In Brownsville, the city and local hospital have helped residents lose more than 23,000 pounds since 2008.

Hannah Hidalgo scored 24 points and No. 6 Notre Dame defeated JuJu Watkins and third-ranked Southern California 74-61 in a marquee matchup on the West Coast.

More than 1 million migrants are living and working legally in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese helped bring women’s basketball to new heights over the past two years.

Notre Dame is gearing up to reopen its doors in December as Paris is on the verge of a remarkable eco-revival.

After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics.

The $500 fine from the Texas Ethics Commission comes after the agency found the Harris County judge broke state campaign laws barring use of government resources for political purposes.

Hidalgo’s staffers were indicted on felony charges related to how they allegedly helped award an $11 million contract to a political consulting firm headed by a Democratic strategist.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer.

Timea Gardiner scored 21, Raegan Beers added 18 points and Oregon State stymied Notre Dame star Hannah Hidalgo to beat the Irish 70-65 and advance to their first regional final in six years.

Notre Dame star freshman Hannah Hidalgo was forced to remove her nose piercing and miss time in her team’s 70-65 loss to Oregon State in the Sweet 16.

Star freshman Hannah Hidalgo had 22 points as No. 14 Notre Dame held off No. 10 North Carolina State 55-51 in Sunday’s championship game at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.

The county’s top elected official will be discharged from a mental health facility this weekend and plans to return to work on Oct. 2 after two weeks of outpatient therapy.

Hidalgo said she was diagnosed with the condition last month and aims to return to her post in September. More people across the country have been diagnosed with the condition since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A government watchdog says the federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the border alone during a surge in 2021.

A Texas county official says there are outstanding questions about the transportation and disposal of toxic wastewater that has been moved to a Houston suburb from the site of an Ohio train derailment.

GOP donors spent millions to unseat Hidalgo, a Democrat who leads the state’s most populous county, and take back a seat they lost four years ago. Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer conceded the race Wednesday morning.

Comptroller Glenn Hegar said the state could block the approval of Harris County’s budget because it’s not allowing constables to roll $3 million in unspent funds into next year’s budget — even though the constables’ total funding will go up next year.

The felony charges are misuse of official information and tampering with a government record. Hidalgo, who oversees Harris County, has the largest constituency of any elected Democratic executive in the state.

Hidalgo, the Harris County judge, says a criminal probe into a contract her office awarded is a political hit. But as a potential future statewide candidate, does the episode expose a flaw in her approach to politics?

A man in Harris County is reportedly the first person to die from the omicron COVID-19 variant in the United States.

Calls for an independent investigation into what led to 10 deaths at the Astroworld music festival have gone unheeded.

Torrential rains in central Mexico have suddenly flooded a hospital, killing 16 patients.

Other city and county governments in Texas are offering incentives to unvaccinated people to get a shot. Statewide, vaccination rates have increased modestly.

Apparently, even the most bloodthirsty drug gangs in Mexico can get tired of aimless killing.

A commando of men dressed in military-style gear and carrying rifles burst into a jail in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, and freed the local leader of the Gulf cartel.

Mexican authorities say eight more suspects have been arrested for alleged involvement in gun attacks earlier this month that killed 19 people in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa, nearly all of whom appeared to be innocent bystanders.

Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead.

Asylum seekers who turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol get onto a transport bus in Hidalgo in 2019. (Credit: REUTERS/Loren Elliott)Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Biden administration has also refused to call the situation a “crisis” but acknowledged on Wednesday that striking a balance between messaging and compassion is an uphill climb. Abbott lambasted the Biden administration’s immigration policies and said they indicate he cares less about Americans than he does foreigners. Jacobson said about 3,000 minors had previously qualified but were left out of the program after Trump ended it in 2017.

Experts say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots allow for widespread voter fraud, but Texas Republicans have long relied on that claim to justify keeping Texas’ mail-in balloting among the most restrictive systems in the country. After conducting a review, Harris County officials recently announced that the election this year was fair and secure. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo slammed Paxton for working to take essential federal dollars from the state’s largest city. “Taking emergency relief funds from the people of Harris County would have knocked the floor out of our citizens’ ability to vote safely during a pandemic and an important national election,” said Hidalgo, a Democrat. The question over expanding access to mail-in ballots was a particularly partisan flashpoint.

AUSTIN, Texas – The crush of the coronavirus surge in El Paso has the city sending its non-COVID-19 cases to hospitals elsewhere in the state, officials said Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon, Harris County sent out an emergency text alert to all 4.7 million of its residents asking them to cancel their holiday gatherings and to get tested. It’s just not the time,” said Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s top elected official. At a news conference, Hidalgo warned that the number of COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations locally is increasing. Hidalgo said that since late September, the number of average new daily cases in Harris County has increased by 250%.

Credit: Joel Angel Juarez for The Texas TribuneTexas surpassed 1 million cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to state data, eight months after the first case was recorded in the state. Texas joins California, which has 10 million more residents than Texas, as the nation’s leaders in coronavirus cases. As the coronavirus pandemic continues a late-year surge in Texas, state officials have not imposed additional restrictions to curb the virus’ spread. The Texas Tribune counts only confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, following methodology used by the Texas Department of State Health Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases surged in June and July in Texas, fueled in part by the reopening of restaurants and businesses.

The county is part of the Rio Grande Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, which remains one of the busiest areas for unauthorized crossings in the country. It waives provisions included in several federal statues, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Archeological Resources Protection Act, the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act and the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act, among others. Earlier this month landowners and government officials in Laredo and Zapata County alleged that the construction of the barrier is driven by racism and politics and is therefore unconstitutional. Although the Rio Grande Valley continues as one of the busiest sectors, the number of unauthorized crossings has plummeted this year compared to last. From October 2019 through June apprehensions of unaccompanied minors and family units in the Rio Grande Valley have dropped by 74% and 94% respectively, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics.

The 2-1 ruling was a setback to the presidents increasing reliance on the Pentagon to finance hundreds of miles of new barrier along the Mexico border. The president has tapped into Pentagon accounts for the remaining $10 billion, including the $2.5 billion transfer last year that the 9th Circuit said Friday was unlawful. In its ruling, the court said the White House lacked independent constitutional authority to authorize the transfer of funds from the military. The Supreme Court last year lifted the lower-court injunction without ruling on the legality of the administrations Pentagon transfers. It ended last January when the president dropped his funding demand for $5 billion, reaching into military accounts instead.