CLEMSON — U.S. Rep. Sheri Biggs is seeking answers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about ongoing concerns surrounding the Clemson Lower Diversion Dam Saddle Dike at Lake Hartwell. Biggs, a Republican representing South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District, sent a letter…
Work on part of the system has already started. Reach A construction was underway in 2025. The project's price tag has grown substantially since Congress first authorized $886.7 million for it in 2007. Lawmakers reauthorized the project at roughly $10.27 billion in 2014. Disbarred New…
NEWLAND — The Newland Board of Aldermen convened for a public hearing Oct. 20 to discuss Town Manager David Epley’s decision denying Avery County approval for a property owner’s existing retaining wall. The new wall stands approximately six feet tall and is…
A newly-launched nonprofit group is calling on state and federal leaders to create a $2 billion border security fund for the Big Bend region as an alternative to the Trump administration's border wall plans. “The premise is that all of us…
Big Bend Sentinel MARFA — A newly formed advocacy group, Let Texans Do Texas (LTDT), is pushing state and federal lawmakers to abandon plans for physical border wall construction across the Big Bend region, proposing instead a locally administered border security…
Cardone disagreed with the government on both counts. Congress narrowed courts’ jurisdiction in border-barrier disputes, but left room for courts to consider constitutional challenges to DHS’s conduct, she concluded. The challenge to Mullin’s waiver of environmental laws raises a constitutional…
EAGLE PASS, Texas — In this Texas border city where international trade is the lifeblood of the local economy, a proposed commercial border crossing has mushroomed into a fierce debate. Developers and supporters of the Puerto Verde Global Trade Bridge envision…
In Big Bend, a nationally divisive symbol has forged an unlikely alliance among Republicans, Democrats and nearly everyone in between. This story is part of: This story is part of The Depolarization Project, a series about people defying division with…
On a late September evening in Nogales, Sam Saunders walked into a community meeting carrying a handful of papers. It was a letter from the federal government, alerting Saunders about a new border wall project near his house. “I’m just…
But in Texas' Big Bend region, the administration has run up against intense opposition from landowners, many of whom are unwilling to cede parts of their property for what they see as a waste of taxpayer dollars. That resistance is…
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