Olivarez News

The Olivares family, drive by the Mid-Valley airport every day. They never thought they'd see a plane crash.

At first, I thought it was just a hangover. Cobwebs filled my head. My joints ached.

Backers will tell you the proposed "Cash for Clunkers" program is a big winner all away around.

A Hidalgo County health department employee was arrested on charges he told a woman she would have to sit on his lap and kiss him to qualify for medical assistance.

There can never be enough hand sanitizer. That's just one of the things Tony Pea, the Hidalgo County emergency management coordinator, took away from the swine flu scare as the county demobilized its emergency operations center Friday.

Despite the confirmation of three cases in neighboring Starr and Cameron counties of the Type A H1N1 Influenza virus, commonly known as the Swine Flu, Hidalgo County officials have not reported any confirmed cases of the illness within the county.

Hidalgo County Health and Human Services confirms the first Type A H1N1 Influenza case in Hidalgo County out the Weslaco area.

Schools here will be closed, effective immed- iately, for at least seven days, district officials announced Thursday after learning that a high school student had been diagnosed with a "probable" case of swine flu.

NEWSCHANNEL 5 has learned the Weslaco school district is closing down all schools, starting immediately.

The Rio Grande Valley's swine flu panic started over the weekend and continued growing.

No cases of swine flu have been confirm in Cameron County, according to Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos.

Four local health clinics that serve the poor are cutting back services as they cope with a funding shortfall attributed to Wednesday's expiration of a one-time Hidalgo County grant.

Lela Olivarez's living room has been taken over by the nearly 200 dozen cascarones she has made for Easter.

Pam Teel of Corpus Christi Appraisal, John Carlson of Braswell Office Systems and Laura Hebert of Hebert & Associates Insurance are the Corpus Christi-area directors instated to the 2009 board of the Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal and Southwest Texas.

As a nun in 17th century Mexico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz challenged her culture and religion with her belief that women had a right to education.

Eli Olivarez wants more than gay rights. He wants equality. The best way to get both of them in a conservative state is to fight for it, said Olivarez, 53, a Rio Grande Valley native who has been active in the ...

Brycen Bell and Martin Parra each drove in three runs to help Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beat Texas Texas 7-5 on Tuesday night.

The silent killers are the ones that worry Beto Gutierrez the most. Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and other quiet but deadly diseases are undiagnosed in thousands of undocumented, uninsured Rio ...

The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band will march in an off-season performance Saturday to conclude the 75th convention of the American Bandmasters Association .

An insurance clerk reportedly stole a portion of a woman's auto insurance money.