The Rider is the award-winning student newspaper of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, distributed on campus in Brownsville and Edinburg, Texas.

Gael Espinoza serves as a Sports Reporter for The Rider. He is majoring in Mass Communication with a concentration in broadcasting and minoring in film production. He hopes to continue his work in the ...

Civil engineering freshman Shoshana Molina presents about the American Dream during NovaRhet April 17 in the University Ballroom on the Edinburg campus. NovaRhet is a composition research symposium ...

Draya Rios/THE RIDER Before joining the UTRGV Football Team in 2025, Elijah Graham, a former redshirt senior defensive back from Federal Way, Washington, had thought his connection with the sport was ...

Unofficial results for county, state and federal primary races have been released in Hidalgo County, with voters casting ballots in races, including county judge, criminal district attorney and ...

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During the Student Government Association Constitutional Amendments town hall last month, a student voiced his concern about campus inequality and accused the SGA of bias during the Intercollegiate ...

Draya Rios/THE RIDER Job growth in the Rio Grande Valley is showing early gains in 2026, with increases in hospitality and construction, reflecting broader statewide trends reported in January, ...

Students and faculty will now be able to work on radio frequency technologies research at the new STARGATE facility, which can open the doors for collaboration with SpaceX in Brownsville. Despite the ...

Always feminine care products are on display at Walmart on West University Drive in Edinburg. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDER The Intersectional Feminist Organization, the Student Government Association ...

The new men’s basketball head coach Brandon Chambers (not pictured) announced throughout April the hiring of new staff. Pictured are Mitch Marquis (from left), assistant coach; Joseph Anderson, ...

What is the main purpose of the club? “To provide students recreational badminton,” Salinas said. “It’s like a discount tennis. It’s mostly there for people to hang out, and people can drop in and ...