McAllen has decided to move forward with its plans to build a $5 million pedestrian tunnel that will connect the McAllen Convention Center, Westside Park and the Palms Crossing shopping center. Officially called the McAllen Ware Road Pedestrian tunnel, work is expected to begin around September...
Cameron County officials inaugurated South Padre’s first public boat ramp in over 30 years yesterday. The ramp located at 1705 Laguna Boulevard is called Marisol (Laguna Madre) Boat Ramp. According to the city’s Shoreline Director Kristina Boburka, “another bayside access is huge” because the city...
An unidentified company recently requested a specific use permit to build a data center and cold storage facility in an empty building on Padre Island Highway. The building, originally a Walmart, was most recently used to hold undocumented children. When asked by the Brownsville Herald, both...
McAllen received a $6 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to help further build out the city’s 47 acre industrial park. Funds will be used to build roads, water, sewer and other infrastructure in and around the industrial park to better...
Over the weekend, the Rio Grande Valley reported its first case of New World screwworm. On Sunday officials from Starr County confirmed the reported case occurred in a western part of the county and that they are working closely with the Texas Animal Health Commission...
The Port of Brownsville was chosen yesterday as the site for Saronic Technologies’ Port Alpha, a next generation shipyard focused on software and autonomous based ship technologies. The $3.2bn project comes at the hand of Saronic Technologies which was founded in 2022 and designs and builds...
Carlos Gonzalez Jr. of Roma ISD has been announced as this year’s Region One Superintendent of the Year, making him one of five finalists for the statewide Superintendent of the Year award awarded by the Texas Association of School Boards or TASB. He’s the finalist...
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 this Thursday. The launch window will open at 5:45pm and close at 7:56pm. If they aren’t able to launch Thursday, they will try again on Friday. The Super Heavy B20 has been sitting on Boca Chica’s Orbital Launch Pad...
Boca Chica Beach will not be renamed Cyber Beach . Most did not even know the name was under threat. Yesterday a federal panel called the Domestic Names Committee of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names held a hearing on the proposal and officially rejected it. Proposed...
On Tuesday morning, U.S. congressman, Vicente Gonzalez (D-Brownsville) delivered $850,000 (he literally presented city leaders with a check) to the Mercedes municipal government to improve the city’s stormwater drainage system. More specifically, the money will be directed towards updating storm lines in 3 areas of the...
