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 ...

THE LINE ON THE MAP BEGINS AT BOCA CHICA on the Gulf of Mexico and hugs the Rio Grande from its mouth to the Pecos River. Ten times the riverside route changes highway numbers as it passes through ...

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 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.

Along the entire course of the Rio Grande, agriculture siphons off about 75 percent of the river’s flow. This year, the runoff into the upper Rio Grande was a month earlier than normal.

The flow of the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border has been fundamentally changed by the buoys placed to deter migrants from crossing illegally, according to preliminary findings by ...