La Villa News

Investigators are calling a fire at a La Villa home suspicious. On Monday night, crews found a house on the 100 Block of Gumwood on fire.

The Cameron County Commissioners' Court on Friday will consider approving a contract with a privately run detention center in Brooks County that would allow Cameron County to transfer nearly 100 inmates there.

The five families who live just outside of La Villa do the best they can living without clean water.

Less than a week after performing on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien , rapper Pitbull will bring his reggaeton-style sounds to the Mercedes Livestock Showgrounds as part of Latino Festival 2009.

It's a place where criminals go to pay their debt to society, but on Monday night, the La Villa Prison was also the site of a concert.

A fast moving fire got within feet of several homes Thursday night. The fire broke out near the intersection of Farm to Market road 88 and Mile 17A1 2, crews from Weslaco, Edinburg, La Villa and Monte Alto were called in to help the Elsa Fire Department stop the flames.

The man police are looking for is 28-year-old Ernesto De La Garza, Jr. Before his escape, he had been charged with unlawful restraint, domestic assault, and evading arrest.

Hidalgo County leaders are a step closer to solving a water emergency near La Villa.

People who live North of town are facing a crisis. They have been getting water illegally from the irrigation district to use in their homes.

For decades, Texas country was a hard sell down in the Rio Grande Valley. Now, a new live music series by one of the Valley's most revered promoters is changing all that.

Hidalgo County officials and a water company are now working to help some La Villa families get a new water source.

The residents from several homes in the small neighborhood have been using irrigation water inside their homes.