The Republic of the Rio Grande Explained for Non-Texans. Posted: June 18, 2025 | Last updated: June 18, 2025. In the early days after the Mexican revolution, something uniquely Texan happened in ...

In December 1836 the Texas Congress, heady from victory against Mexico, claimed the republic’s boundaries included “the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to ...

On Monday afternoon, as a group of migrants attempted to cross the Rio Grande, a group of suspected Mexican cartel members fired shots at U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Upon the Mexican government’s refusal, Polk sent a group of 80 soldiers across the disputed territory to the Rio Grande. Mexico took this as an attack on their sovereignty and repelled the U.S ...

Welcome to where the streets are immortalized in song and paved with history. Begin your adventure with the Historic Laredo Walking Tour. Step into 268 years of rich history.

TERLINGUA, Texas — Paddling the Rio Grande River offers a unique adventure in the southwestern United States, but it is a wilderness trip for experienced and well-prepared paddlers.

Developers began clearing the land in the early 1900s, and Dale's own father bulldozed some of the last coastal tracts in the 1950s.Today, less than 10 percent of the forest that formerly ...

Q: Two friends at my weekly 42 dominoes game are from the Rio Grande Valley. When I asked them why Texans call a flat floodplain a “valley,” when a valley is actually the low spot between ...