PECOS, Texas — Extreme drought has diminished the flows of the Rio Grande and Pecos River, two of the most iconic waterways in Texas. The advocacy group American Rivers recently named the Lower ...

when contamination from a closed mine leeched into the Pecos River, killing fish several miles from the spill, tainting water supplies and costing millions of dollars to clean up. Ralph Vigil ...

These days the Pecos River barely fills its dry, sandy bed where it crosses West Texas, but the river could be poised to flow again — with treated oil field wastewater. Companies are racing to ...

A Los Lunas woman’s drowning Sunday in the Pecos River was a tragic accident during a weekend visit to the mountains, her husband said. Sherry Lee Sullivan, 74, fell into the river Sunday ...

"We set out large mesh, multifilament gill nets in the river, targeting alligator gar," Wright said about her first day fishing with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) collaborators on ...

The event sees hundreds of volunteers spend hours collecting rubbish from the banks of the Pecos River, an important waterway of 926 miles that originates in north central New Mexico, submerging ...

It has long been a mystery how, exactly, the Devils River got its name—and what ... more than 350 prehistoric art sites in the Lower Pecos area dating back some four thousand years and are ...

HORSE HEAD CROSSING — As state historical sites go, few can rival this remote muddy ford on the Pecos River for rank obscurity. Until recently, only a bullet-pocked, vandalized state historical ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There is a battle bubbling over on the banks of the beautiful Pecos River. This fall, investigators found a homemade PVC pipe fence with barbed wire interwoven throughout.