with Hidalgo County again suffering the highest jobless rate in the state .

Sometimes children have to be removed from their homes because of neglect and that's what the Heart Gallery of South Texas was all about Thursday night; finding homes for children in need of a mom and dad.

With no job, five young mouths to feed and an income earned by his wife that barely breaks $19,000 a year, Chris Valle still considers himself lucky.

The five families who live just outside of La Villa do the best they can living without clean water.

Ada Teller can't always afford treatment for breast cancer, so she suspects the disease has gotten worse.

Two weekend busts took $1.5 million worth of drugs off the streets. Officers at the Hidalgo International Bridge found 19 packages of cocaine in the dashboard of a 2008 Toyota Tundra truck.

The recession deepened poverty and widened the gap between the richest and poorest families in Hidalgo County in 2008, according to newly released Census figures.

From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

A training for child care providers that focuses on seasonal topics is scheduled for Saturday, Oct.

Hidalgo County's levee system is at the center of a complaint filed Thursday by a former staff attorney at the International Boundary and Water Commission who accuses the agency of failing to follow federal protocol on major projects in the county.

City officials and leaders in Greater McAllen are pushing to have the Anzalduas International Bridge open before the holiday shopping season.