Luis Ochoa, whose arrest by ICE agents in Alamo was caught on video, says his mother was detained Monday after she spoke out online. An advocate says she has already been deported.

Rep. Henry Cuellar is seeking answers after an environmental advocate found that border wall panels installed at Santa Ana refuge carry 2020 fabrication dates, pointing to old funds Congress originall...

A Brownsville native seeking to unseat Greg Abbott returns to the Valley this week, where a local organizer says voters have yet to connect rising electricity bills to the governor's race.

SpaceX told Brownsville that funding would be off the table unless they voted Saturday. After six hours, they unanimously approved the disannexation of 444 acres that the company is purchasing from a ...

Port of Brownsville tempers claims about the proposed oil refinery's environmental safety, while a new study warns Trump’s National Defense Area could cause severe flooding on the Rio Grande.

As the Republican party fractures over soaring gas prices, Trump asserts “energy dominance” with an oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley.

Living in Trump's Deportation America right now feels like "pure trauma" says a DACA recipient in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

A group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.”

How a SNAP delay ripples through one South Texas household

Voters across the U.S. are casting ballots in key state and local races today, including in the Rio Grande Valley.

Trinidad Gonzales, who co-founded the history project Refusing to Forget, said the murders happened "in response to the last colonial rebellion by ethnic Mexicans against U.S. sovereignty."

The South Texas Equality Project is leading the effort to create a dynamic blend of queer visibility and Latinx representation as a family event for all ages.

Rio Grande Valley native State Rep. Gina Hinojosa is going after Abbott's mega donor network.

Democrats, including Rep. Henry Cuellar and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, sent a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins calling for the use of emergency funds.

Mexican folk medicine is being reclaimed during a time of deep uncertainty in the U.S. political climate.

Alonzo said Republicans gained influence in South Texas “through the church,” an observation echoed by political organizers in the region.

“It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.

“It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.

Recent rockets have scattered debris on the beach in Tamaulipas.

A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.

Join me for a live discussion on Friday morning on Mexican environmental activists pushing back against SpaceX rocket launches in Tamaulipas, and listen to an interview on this story with The Texas St...

With Strykers and soldiers the Trump administration implemented its third National Defense Area in the Rio Grande Valley in June, alarming local groups.

Intensified ICE raids have turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley into a “Golden Cage,” trapping migrant families in fear and isolation.

Intensified ICE raids have turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley into a “Golden Cage,” trapping migrant families in fear and isolation.

Local environmental justice groups have been warning federal regulatory agencies about possible explosions at the Starbase facility for ten years.

Local environmental justice groups have been warning federal regulatory agencies about possible explosions at the Starbase facility for ten years.

Texas forces sheriffs to join Trump's mass deportation campaign, and Mexico's govt. wants three more dams in Sonora, but there's no water. Also border communities familiar with the MAGA rollout in LA.

A new Texas law will turn sheriffs into federal immigration enforcers. Racial profiling and rights violations are sure to follow, experts say.

“If these bills get passed, there’s nothing stopping other billionaires from creating their own company towns and owning more of Texas,” said Bekah Hinojosa, a local activist.

Original Reporting and Analysis from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Click to read The Border Chronicle, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The river is drying up, while Texas's elected leaders ignore the real border crisis.

Former IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner, a border native who led significant water infrastructure projects, was ousted last week by President Donald Trump amid ongoing U.S.-Mexico water disputes.

Arizona's San Rafael Valley and other critical wildlife corridors in the borderlands are targeted by the Trump Administration for new wall construction.

Eagle Pass resident, Garcia Grewal, talks about the reopening of Shelby Park and the impacts of Texas' new military base. And the creation of her new border-wide organization, Frontera Federation.

American Rivers said that the Rio Grande is "one of the least-funded and most overlooked major river basins in the United States."