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A new project will extend the Historic Battlefield Trail from Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsville, Texas north to Los Fresnos.

A University of Texas at Austin student from Dallas doesn’t have to worry about paying tuition anymore, after a whirlwind night at a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

An appeals court has granted a stay of execution for a Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than 20 years ago as part of an attempt to steal more than $600,000 she had hidden in her home.

SpaceX has extended its buyout offer deadline to Boca Chica Village homeowners in South Texas and agreed to reappraise the properties after complaints that the original appraisals were too low.

Migrants wanting to request asylum camped out on a U.S.-Mexico border bridge Thursday, leading to a half-day closure of a span linking the Mexican city of Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas. Hundreds of migrants from Central America and elsewhere stretched out on the bridge before dawn, with some lying on mats or their coats. The crowd included children and babies. U.S....

Migrants who want to request asylum have camped out on the international bridge leading into Brownsville, Texas, causing a closure of the span.

Ever been to Port Arthur? Were you miserable? The city surrounded by oil refineries ranked second on a list of the most miserable cities in America, according to a new report.

The operations of the Port Isabel Lighthouse officially changed hands this month with the Texas Historical Commission now taking the reins from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been charged with using homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and making them panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week.

The Trump administration is ready to open a tent court on the border to help handle tens of thousands of cases of asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico, with hearings held entirely by videoconference. The court, or “soft-sided” facility as U.S. officials call it, is scheduled to begin operations Monday in Laredo, Texas. Another is expected to open soon...

Eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and experiencing contractions, a Salvadoran woman who had crossed the Rio Grande and was apprehended by the Border Patrol was forced to go back to Mexico. Agents took her to the hospital, where doctors gave her medication to stop the contractions. And then, according to the woman and her lawyer, she was almost immediately sent back to Mexico....

At the very eastern end of the U.S.-Mexico border there’s a long strip of sand where the Rio Grande meets the sea. It is called Playa Bagdad — or ‘Bagdad Beach.’

Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill.

The Cameroonian men who share 10 mattresses on the floor of a third-floor apartment above a barber shop walk every morning to the busiest U.S. border crossing with Mexico, hoping against all odds that it will be their lucky day to claim asylum in the United States.

Every Aug. 7, Americans recognize veterans that have been awarded the Purple Heart, the oldest honor in the U.S. military.

The United States government has sent about 900 mostly Central American and Cuban migrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial “remain in Mexico” program to the easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, Mexican authorities say. They are among nearly 3,000 people with pending U.S. immigration proceedings who have been sent back to...

Shots rang out at a Brooklyn community festival on Saturday evening, killing one person and wounding 11 others, officials said.

A popular community festival was coming to a close when gunfire erupted in a Brooklyn neighborhood, leaving one man dead, another person in critical condition and 10 others wounded, authorities said Sunday as they searched for two shooters they believe were involved.

Jon Breeden will be the first to admit he’s more passionate about preserving pieces of history than his wallet will sometimes allow and his next project is a Hurricane Harvey-damaged historic house in South Texas

Eight North Texas teenagers who went to the Texas border with Mexico to conduct interviews about immigration and witness the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The teenagers are now performing the resulting play, “Crossing the Line,” through August 4 at Trinity River Arts Center in Dallas.