The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: “The End.”

Mexican police have captured a suspected drug cartel hit man in a crowded Tijuana casino after a chase through the city streets.

People have so little confidence in the police here that the army invited citizens to report crimes to soldiers instead. Officers are so mistrusted that federal authorities even took their guns away for a time last year.

Mexican soldiers captured at least 10 suspected members of a Tijuana-based drug cartel in a raid on a child’s baptism party in this border city, officials said Sunday.A total of 61 people were arrested in the sweep late Saturday, including the band...

If there’s pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it’s about $2.54 _ even less if you pay in...

An American woman was among four people found dead in the Mexican beach town of Playas de Rosarito, near border with California, officials said Monday.The 28-year-old American woman and three men were all shot in the head, assistant Baja California state...

Mexico’s military posted soldiers around a major hospital Monday to guard suspects wounded during weekend gunbattles that raged across Tijuana.Two more deaths raised the toll to 15 from the pre-dawn Saturday shootouts in the violence-plagued Mexican...

Massive gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine.All of the dead were believed to be drug...

Massive, running gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers on the streets of this violent border city Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine, law enforcement officials said.All of the dead were believed to be drug traffickers,...