Fort Hancock News

Texas wildlife officials say there are six alligators living in the Rio Grande, east of Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County.

Texas wildlife officials say there are six alligators living in the Rio Grande, east of Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County.

U.S. Border Patrol agents confiscated four large backpacks totaling 225 pounds of marijuana in Fort Hancock Thursday.

These four bags of marijuana were confiscated by U.S. Border Patrol agents early Thursday morning.

The Lubbock Police Department was informed Saturday around 4:15 p.m. of the capture of Raymundo Garza.

El Paso is a border town in more than just name. It is where the Mexican and American cultures merge into a colourful mixture of language, culture and food.

West Texas cotton growers scratched their heads last summer as a 'perfect storm' phenomena enveloped fields threatening every boll on the plants.

UTEP returned home Sunday, went through a short practice Monday afternoon in the Don Haskins Center and then hit the road again Monday evening.

Gale Carr and his neighbors farm thousands of acres of cotton and chile peppers on America's fortified frontier, across a trickling Rio Grande from what's been called Mexico's Valley of the Beheaded.

An 18-wheeler was stopped near Fort Hancock after leading authorities on a more than 35-mile chase Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Two municipal police officers from the small Mexican town of Guadalupe -- which is across the Rio Grande from Fort Hancock -- were taken to Thomason Hospital on Monday with gunshot wounds, officials said.

A federal investigation has found that the National Park Service's long-term lease for 36 buildings with a private developer in Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook violated no laws, according to a report in the Asbury ...

After years of filings and appeals, a federal court challenge against a proposal to redevelop the historic Fort Hancock is over, an attorney involved in the case said.

Fort Hancock Christmas in the 1940s, nature walks and tours of historic Fort Hancock are among the upcoming activities scheduled at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.