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A West Texas sheriff reports a rise in migrant activity, a park in Eagle Pass reopens, and the DPS director gives an update ...

Mexican national Guillermo Hernandez-Gonzalez sentenced to 5 years in U.S. federal prison for alien smuggling after a ...

Local wildlife rehabilitator Donnie Kamp releases a bald eagle, rescued from a fishing line injury, back into the wild near ...

A member of the National Guard directs a vehicle at the gate to Shelby Park along the Rio Grande, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, ...

A bald eagle is recovering at the Houston SPCA's Wildlife Center of Texas after a near-deadly encounter with discarded fishing gear. The bird, about four years old, was spotted tangled in fishing ...

As crowds gathered for snow and Closing Weekend celebrations in Vail, another gathering of Eagle County locals was taking ...

The barriers drew searing criticism from Texas immigrant rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers. Mexican officials say they caused two people to drown in 2023.

Ezra, who was designated to serve on the U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said “there may have been considerations of a ...

County commissioners and Bryan, College Station and Texas A&M staff agreed to file a formal protest with the State Office of Administrative Hearings and a lawsuit in state district court in ...