Fronteras Desk News
Spanish news network Univision is hosting the debate among candidates for one of the largest congressional districts in the nation.
Sep. 25, 2012
High-ranking policy makers and business leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are meeting outside of Phoenix to discuss next steps for the binational relationship. Trade between the two countries is at record levels, but those at the conference say the relationship hasn't reached it's full potential.
Sep. 25, 2012
What once became a ghost town after dark is now pulsing of life. But some in the United States are still afraid of Ciudad Juarez.
Sep. 25, 2012
I'll never the know the reason for sure, but in more than a decade of reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, I've been able to sidestep getting into trouble.
Sep. 24, 2012
Since its inception in 1994, NADBANK has invested $1.2 billion in 155 projects on both sides of the border.
Sep. 24, 2012
The deteriorating security situation not only makes Nuevo Laredo a dangerous place to live, it also makes it close to impossible for reporters to do their job safely.
Sep. 21, 2012
The new system aims to reach out to California's six million eligible citizens who are not registered to vote.
Sep. 21, 2012
New documents recently gathered by the Fronteras Desk give some new insight into what’s now become a nearly two year-long hunt for the killers of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Sep. 21, 2012
One grassroots effort is riding on anti-Arpaio sentiment to engage voters who might otherwise not go to the polls.
Sep. 21, 2012
Once upon a time, if you were a Latino school kid known by your Latino name, you were lucky.
Sep. 21, 2012
Joe Arpaio is looking to win his sixth term as sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County in November. How does he campaign for an office he's held for nearly two decades?
Sep. 21, 2012
An oil refinery explosion in a Mexican city on the Texas border left more than two dozen workers dead and many more injured.
Sep. 20, 2012
Arizona border sheriff Larry Dever died Tuesday in an automobile accident. For more than a decade, he pressed the U.S. government to bring some order to the 84 miles of border that Cochise County shares with Mexico.
Sep. 20, 2012
The DOJ watchdog's report placed much of the blame for the botched gun walking operation on Phoenix-based personnel with ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Sep. 20, 2012
They had been threatening to do it for a while. I'd look at them, knowing smiles plastered on their faces, and shake my head.
Sep. 20, 2012
Flagstaff's Ponderosa High School is where at-risk kids are given one last chance to graduate. More and more students are successful each year.
Sep. 19, 2012
The long-awaited Inspector General report on the gunwalking scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious is expected to be issued Wednesday.
Sep. 19, 2012
The incoming mayor of a small town in Mexico disappeared two weeks ago. It turns out he was arrested on U.S. drug trafficking charges.
Sep. 19, 2012
The immediate reaction when a public official gets caught is often to deny the problem, pound the media like a piñata and proclaim innocence.
Sep. 19, 2012
The provision became effective on Tuesday, when a federal district judge lifted an injunction that had blocked that part of the law for the past two years.
Sep. 18, 2012
