After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of...

Red Cross workers stopped treating gunshot victims for several hours in a violent city across the border from Texas after receiving death threats over their radio...

The NCAA put New Mexico’s football program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two...

A look at Wednesday’s sale of federal offshore petroleum leases in the western Gulf of Mexico:

The NCAA put New Mexico’s football program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two...

The NCAA has penalized the University of New Mexico with three years of probation for academic fraud within the football program.

Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn’t going anywhere after all.

Energy companies have placed $487.3 million in winning bids for the right to drill in the western Gulf of Mexico, knowing that they may get a chance later to also...

Mexico is investing 163 million pesos (US$16 million) to save a highly endangered type of porpoise from fishing nets in the upper Gulf of California.

Construction on “virtual fence” projects scheduled along Arizona’s border with Mexico is on hold indefinitely because the Interior Department...

Dozens of energy companies bid Tuesday to explore nearly two million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas, but no offers were made for 90 percent...

School officials in San Luis, Ariz., are investigating a busing mix-up that ended with a 6-year-old boy wandering alone in Mexico.

Miniskirts are making some Mexicans ruddy with indignation.

Mexican officials say soldiers have rescued 25 Central Americans kidnapped in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Mexican officials say soldiers have rescued 25 Central Americans kidnapped by smugglers in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday, hovering near $113 a barrel after the dollar weakened and Tropical Storm Fay missed offshore oil and gas installations in the Gulf of...

Oil prices briefly dropped below $112 a barrel Tuesday, extending the previous session’s decline as Tropical Storm Fay avoided oil-producing infrastructure in the...

Oil prices dropped below $112 a barrel Tuesday in Asia, extending an overnight decline as Tropical Storm Fay avoided oil-producing infrastructure in the Gulf of...

Oil prices fell to near $112 a barrel Tuesday in Asia, extending an overnight decline as Tropical Storm Fay avoided oil-producing infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico.

Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak...