Melissa Trevino

Direct descendants of the Santa Cruz’s founding families worked closely with the Duval and Texas Historical Commissions to unveil a historical marker at the Santa Cruz cemetery on Saturday, March 23.

Covid-19 pandemic devastated the small counties of Jim Wells and Duval Counites. Now families and the City of Alice have a memorial bench downtown to remind them of each individual taken too soon.

Descendants of the Santa Cruz village founding families unveiled a historical marker at the family cemetery. Mirta Saenz Martinez and her cousin, Homero Vera, worked with the Duval and Texas Historical Commissions to bestow the cemetery with the honor.

The Code Enforcement Department is seeking a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to use in Project C.L.E.A.R.

The summer heat is on the way and people, for the most part, will be enjoying the outdoors. But so will snakes. The biggest piece of advice KRIS 6 News received was simple - just don't mess with them!

San Diego ISD is proposing a $5.5 million bond for safety and repairs. The bond will go before the San Diego taxpayers on May 4th. There are three propositions on the bond to expand the welding shop, replace lighting in some of the athletic fields, and to build a multi-use facility.

Food trucks have become the go-to in the current economic state of Alice.

Texas Rural Student Transportation officials said there’s a shortage state-wide of those essential workers.

Beginning the evening of Friday, April 12, some highways near the Harbor Bridge Project will closed, forcing drivers to find other ways around.

TxDOT and the City of San Diego are partnering for a multi-million dollar project to rebuild the South Tovar Street Bridge. The project is expected to start in August. The bridge is one of the city's earliest bridges and was last maintained in the 1960s.