In Texas, Weighing Life With a Fence
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A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep people from crossing the Rio Grande could exacerbate flooding and skew the national boundary, a binational commission said Wednesday.
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ARLINGTON, Tex. -- A thief who broke into a Greek Orthodox bishop's car made off with quite a haul, but fencing one of the stolen items could prove difficult.
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By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 14--A lawsuit has been filed to stop three Central Texas residents from claiming that they can protect property owners from losing land to the Trans-Texas Corridor, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
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Twelve-foot-high earthen berms stretching 100 miles along the Rio Grande in South Texas were built decades ago to protect the region's irrigated farms and citrus groves from floods. But now a four-county region known as the Valley, with a growing population of 1.3 million, risks flooding again because of levee erosion.
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A ragged fence and a canyon called Smugglers Gulch mark the westernmost stretch of the California-Mexico border, a favorite crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug runners.
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HUNTERS may soon be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet. It&#39;s a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.
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Texas has surpassed California as the country's top wind-energy producer, but the new technology is clashing with old ranching ways
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ALTAR VALLEY, Ariz  - U.S. Border Patrol agent Galen Huffman leans over the saddle to look at faint tracks in a cattle trail leading up from the Mexico border.
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By R.A. Dyer, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun.
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Bulldozers are rolling again on the U.S.-Mexico border, moving hundreds of tons of dirt to make way for a 16-foot steel fence in an area that once was the most popular crossing for illegal immigrants.
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Building a fence in an attempt to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.
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The border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico is a blurry one, no matter what barriers may be going up to keep people from illegally crossing it.
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A decade after Texas tripled its prison  capacity, the state is once again facing a shortage of space in  its penal system as the number of inmates continues to grow.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.