The Valley, as locals call it, consists of four Texas counties bordering the Rio Grande River along its last 100 miles from Rio Grande City to the river’s mouth near Brownsville.

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.

The state first began putting buoys in the Rio Grande in 2023 to make it more difficult for people to cross the river from Mexico into Texas. A court ordered the Governor to remove them, but an ...

Images taken on Wednesday, July 16, show the riverbanks at the Rio Grande still well below major flood levels. The river did not reach the projected crest of 8 feet. Right now, the water level is ...

Groundwater springs and tributaries are feeding less water into the river. Flows have decreased on the Rio Grande by more than 30% in recent decades.