Showdown in the Rio Grande Valley

Abbott's demands means audience not welcome at debate with Davis

"...D-Fort Worth, but it seems their arguments over a Rio Grande Valley meeting have paid off. Carlos Sanchez, editor..."

Sept. 2, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park

A great place for bird-watching

"...Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park outside of Mission is a..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

University of Texas Women's Soccer vs. Rio Grande Valley

Sept. 19, 2018 Photo Gallery

Rio Grande No Longer?

An overview of the ecological crisis along the Rio Grande

"...booming border towns, and fast-growing cities line the Lower Rio Grande (known in Mexico as the Rio Bravo) as..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Tales from the Valley

Author David Rice Interviewed

"...Chance, a collection of short stories set in the Rio Grande Valley. Rice grew up in the Valley as..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Toros NBA Call-Ups and Much More

Thomas now with the Hornets

"...Toros lose 114-120 to the home-team Vipers of the Rio Grande Valley, I sat in that car, staring straight..."

Dec. 18, 2011 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

Drag Out HIV for Pride 2018

Beatrix Lastrange joins forces with Planned Parenthood for Pride

"...awareness drag performance group comprised of queens from the Rio Grande Valley...."

Aug. 10, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Day Trips: Resaca de la Palma State Park

Former river channel provides a tropical paradise for Rio Grande Valley wildlife

"...Birding Center's network of nine sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. At any given time, the 1,200 acres..."

July 22, 2016 Column by Gerald McLeod

Ice Bats Eliminated From Playoff Contention

"...About halfway through the second period last night, Rio Grande Valley's David Masse scored a..."

March 21, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

No Room at the Health Care Inn

State policies endangering women's lives in the Valley

"...clinics providing services to low-income, uninsured women in the Rio Grande Valley shuttered operations and the number of women..."

Nov. 12, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...suspects as much. He's a county judge in the Rio Grande Valley, hard on the border with Mexico. Vera..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

The River and the Wall

More than a nature hike, this border wall documentary replaces rhetoric with reality

"...At 1,759 miles, the Rio Grande is the fourth-largest river in the United States,..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fuller Versus IDEA

Charter school group attacks academic's work, he rebuts

"...Fuller's analysis of IDEA Public Schools' results in the Valley...."

Dec. 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Toxic Border

Researchers ponder increasing birth defects in the Valley.

"...defects didn't even exist in Texas. In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, determining what was causing anencephaly turned out..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Best List Bust-Up

Valley Veterans leap to defense of Rep. Flores over inclusion on "Texas Monthly" list

"...wounds it opened still seem raw, especially in the Valley...."

June 16, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Active Plan, Brownsville

Tropical trail mix comes to the RGV

"...trails that show off the diversity of the lower Rio Grande Valley...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park comes alive with wildlife during the winter months, but is enjoyable all year long

"...Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, outside of Mission, explodes with..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Mission, Texas

Border wall to cut off sacred ground

"...more than 100 years a short distance from the Rio Grande before it came to the nation's attention. Additions..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

All but Illegal

As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure

"...in facing patient panic and tear-filled anxiety – the scenario was repeated all over Texas. More than a dozen..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Day Trips

The beautiful and peaceful Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Rio Grande City is steeped in history, religious and otherwise

"...Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Rio Grande City has an international history. Built to resemble..."

April 6, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

How to Help Families Separated at the Border

Ways to volunteer, ways to donate, ways to take action

"...or collaborating with an interpreter. Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley..."

June 20, 2018 Emergency Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

The salt lake La Sal del Rey in central Hidalgo County is as inhospitable as it is beautiful

"...sea, says Bryan Winton, refuge manager for the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. "It is an integral..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Aloe King: Soothing the Lower Rio Grande Valley for four decades

"...such high-quality plants as the plantations of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. That's no brag, just fact. In the..."

June 30, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

The Border Patrol settles a suit by several environmental groups, who claimed that the agency's beefed-up efforts at the border have harmed several endangered species.

"...a gap in the paramilitary operations that attend the Rio Grande, which separates the U.S. from its southern neighbor...."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Facing the South

The Democratic primary for the new CD 25 pits Austin's Lloyd Doggett against McAllen's Leticia Hinojosa

"...more than 90% Hispanic and is dominated by the Rio Grande Valley, from McAllen west to Falcon Reservoir. And..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

For the first time in recorded history, the Rio Grande has failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico.

"...Environmental Studies Center at Laredo Community College, found the Rio Grande in the middle of an existential crisis: To..."

June 8, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Perry Wears Egg

Agriculture Commissioner Takes It on the Chin

"...were widespread and catastrophic. The cotton harvest in the Rio Grande Valley was a tenth of the expected yield...."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Back From the Grave

Mexic-Arte Explores Guerrero Viejo

"...Falcon Dam that would harness the waters of the Rio Grande below Laredo, they calculated that the newly created..."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature by Chris Walters

Day Trips: Hidalgo Pumphouse Museum

Museum tells the story of the Rio Grande Valley

"...on the first railroad tracks. The waters of the Rio Grande nourished the newly planted citrus orchards and vegetable..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Boca Chica Beach might be the most unspoiled public beach on the Texas coast

"...stretches about 10 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande (when it makes it this far) to the..."

May 4, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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