Olivarez News

With brightly colored walls and dangling pastel metal stars, Flour Power Caf and Bakery looks every inch of its 1960s-inspired name.

22 for this year's Ready or Not Shopping Card. The card is the culmination of many hours of work on behalf of children like Canales' daughter, Jackie Black.

Joel Dilley and his band will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at the 49th annual Texas Jazz Festival.

By THOMAS JENKINS Staff Writer A Howard County grand jury handed down 23 indictments Thursday, including a true bill for murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Big Spring youth.

10: "Fall is for Planting Trees and Shrubs" with James Gill. Information: 992-9674. HOUSEPLANT SEMINARS: "Houseplants" seminar begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at Turner's Gardenland, 6503 S. Padre Island Drive.

An Edinburg gas company has joined the growing list of U.S. businesses linked to selling petroleum stolen from Mexico's state-run oil monopoly.

A $3 million substance abuse treatment facility is expected to open nearly four years after state legislators approved it.

The Hidalgo County Health Department says it's only a matter of time before we see a mosquito problem.

Doctors say it will be weeks before the new H1N1 flu vaccine makes it to the Valley.

For three months, El Milagro Clinic wasn't reimbursed for the healthcare services it provided to the county's poorest of the poor.

Getting things moving Larry Winton, sales manager for Armstrong Moving and Storage of Lubbock, has achieved United Van Lines' Masters Club Award.

Local business woman Yolanda Olivarez has been appointed as a regional administrator for the small business administration.

Yolanda Garcia Olivarez has been appointed regional administrator for the U.S. Small Business Admini stration district that includes El Paso.

Yolanda Garcia Olivarez has been appointed regional administrator for the U.S. Small Business Admini stration district that includes El Paso.

A dramatic slump in new home construction is easing, suggesting the area's housing market is nearing the bottom of a two-year free fall.

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.