Primera News

People living in an area on the west side annexed last November by the city have ramped up their effort to pressure the city to deannex them.

McKinney Economic Development Corporation announced today that it has hired Greg Sims for the position of Business Retention and Expansion Director.

Four Cameron County cities will be getting extra funding for Hurricane Dolly repairs.

Mayors of four small cities cried foul Monday as they described the process of dividing $50 million in federal and state disaster funding for damage caused by last year's Hurricane Dolly.

The leaders of Santa Rosa, Primera, Combes and Rio Hondo are calling their cities forgotten towns.

Seven candidates vied for four alderman positions in Primera. Election tallies showed that Pat Patterson with 86 votes, David Osborne with 60, Angela Ramirez-Gonzalez with 91 and Jose J. Ramirez with 45 won the four open seats at the end of the night.

To the Editor: Veterans were surprised with the announcement made by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Representative Henry Cuellar at the groundbreaking ceremonies.

A Harlingen man was arraigned today on a charge in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 58-year-old Primera woman.

Pregnancy is not a disease and it's not something to be waited out or gotten over.

A Department of Public Safety dispatcher said Primera police are responding to an accident at the intersection of Stuart Place Road and Wilson Road.

Read classic Skip Hollandsworth on serial killers, bank robbers, drug dealers, gangs, and more.

The city's population gained nearly 6,000 people in the past year, bringing it close to 75,000. In one year, the population jumped from 69,359 to 74,950, according to a city staff estimate presented by Paul ...

The state plans two projects totaling $15 million to widen two stretches of U.S. Business 77 through parts of Harlingen, San Benito and the Primera area, officials said Wednesday.

Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirre Jr. said that there was a time late last year that he was concerned whether the economy would effect how homeowners pay their property taxes.

Harlingen and Primera police are searching for at least two people who ran from a traffic stop near a mobile home park on South Palm Court Drive.