Migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border have declined for months. Even so, one county along the border just declared a disaster.

Farmers and elected officials told a Senate committee Monday that the lack of water is becoming dire, with little relief in ...

Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican this month -- for the first time in 100 years. Home to some 75,000 residents across about 1,200 square miles, it has a relatively small ...

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STARR COUNTY, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials were shot at while patrolling in Starr County Monday, according to CBP officials. No injuries were reported when gunshots were ...

But the cutting? He was all for it. “It’s hard,” Gonzalez said, but “we need it.” We were speaking at the Starr County Fair in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, where I’d come to visit with some of Trump’s ...

AS STARR COUNTY GOES — If you’re not yet familiar with Starr County, Texas — and we don’t expect you would be — remember the name. Since President Donald Trump’s November victory ...

I visited the Texas border to find out why. Editor's note: This story was first published on October 6. On Election Day, Donald Trump won Starr County with more than 57% of the vote. It's the ...

After declining to do so for years, Starr County commissioners signed the disaster declaration to qualify for additional state money through Texas' Operation Lone Star, according to Starr County ...

He was all for it. “It’s hard,” Gonzalez said, but “we need it.” At the Starr County Fair in Texas, Republicans, right-leaning independents and Trump converts were mostly indifferent to ...