The McAllen
T he PossAble Dream Adult High School is opening doors for adult learners who earn high school diplomas and industry certificates years after dropping out of high school. The school has seven campuses in the Rio Grande Valley, with offices in Pharr and Brownsville, where it occup...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Sharyland Independent School District Transportation Department is taking a new approach to manage fuel costs and efficiency. Sharyland ISD introduced major changes that went into effect at the start of the 2026-2027 school year. RELATED: ‘S...
H ARLINGEN — Licensed Vocational Nurses, or LVNs, play a crucial role in many labs, doctors’ offices, and other medical settings. That’s why the Valley Baptist Medical Center School of Vocational Nursing is concerned about the slow enrollment for the next class which begins in Ja...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- It's time for another week of high school football! The Valley Sports Team is highlighting the Mission Veterans and PSJA Southwest matchup. We will go live from PSJA Stadium on Friday to bring our viewers highlights from the game. Our live Game...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In Week 5 of High School Football, Valley Sports Central has nominated three teams for Team of the Week. The nominees are Edcouch-Elsa, Rio Hondo, and Sharyland Pioneer. The three teams all defeated previously undefeated teams. Edcouch-Elsa The ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- All IDEA Public Schools in the Rio Grande Valley will be offering free meals to all students in the community starting in October. IDEA says the meal offering is part of their commitment to providing children with access to nutritious food thro...
M ariah Alvarez was 2 years old when she died from injuries to her head and other parts of her body in February 2007. Had she lived, she would be old enough to have graduated from high school, married and begun her own family. Instead, doubts remain over how she died and whether ...
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Eel is his favorite training food, he's only 11 years old, and he found his niche in his sport when he was in kindergarten. His thing is esports. Meet Yuki Kurihara, the Japanese elementary school student who defeated Kang Dongshin of South Korea 10-2 on Satu...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It's week five of high school football and the Valley Sports Central team has your highlights on Overtime. Sports Director Megan Murray and Sports Reporters Brett Holmes and Noah Gulley are bringing you coverage from Rio Hondo at Lyford, Vela at...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In this edition of Mic'd Up, Photojournalist Diego Tijerina follows Juarez-Lincoln Head Football Coach Daniel Cortez as the Huskies took on Sharyland Pioneer. The Huskies entered district play in uncharted territory: 4-0 for the first time in sc...
MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Rising fuel prices are adding another financial challenge for school districts across the Rio Grande Valley, with transportation costs putting pressure on budgets already dealing with declining enrollment. Point Isabel Independent School District ...
Pablo Javier Almaguer “I t’s a dream job,” Pablo Javier Almaguer said with a chipper voice as he welcomed the opportunity in front of him. Almaguer was recently named the new director of the Colonias Program at the Texas A&M Higher Education Center in McAllen following the retire...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It's week five of high school football and Valley Sports Central has your Thursday night highlights. ON VALLEYCENTRAL+: Watch live high school football games on ValleyCentral+ Sports Director Megan Murray and Sport Reporters Brett Holmes and Noa...
H ARLINGEN — A developer building a 1,100-acre data center campus on the city’s outskirts has “reserved” 1.5GW of power for the project’s $4 billion first phase. While Fluidstack’s reserved the amount from AEP-Texas, the company “could use less” power to operate the data center. ...
N otable shifts with profound implications are underway in higher education and other post-secondary training across the country. More students are choosing less time-consuming (and, hence, less expensive) options, demographic trends are decreasing the numbers of potential studen...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Boys and Girls Club of San Benito now has a new space where current and future students can create new memories. The Center of Hope is a new space at the Boys and Girls Club of San Benito created in partnership with Panda Cares, a Panda Expr...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from IDEA Public Schools. PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Declining enrollment is becoming an ongoing challenge for public schools across Texas, including several major school districts in the Rio Grande Valley. Fewer stu...
MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — Only four years ago, Jackson Koivun played in the Junior Presidents Cup as a high school senior and wandered around Quail Hollow Club a little star struck being around the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas. It was only 112 day...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — An elementary school in Edinburg was placed on lockdown Wednesday after a person was reportedly seen with a weapon near the campus. The Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District confirmed in a statement that Cayetano Cavazos Elementary S...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Watching live high school football games is easier than ever with our free ValleyCentral+ app. ValleyCentral is the only news station in the region to bring you live broadcasts from the Harlingen, Brownsville, Weslaco, and McAllen school distric...
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Although Deion Sanders said he dismissed a few players from the team on the heels of Colorado's first loss, the process has not be finalized, the school said in a statement Tuesday. An updated roster will be released later in the week. Sanders, the coach of ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State hockey coaches were present when a player collapsed during an outdoor workout, but plans for the training session were not submitted to the school, according to a preliminary issued by the university on Tuesday. Matthew Mayich collapsed during an...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Valley Sports Central has nominated three high school football teams for Team of the Week. The nominees are Mission Veterans, McAllen High and PSJA North. Here are some recent highlights of our nominees. Mission Veterans Starting with Mission Ve...
Supervised work training T he Rio Grande Valley is expanding workforce development through programs that connect education to real jobs. South Texas College’s current catalog highlights workforce partnerships and registered apprenticeship, while regional healthcare training is de...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado State issued an apology to BYU on Saturday night for derogatory chants aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints coming from the stands. The school said that “mocking anyone’s faith has no place at CSU.” BYU is the flagship schoo...
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Joey Logano won the Cup Series race Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, while the driver he passed for the win stole the show with old-school NASCAR feuding and fisticuffs. Carson Hocevar, a brash 23-year-old who has earned the ire of veteranswith his aggres...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) —Sports Director Megan Murray, Brett Homes and Noah Gulley bring you Overtime, a new 30-minute show that dives into extended highlights and exclusive interviews with players and coaches. RELATED: Watch live high school football games on ValleyCent...
M cALLEN — The dance, the shimmering dance with the rippling of colors fluttering in the broiling sun, captivated the viewers. The drums and the grand riffs of the brass and the swift marching movements of the musicians also commanded everyone’s attention as high school bands fro...
MISSION, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Leaders with the Mission Consolidated Independent School District are looking ahead to continued enrollment declines and the potential financial impact on the district, including possible changes to campuses and staffing. Mission CISD recently pre...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Valley Sports Team has chosen to highlight the PSJA North Raiders and the Weslaco High School Panthers for the Week 4 segment of Game Changers. Game Changers features our Valley Sports Team where they select two players that they think will...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In this edition of Mic'd Up, Photojournalist Diego Tijerina follows Rio Hondo Head Football Coach Rocky James as the Bobcats take on St. Joseph's Academy in their homecoming game at their newly renovated stadium. The Bobcats started off with two...
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will assemble the state's largest law enforcement presence ever for a college football game this weekend, highlighting the heightened security in place around the stadium and off campus for the much-anticipated game Saturday night against LSU and ...
U TRGV announced that all operations and classes on the Edinburg campus are canceled for the remainder of the day due to an AEP power line serving the campus going down in the morning. The restoration efforts continue and the cancellation applies only to the Edinburg campus. No o...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — As we wrap up another work/school week, many of us will be focused on tonight's high school football games. Our Game of the Week is in Weslaco between the Panthers and the PSJA North Raiders. We are expecting partly cloudy skies and a temperatur...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced Friday that it canceled all Edinburg campus operations, including classes, due to a power outage. According to Melissa Vasquez, the UTRGV Director of External Communications and Media Relations...
T here will be acronyms. Rio Grande Valley Linking Economic and Academic Development (RGV LEAD) are teaming up with the Rio Grande Valley Builders Association (RGVBA) with a memorandum of agreement to establish the RGV LEAD Architecture and Construction Workforce Pipeline Initiat...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — ValleyCentral is partnering with school districts across the Rio Grande Valley to bring live high school football games to our viewers at the click of a button. ValleyCentral is the only news station in the region to bring you live broadcasts fr...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Rio Hondo community gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the newly renovated Bobcat Stadium. The Rio Hondo Independent School District broke ground on the $6 million sports complex renovation in June. "It's truly a blessing just to see th...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Week three of the high school football season featured some of the Rio Grande Valley's biggest upsets and showstopping performances. The performance from the Edinburg Vela senior quarterback and safety Caidyn Hoover landed him the honors of the...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District is continuing its efforts to connect with students who have not returned to school. The district will hold its 19th Annual Countdown to Zero Dropout Recovery Walk on Saturday, Sept. 19. The an...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — During the past decade, 17 educators in Hidalgo County admitted to inappropriate relationships with students. Just four spent any time in prison. The era of slap-on-the-wrist sentences, though, may be coming to an end. When the Texas Legislature ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Rio Grande Valley native Gina Hinojosa kicked off a homecoming campaign Tuesday morning to connect with communities about the economy, border security and public schools. Hinojosa's first stop was a constru...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Valley Sports Central has nominated three local high school football teams to claim the title of Team of the Week. In week three, the nominees are Edinburg Vela, Mission Veterans, and Weslaco East. Here are some recent highlights of our nominees....
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Gunner Stockton threw five touchdown passes, tying a school record, and No. 2 Georgia gained more momentum for its Southeastern Conference schedule by overwhelming Western Kentucky 70-20 on Saturday. Wearing all-white uniforms for the first time in team history...
Cyndi Beltran C yndi Beltran has been named the inaugural chief of staff for the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen beginning this month, a position in which she will serve as a strategic partner and representative of the center’s leadership officer. “I am gr...
Sharyland ISD Director of Safety & Security Jorge Gonzalez demonstrates putting a cellphone in a pouch and in a secure locker after it is confiscated on Wednesday, Sept. 9. 2026. (Courtesy: Sharyland ISD) A fter a full school year with the Texas cellphone ban in place in schools,...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — No. 7 Miami set a school record for yards and tied the mark for points in a game, with quarterbacks Darian Mensah and Luke Nickel each throwing three touchdown passes in a 77-7 victory over lower-division Florida A&M on Thursday night. The Hurricanes fi...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On this week’s edition of ValleyCentral Weekend Report, Anchor Alejandra Yanez breaks down all the news of the week. Starting with the biggest stories of the week, in case you missed them. A Cameron County man is being held on a $100k bond after...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — New York-based Fluidstack announced it has begun construction of a $4 billion data center campus in Cameron County. As previously reported by ValleyCentral, the facility will be built on more than 1,000 acres east of the Valley International Air...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Donna Independent School District was awarded $3.12 million by the Texas A&M Forest Service Schoolyard program to build new outdoor classrooms, increase tree canopy and add nature-based learning spaces to eight district schools. According to...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — More than seven million federal student loan borrowers could soon see changes to how they repay their loans following a recent court ruling affecting the SAVE Plan. Borrowers who enrolled in or applied for the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDINBURG — Before there was a football team on campus, before seven sellout games in 2025, and before delivering the winningest inaugural season by a first-year FCS program, there was Nicholas Peace. The junior cornerback, Texas City native, and former ...
IVAN PALACIOS | STAFF WRITER EDITOR’S NOTE: Coaches, don’t forget to send in your Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week nominations by 5 p.m. every Monday. Email valleysports@themonitor.com with complete game stats and a photo of the athlete. Week 2 of the Texas high school ...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Texas is changing how it funds special education services this school year, with the state adding about $250 million in additional funding statewide. The new model shifts away from primarily basing funding on where a student receives services and...
