Nogales News

The U.S. State Department increased this week the preexisting travel warning for U.S.-Americans visiting Mexico.

The cost of fuel to move goods across Mexico for distribution in the U.S. has been a driving factor as it costs less to get those imports to Texas and then distributed nationwide than it does to ship to Arizona or California.

NOGALES, Ariz. - A man has been shot in the downtown Nogales area. The Nogales International reports that police and paramedics arrived at an apartment complex Tuesday night and found a man sitting on a stoop with a gunshot wound.

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has admitted in federal court that she illegally leaked classified documents and other sensitive information to relatives involved with drug trafficking organizations in Mexico.

The U.S. Attorney for Arizona says a Nogales-based federal agent has entered a guilty plea to obstruction of justice and other federal violations.

So unless you get cremated, those who have not bought plots already at Nogales City Cemetery will have to look elsewhere for a final resting place.

In this Oct. 30, 2011, file photo Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, tours the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agent Steve Venditouli in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz.

Amid reports some Mexican tomatoes destined for U.S. markets are being returned to shippers because of glutted markets, Nogales, Ariz.-based grower-shippers who have found homes for all of their Mexican-grown fruit are counting themselves lucky.

Where was the public outcry for justice when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry bled to death at the hands of a drug cartel in cahoots with the U.S. government? It happened in the Peck Canyon corridor northwest of Nogales, Arizona -- nowhere.

NOGALES, Ariz. -- The Border Patrol says an Arizona agent working along a Nogales border fence fired at rock throwers while breaking up a drug-smuggling attempt, and one of them might have been wounded.

NOGALES, Ariz. - The Border Patrol says an Arizona agent working along a Nogales border fence fired at rock throwers while breaking up a drug-smuggling attempt, and one of them might have been wounded.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that security efforts will rely heavily on risk management and information sharing with trade partners to secure the movement of goods and people.

During the last week of January 2012, in Tucson, AZ, local and federal investigators arrested 14 suspected members of a drug-trafficking organization.

Authorities say they've arrested 14 members of a large-scale drug-trafficking ring accused of smuggling cocaine and marijuana through Nogales.

In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 photo, machinery digs away at a hillside approximately three miles west of Nogales, Ariz., as part of a project to build a 0.7-mile border access road using military engineers.

Nogales won his first election as sheriff in 1992. He says he's seeking another term because he feels his law enforcement experience is an asset to the county and because he still has goals to reach.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they've seized nearly eight pounds of methamphetamine valued at about $124,000. Officers working at the Dennis DeConcini Port referred a 29-year-old Mexican man for a secondary inspection of his sedan Wednesday when he attempted to enter the United States in Nogales, Ariz.

A Border Patrol vehicle keeps watch beside the fence that divides the United States from Mexico in the town of Nogales, Ariz., April 22, 2010.