Brownsville

The city of Brownsville signed a disaster declaration after nearly 15,000 migrants crossed through the area, with many of them screened and released from federal custody and into the city.

About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence.

A letter with an apology U.S. officials said appeared to come from the Gulf cartel claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of four Americans. Messages from cartels aren’t unprecedented, the apology is unusual according to former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder.

Though messages from cartels aren’t unprecedented, the apology is unusual according to former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder.

Nearly 18 pounds of methamphetamine was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Indios International Bridge in Brownsville last week.

Humanity’s greatest adventure ever may launch from Texas. At the southernmost tip of the state, Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, is building and testing giant rockets. The hope is to send them to Mars someday to colonize the red planet.

Humanity’s greatest adventure ever may launch from Texas. At the southernmost tip of the state, Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, is building and testing giant rockets. The hope is to send them to Mars someday to colonize the red planet.

NBC 5 launches the ‘SpaceX Effect’ Monday on NBC 5 News at 10 p.m.