The department says the floating barrier will deter people from attempting to cross the US-Mexico border through dangerous waterways.

That’s because José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara led the quest for Texas freedom. He was born and raised in Revilla, Nuevo Santander, today’s binational community of Guerrero, Tamaulipas and Zapata, ...

Since 2014, the $350 billion space-tech company has dramatically transformed this region in the deep south of Texas, known broadly as the Rio Grande Valley.

Appropriately, The Kingdom of Zapata starts with a detailed description of the Escandón era. Truly, it is a gold mine for those seeking specifics of our how Zapata came to be. Of significance is the ...

news Investigations Texas wants his Rio Grande ranch to expand U.S. 83. Rene Ramirez has beat them — for now A modern-day cowboy wrangles politicians in Austin, wins property-rights battle.

State border wall under construction at the bank of the Rio Grande in Zapata County. The Texas border wall is made up of more than two dozen noncontiguous sections scattered across six counties ...

For Texas Dems, that change in hue was no more obvious — or more concerning — than in once reliably blue counties such as Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks, Kenedy and Willacy ...

Four long years ago, much ado was made about the inroads made by then-President Donald Trump in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the four-county region of 1.4 million mostly Hispanic residents at the ...

The widening banks of the Rio Grande at Zapata, Texas, are seen on May 23, 2024. Drought, heat and Mexico’s lack of water payments are leading to low river levels. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report) PHARR ...

The case in question was a cartel-style murder. In tiny Zapata, far down the Rio Grande, a 22-year-old man had been gunned down with an assault rifle in his bedroom at his parents' home.

The case in question was a cartel-style murder. In tiny Zapata, far down the Rio Grande, a 22-year-old man had been gunned down with an assault rifle in his bedroom at his parents' home.