The fact that so many forestry staff in New Mexico speak Spanish has made it possible for professionals from Latin America and Spain to learn about controlled burns there.

A program known as Operation Streamline involves mass hearings for illegal border crossers, but the Ninth Circuit ruled that judges must question defendants individually before accepting their guilty pleas.

A Latino neighborhood in San Diego that is nestled up against the shipyards in San Diego bay has its first community development plan in 30 years. Residents and environmental activists want to clean up the neighborhood, but don’t want to lose the jobs that the shipyards and heavy industry provide.

Teachers protesting a proposed education reform bill in Mexico shut down the commercial border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego for 90 minutes.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has long had a fraught relationship with Latinos, and it has come to head again after reports that a women’s group rejected the agency’s attempt at outreach.

As Colorado evacuees return home after the flood, water managers along rivers downstream are watching reservoirs rise.

With heavy rainfall still drenching parts of the Southwest, health officials are warning that mosquito populations could increase, and more mosquitoes could mean more West Nile Virus.

While the Southwest is fixated on the devastating floods in Colorado and New Mexico, the death toll and damage from flooding in Mexico far surpasses our domestic problems.

In the final installment of our series, Border To Border Drugs, we look at the new consumers of heroin in the Pacific Northwest.