Zapata County

Two county judges in the Rio Grande Valley issued declarations of disaster this week in response to the increasingly severe water shortage and ongoing drought in the region.

The South Texas border is facing power outages and major economic losses from the winter storm, but community organizations are stepping up to offer support amid their own struggles. Check the end of the story for a list of local aid.

For the first time in a century, Zapata County, a 94% Hispanic border county, backed a Republican with roughly 52% of voters casting their ballots for Donald Trump. But local voters and experts say state Democrats' troubles had been brewing for a while.

Customs and Border Protection announced a $289,500,000 contract for 17 more miles of border wall construction in the Laredo area on Monday.It was awarded…

The Trump administration has been taking landowners in Webb and Zapata counties to court to survey their land for border wall construction. But some are…

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped the Trump administration’s push for a border wall in South Texas. But it also didn’t stop residents of Webb and…