All Agua Special Utility District voters will receive a new voter registration card in the mail by the end of the  week. According to a news release from the utility district, the Hidalgo County Elections department mailed out over 19,200 voter registration certificates to registered voters in the Agua SUD region to be used in all…

Two more people in Hidalgo County have died from COVID-19 related complications Wednesday as the county reported 92 more cases of the disease. The total number of COVID-19 related fatalities in the county has now climbed to 19 people and the total number of known positive cases have risen to 1,347, the county announced in a news release. “These…

Citing a concern in the rise of new COVID-19 cases in the county, Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez signed an order requiring all Hidalgo County businesses to mandate the use of facial coverings by all employees and customers to slow the spread of COVID-19. The order goes into effect at midnight Wednesday and remain…

Two Mission women became the latest people to die after testing positive for COVID-19. The unidentified women, aged in their 40s and 70s, make it 17 total COVID-19 deaths in the county. Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez first announced the deaths in a Wednesday virtual press conference where he said the county is seeing…

A major milestone was reached last week at the DHR Health Transplant Institute. Surgeons Philip Thomas, MD and Jose Almeda, MD, successfully performed the institute’s 50th kidney transplant surgery Friday, June 12, reaching a milestone that had been anticipated by the DHR Health Transplant Institute since the program’s inception in 2016. The transplant was done to…

Three Pharr residents died Monday from COVID-19 complications, the county announced in a news release. There is now a total of 15 COVID-19 deaths in the county. The three cases, all women who were in their 40s and 80s were unrelated and all had underlying medical conditions. Both of the older women were part of…

The weekend saw 83 new COVID-19in Hidalgo County, officially pushing the number of know cases past the 1,000 mark. The total now stands at 1,050, according to a Sunday news release from the county. “This is not a moment that I like seeing,” Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said in a statement. “But it is…

The total number of known COVID-19 cases in Hidalgo County rose to 967 after the county reported 55 new cases Friday. The new cases come from the cities of Alamo, Donna, Edinburg, Hidalgo, McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Palmview, Pharr, San Juan, Weslaco and two from undisclosed cities. Their ages range from 0 to their 70s, according…