Southwest Border

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says protesters were arrested on disorderly conduct charges just east of the Santa Cruz County line, where a group had gathered inside a wall construction zone.

The nearly week-long security alert restricted the movement of U.S. government employees to daylight hours due to “threat information.”

The state Court of Appeals has rejected efforts to void a measure approved by voters in 2024 on immigration.

Live cattle imports from Mexico were again halted after a more than year-long pause to protect against the New World screwworm. Now, the border is back open in Douglas.

In the Sonoran Sky Islands region, one organization is working to bring back native species. But it’s running up against a lengthening border wall.

A decision from the United Nations’ cultural preservation body, UNESCO, calls for a mission to the Sonora desert nature reserve to assess the impacts of the border wall.

The investment goes toward modernizing the around 55 mile long stretch between the Lukeville-Sonoyta border crossing into Arizona and Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point.

Mexico’s environmental protection agency is cleaning up more than 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid that spilled when a tractor trailer overturned on a highway not far from the Arizona border.

Sonora’s cattle ranchers’ union says the border will reopen to live cattle after a “technical problem” is resolved.

An ongoing dispute between Border Patrol and the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona continues to escalate.