Perhaps the biggest Texas takeaway from the presidential election is that more counties went Republican this cycle — ...

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An agreement aimed at ensuring more regular water from Mexico to the United States has been reached, both governments said on Saturday, following a long period of tension over a decades-old treaty.

Brownsville police arrested two men and a woman at a Harlingen apartment complex following a Friday night shooting. At ...

The once-mighty river is barely a trickle through West Texas. Scientists say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore ...

The legal standoff continued, awaiting the results of the April 1892 ... For one thing, Otto Mears’ new railroad, the Rio ...

Hinojosa won the only competitive seat in the Texas Senate this cycle, besting Sen. Morgan LaMantia two years after she ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the fed government in the long-running water dispute, the states are back to the ...

Wylie Mountain Ranch is selling its 33,000-acre property for $27 million, offering a historic piece of West Texas ranch land.

Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team arrested a man who allegedly threatened to burn his mother’s house down. Misael ...

The extraordinary standoff is only the latest example of ... on state trespass charges and put floating barriers in the Rio Grande, measures that Abbott says are needed to counter the record ...

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