A historic Texas site from the Southbound Underground Railroad is still intact despite being in the path of former President Trump’s border.
Written by Denise Guerra on Mar 3 2023 - 3:19pm
Texas Democrats fume over national counterparts for insufficient support in South Texas battleground
Written by Texas Tribune on Oct 11 2022 - 2:47pm
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune
Oct. 11, 2022
Texas lawmakers discuss where Rio Grande Valley voters stand on abortion, gun rights and health care
Written by Texas Tribune on Aug 30 2022 - 10:57am
By Jesus Vidales, The Texas Tribune
Aug. 8, 2022
Inside the Interim with Rio Grande Valley Lawmakers
Threats from QAnon conspiracists have forced a butterfly sanctuary in the Rio Grande Valley to close
Written by Texas Tribune on Feb 22 2022 - 12:21pm
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats.
The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, has long been the target of QAnon conspiracy theories falsely tying the organization to human trafficking.
Written by Texas Tribune on Feb 21 2022 - 3:49pm
By Erin Douglas, The Texas Tribune
The construction of border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley could jeopardize a rare Texas plant’s survival, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.
Written by Steve Taylor on Nov 14 2018 - 4:47pm
By Steve Taylor, Rio Grande Guardian
ALAMO, RGV – The Lower Rio Grande Valley Sierra Club has responded to an upcoming visit to South Texas by Defense Secretary, Marine General James Mattis.
Written by Joseph Tucker on Aug 21 2017 - 5:21pm
By Joseph Tucker
Increased raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Border Patrol agents are frightening women away from the only reproductive health clinic in the Rio Grande Valley, according to a reproductive rights advocate.
Written by Texas Tribune on Aug 13 2017 - 2:56pm
by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune
It’s supposed to be God, not government, that decides when a Catholic church that’s been welcoming parishioners since 1899 should burn its last candle.
Written by Mark Reagan on Jan 24 2017 - 4:31pm
As more than 1,700 victims of a decades-long toxic tragedy in the Rio Grande Valley are about to get settlement offers from exposure a dangerous Superfund site, a digital activist is publishing an online trove of documents, videos, photos and news stories chronicling the story of the Hayes-Sammons warehouse environmental disaster in Mission.