At 300,000 acres, this is not only the largest state park in Texas, but also among the least-visited, despite being right ...

Books & the Arts / Richard Parker’s love letter to El Paso, The Crossing, argues that the Texas city can illustrate the best ...

Big Bend National Park has two entrances—Persimmon Gap on the north side, which is accessible via U.S. Highway 385 from the quaint old railroad town of Marathon, or the Maverick entrance from ...

The Rio Grande in a section of the Temple Canyon route, outside Big Bend National Park in Texas, in March. The river’s depleting water has made finding sections deep enough to paddle ...

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Big Bend National Park explains why portions of the Rio Grande River are low By Priscilla Aguirre, Senior Trending Reporter Updated April 23, 2022 8:02 a.m.

Texas took control of a park on the Rio Grande River, officials said this week. The Department of Justice accused the Texas National Guard of blocking Border Patrol agents from accessing a 2.5 ...

A worker walks by buoys that were placed in the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, July 13, 2023. The state of Texas Wednesday seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, a well known staging ...

The Rio Grande’s disappearing wetlands were part of a national trend. A 1990 report to Congress found that by the 1980s only 104 million acres of wetlands remained in the lower 48 states.

Texas National Guard members and DPS officers take positions along the Rio Grande in El Paso to help patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico December 2022.

The wire barrier — placed along the Rio Grande in layers near Sunland Park, N.M. — is an attempt to curb a dramatic increase in migrants crossing into Texas, says Gov. Greg Abbott.