Attention, all drug runners. Your days of using caltrops to avoid apprehension are over -- at least in Texas.
Four Humvees carrying 33 Mexican soldiers crossed the border into the United States, and officials on both sides say it was a harmless mistake.
Authorities investigate the shooting of an American missionary in Mexico. KRGV reports.
Mexican troops have killed 11 suspected members of the Zetas drug cartel in a shootout near the Texas border, state media reported.
The lead Mexican investigator in the Falcon Lake case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, has been killed, his severed head delivered Tuesday in a suitcase to the Mexican military, officials told CNN.
Authorities in the Tamaulipas state attorney general's office gave conflicting information Monday over whether authorities are pursuing a pair of suspects in the case of a U.S. citizen who disappeared during a sightseeing trip on the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas.
Eulalia Garcia Maturey has outlived two husbands, her two children and decades of bygone immigration laws. At 101, Maturey will become a U.S. citizen on the 101st anniversary of her crossing into the United States from Mexico.
A massive manhunt is under way in northern Mexico as authorities search for 85 inmates who escaped from a prison in the border city of Reynosa, state media reported.
A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday.
Two international bridges between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, were closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
U.S. border patrol agents Friday found a crude tunnel, apparently used for smuggling, underneath the concrete-lined Rio Grande River near El Paso, Texas.
I spent the Christmas holidays in two very similar nations, with two radically different histories.
It's an all-too common scene on patrol with a joint Mexican law enforcement task force in Juarez, Mexico.
The case of the New Mexico hotelier who required Latino employees to adopt English names and avoid speaking Spanish at work reminds us of the need for balance as we grapple with cultural evolution in America.
The mayor of a small town in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico was found shot dead Tuesday, apparently among the latest victims in the fight against organized crime in the region.
The nation is becoming even more diverse: More than one third of its population belongs to a minority group, and Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment.
Federal officials postponed poisoning a mile-long stretch of the Rio Grande's banks this week after residents complained that doing so posed health and environmental risks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
On a bright Big Bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences. The sky above opens up its cobalt tent; the space beneath stretches as far as an ocean.
Weather update
updated: Sun Oct 12 2008 23:22:00
CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf has an update on Hurricane Norbert and the weather around the U.S.
One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent. Blame Hurricane Ike
Authorities were searching parts of Texas and Mexico for a missing plane that was carrying four people, including three members of an international commission, state and federal officials said Tuesday.
Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas at dawn
CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers says to expect heavy flooding in southern Texas as Hurricane Dolly loses power.
Hurricane Dolly weakened to a tropical storm Wednesday night after it made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, leaving a trail of battered buildings and flooding.
Hurricane Dolly strengthened early Wednesday as its leading edge lashed the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border
A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border drew swift criticism from environmentalists
For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death
HBO is betting that Mexican soap fans will go for a gritty, and expensive, drama about women in prison
The Department of Homeland Security will bypass environmental and land-management laws to build hundreds of miles of border fence between the United States and Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.
The Bush administration plans to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of 2008
Helicopters were bringing 2,000 Mexican troops into the U.S.-Mexican border city of Juarez on Friday to quell a wave of drug-related violence blamed for 200 deaths since January, the city's mayor said.
Police in Mexico clash with suspected drug smugglers.
The Mexican government has ordered 2,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a wave of drug-related violence that is blamed for 200 deaths since January, officials announced Thursday.
A wave of shocking attacks and threats against emo youth culture has less to do with music than with the country's violent intolerance
Border showdownupdated: Fri Jan 18 2008 14:26:00
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff talks with CNN's Jeanne Meserve about the showdown over the border fence along Mexico.
Eloisa Tamez said she isn't scared anymore, just determined. "I am not backing down," she said.
We floated over the Rio Grande and skirted the tops of green cottonwood trees with the Sandia Mountains in the distance while school kids pointed and waved at us. We waved back.
At every national park there's a window of time that's perfect for experiencing the best of the great outdoors -- because you go to see nature, not thousands of other tourists.
In early spring a TV news report on KASA Channel 2 in Albuquerque noted that the housing market nationwide was slowing down, with mortgage rates and inventory rising and demand slackening.
A federal task force seized arsenals of illegal weapons and homemade bombs in Laredo, Texas, in connection with a Mexican drug trafficking battle, authorities said Friday.
Nine hours after making landfall as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, Emily's top winds dropped to 70 mph, just low enough to make it a tropical storm Wednesday afternoon.
U.S. officials are investigating allegations that Border Patrol officers threw rocks at several illegal immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande, forcing them to re-enter the river and leading to the drowning deaths of two women and a teenage girl.
Money Magazine: Las Cruces, New Mexicoupdated: Mon May 05 2003 11:43:00
When Lee and Donna Haeger decided in 1991 that suburban Chicago was too cold, too expensive and too fast-paced for retired life, they sought out its polar opposite. And they found it, they thought, in the tiny and newly popular retirement town of Silver City, N.M., situated less than 100 miles from the Mexican border.
The status address to drop these days is a virtual one--that's right, an electronic mailbox. About 35 million people worldwide are now busily corresponding by E-mail, up 25% from last year, accordi...
NAFTA is in the bag, the Bolsa beckons, and the best buy for many a Gringo investor looks like Telefonos de Mexico. Small wonder: A backlog of 450,000 potential customers for phone service south of...
A Mexican housing shortage has gringo homebuilders looking to spackle stucco south of the Rio Grande. It could be the hottest market around. Columbia, Maryland, builder Ryland Group has set up a jo...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Nov 16 1992 00:01:00
-- JAMES M. MYERS, 38, who runs his own investment firm in Charlotte, North Carolina: ''Mexico has no tax on capital gains and no tax on dividends. If the U.S. doesn't get serious about capital for...
Welcome to a year of fabulous travel bargains. Business has been lackluster throughout 1991, with occupancy rates at U.S. resorts now hovering at 66%, down from 69% in 1990, and with business trave...
LET US NOW praise famous men. More than 50 years ago, FORTUNE commissioned writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans to memorialize the hardscrabble existences of Alabama tenant farmers; thou...
EMBLEMATIC of the new Mexico that is rebuilding on the ashes of the 1982 debt crisis is a bridge rising from the mud just east of Juarez and spanning the Rio Grande to El Paso. It is one of the fir...
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