I backpacked and dayhiked segments of New Mexico’s potential new thru hike: the Rio Grande Trail. Here’s what it was like.

Driving north of Taos and Tres Piedras, New Mexico, and headed toward the Colorado line, I’d seen the sign for Rio Grande del ...

The state of Texas on Friday began deploying a marine floating barrier on the Rio Grande River in an attempt to deter migrant crossings along the US-Mexico border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.

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Law enforcement officers in Texas have recovered the bodies of four drowned migrants, including an infant, from the Rio Grande River along the US-Mexico border since Saturday, an official said.

Migrants are risking their possessions, money and lives to cross the Rio Grande into the US -- often accompanied by their families and children. Abraham Pineda Jacome/EPA-EFE/Sh As Texas drafts ...

Traverse the Rio Grande through a desert teeming with wildlife and abundant flora. Beginning in the rocky mountains of Colorado and ending in a sandy trickle at the Gulf of Mexico, we pick up this ...

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers ride past buoys while patrolling the Rio Grande river along the international boundary of the United States and Mexico near Eagle Pass, Texas ...