The counties hope to access state money to help pay for some criminal justice work, such as prosecuting drug cases and ...

Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican this month -- for the first time in 100 years. Home to some 75,000 residents across about 1,200 square miles, it has a relatively small ...

AS STARR COUNTY GOES — If you’re not yet familiar with Starr County, Texas — and we don’t expect you would be — remember the ...

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I visited the Texas border to find out why. Editor's note: This story was first published on October 6. On Election Day, Donald Trump won Starr County with more than 57% of the vote. It's the ...

He was all for it. “It’s hard,” Gonzalez said, but “we need it.” At the Starr County Fair in Texas, Republicans, right-leaning independents and Trump converts were mostly indifferent to ...

A Weslaco middle school was put on secure Thursday afternoon after allegedly receiving a threatening call from a student. At ...

Despite declining migrant encounters, Starr County, Texas, declared a disaster to access state funding through Operation Lone Star. The county previously opted out of disaster declarations as they ...

But the cutting? He was all for it. “It’s hard,” Gonzalez said, but “we need it.” We were speaking at the Starr County Fair in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, where I’d come to visit with some of Trump’s ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border have declined for months. Even so, one county along the border just declared a disaster, citing a surge in migrants. After ...