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A hurricane and winter freeze devastated the South Texas industry. A lack of water is preventing a full recovery.
As Republican Texas leaders show support for Trumpās mass deportation plans, undocumented people ā some who have lived in America for decades ā are weighing their options amid mounting fears.
The U.S. is still separating some migrant children from parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas.
Groups are urging the stateās estimated 1.6 million undocumented migrants to prepare financially and make plans for their loved ones if theyāre detained.
Officials with the Texas General Land Office on Tuesday outlined plans for a 1,402-acre ranch it has offered to the incoming Donald Trump administration for housing undocumented immigrants before deportation.
Texas agreed to take 120,000 acre-feet of water from Mexico this month, only after the U.S. and Mexico agreed to an updated treaty.
The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 performance in the Latino-majority region.
Hinojosa won the only competitive seat in the Texas Senate this cycle, besting Sen. Morgan LaMantia two years after she narrowly defeated him.
Farmers say they want the water, but not if it goes against the allotment they need for the spring planting season.
Denton has renamed itself Halloween, Texas, and has planned 31 days of events to drive up tourism and family entertainment.
In their only debate before Election Day, Gonzalez and Flores traded jabs over the economy, immigration and abortion, and regularly spoke over each other.
Rio Grande Valley farmers' concerns about a lack of water are being addressed in a new executive order issued by state agriculture commissioner Sid Millerās office.
A 1944 water-sharing treaty between the United States and Mexico is back in the spotlight and Rio Grande Valley farms are hanging in the balance.
The South Texas city is the latest to grapple with aging water infrastructure, which officials suggested could have been the cause for the E. coli outbreak.
One group estimated more than 568,000 cats and dogs entered shelters in 2023. About 82,000 cats and dogs were euthanized.
Reporters from both organizations spent a day documenting the reality on the border. Hereās a summary of what they found.
The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press visited five locations along the 1,254-mile span to separate the facts from the political narrative during a heated election year.
Inspired by the work of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the biennial ācumbreā helps South Texans organize for political change.
The first-term Republican defending her seat said a private school voucher program will help her community, especially students from low-income families.
The request came from a local pastor who is part of a group that trains people to ādefend their freedom and liberty.ā Other faith leaders have pushed back.
This weekās ruling was the latest twist since cities and groups in Texasā Rio Grande Valley sued to block the projects.
After Texas deployed the barrier, a panel ordered it removed. The full appeals court says it can stay while a lower court hears a case on the merits.
Local leaders began debating a household limit on the number of pets after two residents were arrested for having 93 dogs and a cat in their home.
Deliaās Tamales locations in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley were the focus of FBI raids earlier this week.
Many of the solutions are costly, putting them out of reach for small towns. But the region's most populous cities are getting innovative.
A woman who was one of four people attacked by a shark off South Padre Island on Independence Day shared what she experienced the moments before she was attacked.
After years of competing with each other for new businesses, Valley cities want to present a united front to highlight the regionās assets.
Cascos began his political career as a Democrat but later flipped to the Republican Party.
The region's two major reservoirs are at record-low levels and agriculture leaders are worried the citrus industry could be devastated this summer.
San Antonio chefs may have been left out of the winners list for the 2024 James Beard Awards, but the Lone Star State was represented by a Rio Grande Valley woman who won Best Chef: Texas.
Ground Game Texas, a group that has pushed for progressive policies in cities across the state, is working to make it easier for McAllen residents to change local laws.
From brisket to carne asada, Texas is known for meat, making this annual gathering in a small Rio Grande Valley town stand out.
A former South Texas high school football player who tackled a referee in 2020 after being ejected from a Texas high school football game pleaded no contest to a charge of assault-causing bodily injury on Tuesday morning, according to CBS 4 News.
According to the Weather Prediction Center, La Puerta, Texas reach 116 on Thursday. After sifting through records, this may be the hottest May temperature in Texas history.
National Republicans are investing heavily in Floresā bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in South Texas.
With the hottest days still ahead, local leaders have declared emergencies. And farmers are lobbying for the U.S. government to pressure Mexico to release water.
A state-appointed board of managers overseeing the La Joya Independent School District is set to consider the policy this week.
A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics.
The Affordable Connectivity Program provides a $30 monthly subsidy to help low-income households pay for internet service. The program is slated to run out of money at the end of the month.
The Starr County district attorney dropped the improper charges, but the fallout āforever changed the Plaintiffās life,ā a new federal lawsuit says.
The South Texas Democrat said Latinos who support former President Donald Trump are voting against their self interest, but Republicans recoiled at the comparison.
The Texas Farm Bureau said the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers mill no longer had adequate water to sustain operations, an issue the bureau blames on ongoing water issues with Mexico under the 1944 Water Treaty.
Presidential visits to the border are usually short on substance and long on political theater and symbolism, starting with the choice of location.
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues.
Federal agents in Laredo stopped two human smuggling attempts this week when they found more than 30 migrants and a bag of fentanyl pills in two tractor-trailers.
A former Rio Grande Valley attorney recently pleaded guilty to extorting $1,500 from a defendantās mother after she sought him out for help, federal authorities say.
Seven people were shot on Sunday morning at a nightclub in the Rio Grande Valley, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriffās Office.
More deaths have been linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak at two clinics on the Texas-Mexico border, including a Rio Grande Valley mother who died this week after being hospitalized for months.
Searchers have found 27 corpses in clandestine graves in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, and many of them were hacked to pieces, volunteer searchers said Wednesday.
Republicans recently announced Mayra Floresā comeback effort with great fanfare, but Democrats argue that a redrawn district ā and Floresā voting record ā are hurdles the GOP canāt clear.
Five of these meteorites are now on display at the āWelcome to Earthā exhibit at the Witte Museum. You can check them out through the summer months and even touch a 4.56 billion-year-old meteorite that was discovered in Morocco back in 2000!
Police in Brownsville, Texas, are preparing to arrest the hospitalized driver of an SUV that slammed into a crowd, killing eight people waiting for a bus Sunday outside a migrant shelter in the border city.
An estimated 500,000 people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely built between the 1950s and 1980s, these communities have been promised water ā but it has never come.
The Texas Department of Public Safety seized over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl in a South Texas city Monday, according to officials.
Texas state park officials may have figured out what kind of āmystery creatureā was spotted lurking around at night in the Rio Grande Valley area.
Texas state park officials are scratching their heads, trying to identify a āmystery animalā recently spotted lurking around the Rio Grande Valley area at night.
Henry Cuellar vs. Cassy Garcia; results below beginning at 7 p.m.
Whole Womanās Health, which owned the building for nearly two decades, said they were ādupedā after the doctors who bought the building sold it to the McAllen Pregnancy Center.
The two-time Democratic presidential candidate visited Central Texas and South Texas amid concerns that young and working-class voters are not mobilized enough for the midterm election.
Six men have pleaded guilty after a search in Rio Grande Valley yielded 15 kilograms of cocaine and more than $325,000 in cash.
Before the gubernatorial debate between Greg Abbott and Beto OāRourke in the Rio Grande Valley, the parents of Robb Elementary students stepped up to the microphone to voice their opinions on one of the stateās most divisive topics: gun control.
Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, San Antonio seek advice from director of Catholic Charities RGV for migrant response.
It has been nearly six months since the trucker-blockade at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in response to Governor Greg Abbottās additional inspections. Alicia Barrera is back in the Rio Grande Valley to see what's changed since the order was lifted.
In these historically Democratic border areas, some voters are turning to the Republican party, while others remain unmoved.
A teacher in the Rio Grande Valley has been arrested a month after a 5-year-old boy died because he was left inside a vehicle on campus, according to media reports.
The Texas Education Agency has dismissed the notion that the accountability ratings are a poverty rating. As evidence, they point to districts like those in the Rio Grande Valley, which have achieved high marks while serving a high number of economically disadvantaged students.
āIf itās gonna rise by that much, I donāt think weāre prepared,ā one South Texas mayor said of temperature increases.
The governor said Tuesday he has agreed to debate OāRourke, his Democratic opponent, on Sept. 30 in the Rio Grande Valley.
If both candidates agree, Abbott and OāRourke will square off in Edinburg on Sept. 30
The national Democratic Party needs to stop taking voters in the Valley for granted and better understand their values, Texas lawmakers said during a Texas Tribune event Wednesday.
In a Texas Tribune event Tuesday, university leaders discussed why Hispanic students finish higher education programs at a lower rate than the state average but have better performance in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso.
A Mexican immigrant who worked in cotton fields to pay for school supplies, Flores is a source of hope for Republicans looking to gain ground in the Rio Grande Valley. But her staying power will be put to the test this November.
A delegation of Republican senators led by Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas will pay a visit to the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday and Friday to survey the current state of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Less than 24 hours after opening new processing facility in Eagle Pass, Border Patrol agents say its almost at capacity.
GarcĆa served as the president of the University of Texas at Brownsville until it merged with the University of Texas-Pan American to become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the first Mexican American woman to lead a college or university in the United States.
Border Patrol hosts security event Tuesday morning in the Rio Grande Valley. The event is aimed to cast a light on dangers undocumented immigrants face when entering the US.
