Progreso News

The deaths of two workers this month in a primitive coal mine in northern Mexico have sparked outrage and fear in the region and could be the catalyst that, after months of little progress in improving the mines, forces the government to close the most dangerous operations.

A man died after he apparently jumped out and was run over by a moving car driven by his common law wife Saturday evening, sheriff's deputies said.

What: Reception for the official debut of black and white photo exhibition When: 2 p.m. Saturday In the darkness, Yolanda Casanova captured the stillness of her Southmost neighborhood after all of its voices had subsided into the silence of the night.

CBP officers found 22 pounds of Mexican brown heroin hidden in a pickup truck's batteries.

Customs officers arrested a Weslaco woman after they found nearly $1.8 million worth of heroin hidden inside a pickup truck's batteries.

Voters return to the polls today in this city for the first time after a string of questioned elections that have resulted in grand jury investigations and criminal charges for illegally cast ballots.

Cows and goats; they're the unwelcome neighbors in a Progreso neighborhood. While the animals feel right at home, people who live around them are not so comfortable.

Beyond the statewide constitutional amendments, voters in seven Hidalgo County cities will also consider issues.

High school marching bands from Brownsville to Roma will showcase their talent at Pigskin Jubilee marching band competitions Saturday.

We are relieved that CAFOD partnersa demands have been heard and the oppressive decree imposed by Michelettia s a oede factoa government, which suspended civil liberties, has been lifted to pave the way for negotiations.

South Padre Island BikeFest will not be leading a guided tour across the border this year.

"Last week, Office of the Attorney General investigators arrested three convicted felons who are accused of casting illegal votes in the Progreso Independent School District election in May 2008.

A criminal probe into alleged voter fraud in the city's 2008 school board elections has borne its first fruits.

The Winter Texans have gone home, and visitors who usually cross the border to frequent this city in the slow summer months aren't coming here this year.

Two new grants will give UTB-TSC students and alumni of the school the opportunity to receive scholarships to become teachers or improve their teaching expertise.

Funeral arrangements for Lt. Col. Vernon Lee Sewell, 72, who passed away on Thursday and are pending with Heavenly Grace Funeral Home & Crematory.

Funeral arrangements for Lt. Col. Vernon Lee Sewell, 72, who passed away on Thursday and are pending with Heavenly Grace Funeral Home & Crematory.

What kind of art would best represent a rapidly developing country coming out of the social upheaval of a violent revolution - especially when it had, only a century before that, just thrown off the yoke of colonial rule? Twentieth-century Mexico faced just this question - how it attempted to answer it can be seen in the exhibition "Camino A La ...

Owners say since new U.S. rules requiring passports took effect in June, business has dropped drastically.

If you want to see Joe King Carrasco perform these days, you're going to have to run for the border.