President Trump has approved building a futuristic international freight corridor bridge connecting Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo León, Mexico.

While most of us have grown to appreciate the present-day Texas map ... in the area. Soon, the rest followed: 1750. Revilla (Villa del Señor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revilla) was established with over ...

Laredo has relied on the Rio Grande, which flows as a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico, for water since its founding in 1755. What centuries ago was a small Spanish outpost is now an ...

Tim Garcia, a city water quality specialist, collects a sample of water in a residential area of Laredo on March ... American city of 250,000 people. Nuevo Laredo across the river in Mexico ...

On paper, Laredo is a city of slightly more than 250,000 residents, but the whole metropolitan area includes more than 700,000 when accounting for neighboring Nuevo Laredo, across the river.

The two children who died attended Finley Elementary School in the Laredo area - one was in kindergarten, the other in first grade. United ISD is offering counseling for students and staff. Nuevo ...