The Latest Breaking News from Brownsville

Four US citizens were ambushed and taken hostage in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, after crossing into Mexico for a cosmetic surgery procedure. Four days later, two of them were found dead and two were rescued. Andrea Blanco and Joe Sommerlad report

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two of four South Carolina natives kidnapped in Mexico were being treated in a Brownsville, Texas, hospital Tuesday, while State Department officials worked to have the remains of the two who were killed returned, officials say.

DALLAS — Public safety concerns have spiked around travel to Mexico, with the kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros. The visitors had just crossed the border through Brownsville, Texas.

US citizens ambushed and taken hostage in border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, after crossing into country from Brownsville, Texas, for cosmetic surgery procedure

A company planning to build a massive liquefied natural gas export facility near Brownsville says carbon capture technology will reduce its pollution, but some locals say it’s a “Band-Aid on a bullet hole.”

The GOP took just one of three Congressional seats from Brownsville to Laredo, and short-lived incumbent Mayra Flores has been sent packing.

Democrats are spending big to stop Republicans from flipping two of the three key battleground seats that have historically gone blue.

Join us for a Texas Tribune event in Brownsville exploring what needs to happen to support Hispanic-serving institutions in our state.

García served as the president of the University of Texas at Brownsville until it merged with the University of Texas-Pan American to become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the first Mexican American woman to lead a college or university in the United States.

Ford Motor Co. officials are pledging to be good neighbors to those in rural west Tennessee who live near the automaker’s planned electric truck factory, a project expected to create thousands of jobs and change the face of the region

SpaceX plans to launch rockets near Brownsville, Texas, and send the first person to Mars from there. Seven years after breaking ground, residents say the only thing skyrocketing is housing prices.