Fernando Del Valle

HARLINGEN - The city is planning to revamp its lighting as it works to clear up the night sky.

A developer is planning a data center campus spanning hundreds of acres between Harlingen and Rio Hondo, calling on city commissioners here to enter into an agreement allowing the site’s runoff to discharge into a major canal draining Valley International Airport.

While passing a new $20 million general fund budget’s coming with a $20.9 million fund balance, the new San Benito city commission voted against a proposed 1-cent property tax cut.

A developer’s town hall meeting might decide if the city opens a major drainage canal to an incoming data center spanning across hundreds of acres between Harlingen and Rio Hondo.

After working nearly two years to rebuild the district’s financial standing, Harlingen CISD Superintendent Veronica Kortan is entering a contract running to 2029, paying a $260,100 salary, up from $255,000.

The city’s biggest battery storage plant is ready to power up the grid. After about three years of planning, East Point Energy, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based company, is operating the plant made up of rows of long tanks storing lithium-ion batteries across a six-acre site off Grimes Street and Loop 499, south of Valley International Airport.

HARLINGEN - The city's biggest battery storage plant is ready to power up the grid.

Taxes are going up in Harlingen. For the first time in years, the school district’s property tax rate’s climbing.

A developer is launching the $4 billion first phase of a project aimed at building a 1,100-acre data center east of Valley International Airport between Harlingen and Rio Hondo.

HARLINGEN - A developer is launching the $4 billion first phase of a project aimed at building a 1,100-acre data center east of Valley International Airport between Harlingen and Rio Hondo.