The Latest Breaking News from the Rio Grande

Some New Mexico lawmakers are warning that the state’s fight with neighboring Texas over management of one of North America’s longest rivers is still brewing despite a proposed settlement and that leaving farmland unplanted won’t be a long-term answer to ensuring Texas gets its share

LAREDO, Texas — When the Mexican-American War ended in 1848 and land on the northern side of the Rio Grande River became part of the U.S., the people of Laredo celebrated their place in a democracy by holding a referendum.

US is seeing an influx of migrants at its southern border with Mexico as pandemic-era policy came to an end this week.

Officials stress hardline approach as American Civil Liberties Union files lawsuit, saying new rules close off safe routes for people seeking asylum

As pandemic-era asylum restrictions ended early Friday, migrants in northern Mexico faced more uncertainties about a new online system for appointments to seek asylum in the U.S. Some migrants still waded apprehensively into the Rio Grande, defying officials who shouted for them to turn back, while elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico…

Families were seen trying to swim across the Rio Grande on the US' southern border in a scramble to get across into the States before Title 42 expires

Hundreds of migrants have waited on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande for days to be apprehended. Others say they want to follow the rules to enter legally — if they could just get the government phone app to work.

Pilot Renato Fernandes de Oliveira Junior, 72, and his passenger, Horacio Morales, 74, lost their lives as the plane began to sink after it crashed into the Jaguara Dam on the Rio Grande near São Paulo, Brazil, at around 2pm on April 30

A commission that oversees how the Rio Grande is managed and shared among three Western states has adopted a recommendation that could set the stage for more involvement by Native American tribes that depend on the river