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A water tower along West Nolana Avenue in McAllen. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribune. The Rio Grande Valley region would not have enough water to meet demand for cities, farming, and ...
An aerial view of the Tres Lagos neighborhood in McAllen on May 12. ... As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas leaders look to new water supplies to sustain growth.
President Trump's promise to stem the flow of migrants across the border seems fulfilled: Fewer migrants are crossing and ...
Six miles south of downtown on Texas Highway 115, just a short drive from the Rio Grande, Rosa Villarreal has been running the 50,000-square-foot ropa usada warehouse Tres Dimensiones for 37 years.
McALLEN — Democrats are ready to fight for South Texas. That is the message Kendall Scudder, the new chair of the Texas Democratic Party, shared last weekend as he visited the Rio Grande Valley ...
The Rio Grande Valley already grapples with climatic challenges. Each summer brings a growing number of triple-digit days. Sea level rise and beach erosion claim a bit more coastline every year.
Palmview, located west of McAllen, received more than 18 inches of rain over the past two days. ... Flooding in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, March 28, 2025. NBC 5 News and The Associated Press.
At least three people died in a South Texas county after around 20 inches of rain fell on the Rio Grande Valley, causing what the state agriculture commissioner called catastrophic flooding.
Dina Arévalo has been a journalist in the Rio Grande Valley since 2004 and is a graduate from Baylor University. She was previously with The Monitor in McAllen covering Hidalgo County governments ...
A water tower along West Nolana Avenue in McAllen. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribune. The Rio Grande Valley region would not have enough water to meet demand for cities, farming, and ...
This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. MISSION — More than 100 years ago, developers lured farmers to the Rio Grande Valley by marketing the ...
This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. MISSION — More than 100 years ago, developers lured farmers to the Rio Grande Valley by marketing the ...