Farmers say they can’t survive without guest workers. Workers say the system leaves them powerless. As immigration policy ...

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A federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump can maintain control of California's National Guard amid ongoing ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins Wednesday launched an $8.5 million sterile new world screwworm (NWS) fly ...

There are a total of 750 cases across 35 counties, most of them in West Texas, state health officials said Tuesday.

USDA announces new Texas facility to breed sterile New World screwworm flies as part of an effort to combat the flesh-eating ...

A $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm fly dispersal facility in South Texas, along with a comprehensive protection plan, ...

The Texas Department of Agriculture is on alert as the threat of screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva, looms closer to the U.S ...

As the fight to keep the flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S. intensifies, the economic impact on ranchers and the industry ...

The deadly, flesh-eating parasite has led to border closures for live cattle from Mexico over the past six months.

Launch Site One is the private ranch in the West Texas desert where Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches and tests its New Shepard spacecraft.

The United States plans to open a fly factory at Moore Air Base in Texas in order to breed millions of them in an effort to ...