Cameron County News

El Paso firefighters who are part of the El Paso All Hazards Incident Management Team have been deployed to the Texas Gulf Coast to assist with relief in the wake of tropical storm Dolly.

County, state and federal authorities plan to take tour of the Rio Grande Valley via a military Blackhawk helicopter to survey the areas impacted by Hurricane Dolly this afternoon.

Right now several residents in Cameron County are headed to shelters. That's where they are guaranteed a safe, dry place to sleep.

Harlingen and the upper Cameron County area are now feeling the strongest wind and heaviest rain from Hurricane Dolly, the National Weather Service in Brownsville said.

Torrential rains are passing through Cameron County as Hurricane Dolly inches closer to the area.

Cities and counties up and down the Texas coast say they have prepared for the arrival of Tropical Storm Dolly.

'If Hurricane Dolly stays on its projected path, about 1.5 million people could feel the effects of the storm as it makes landfall, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.

Coastal officials worried Tuesday that Tropical Storm Dolly may bring so much rain that flooding could break through the levees holding back the Rio Grande.

Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywood, generators and flashlights as forecasters predicted the storm would strengthen into a ...

Opinions differ on whether the stalled Ocean Tower project north of the city limits has potential to discourage other development, but local officials all say they would like to see the leaning structure ...

Unemployment in Cameron County increased again in June after making significant gains over the last year, Unemployment in the Brownsville-Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area increased to 6.8 percent in June ...

Former Cameron County District Attorney Yolanda de Leon spent a few minutes in a Cameron County jail Wednesday after voluntarily surrendering to authorities.

Cameron County Commissioners remained silent as they reviewed the figures for themselves: The county's revenues from international bridges have decreased again.

The Brownsville Independent School District will be getting a $59,315.18 bill from Cameron County for running the district's November 2006 election.

A South Texas mother convicted of torturing and beating to death her 2 1/2 -year-old daughter has been sentenced to die.

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Jury deliberation in a Harlingen murder continues at the Cameron County Courthouse.

After several days of rain, Cameron County must now prepare to combat a familiar enemy: the mosquito.

A jury handed down a death sentence late Thursday for a Harlingen mother convicted of beating her 2 1/2-year-old daughter to death in February 2007 in a Lee Street apartment.

Record July rainfall likely damaged as much as 40 percent of the Rio Grande Valley's sorghum crop, worth about $48 million, an official said Wednesday.