In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, a boy rides a horse through Indian Hills East colonia near Alamo, Texas. Texas has more than 2,300 of these communities, known as colonias, that have sprung up ...
Olga Thomas and other residents of Hueco Tanks rely on a private company to haul water to their neighborhood. Now she can count on her hydro panels for drinking water. (Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times, ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There are concerns over how our area colonias will continue to hold up under all of the recent rainfall. Those communities are often built on low-lying farmland and lack basic ...
Maria Martnezs son Jose Martnez removes a makeshift cover for plumbing near a water tank on April 21, 2023. Without the insulation during the winter, the pipes are prone to burst in the colder ...
In 2017, Gov. Greg Abbott divested nearly $860,000 that had been used to fund the Colonias Initiative Program, which sent a resounding message to the people of Texas that our state can underserve our ...
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A congressional committee will hold the first field hearing Friday of the current Congress at the southern border, highlighting a humanitarian crisis on the U.S. side of the frontier. The Select ...
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ALAMO, Texas (AP) — While the economy in Texas has boomed over the last 20 years, along the border with Mexico about a half million people live in clusters of cinderblock dwellings, home-built shacks, ...