Gary Long

The Brownsville Independent School District and its roughly 33,000 students are heading back to classes on Monday with a new sense of optimism now that Timothy Cuff is the district’s new superintendent.

The Brownsville chapter of the Texas Exes welcomed new Cameron County-area Longhorns to the University of Texas at Austin during a sendoff celebration on Thursday at the International Bank of Commerce in Brownsville.

A 12-foot rocket built in Brownsville by a team from the South Texas Astronomical Society launched Saturday morning to a height of 10,032 feet from a launchpad near College Station.

The Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District on Monday approved an employment contract naming Joseph Villarreal as the district’s new superintendent of schools.

The Brownsville Independent School District confirmed that officials at Aiken Elementary had located a weapon on school grounds on Wednesday.

The Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District earned an A accountability rating from the Texas Education Agency for the 2025-2026 school year and received the Post-secondary Readiness Distinction in results announced by TEA last week.

Faulk Middle School and the Brownsville Independent School District celebrated Faulk’s recent A rating by the Texas Education Agency with a pitada last Friday around Faulk’s Southmost neighborhood and a rally at the school.

Faulk Middle School and the Brownsville Independent School District celebrated Faulk's recent A rating by the Texas Education Agency with a pitada last Friday around Faulk's Southmost neighborhood and a rally at the school.

Four senior UPS drivers marked their retirement from the United Parcel Service last Friday in an informal ceremony at the company distribution center in Brownsville on the 119th anniversary of the company’s founding.

The Brownsville Independent School District and Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport’s Flight Academy of South Texas are getting ready to launch a CTE aviation pathway for BISD students.