Laredo News
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - It was a night to celebrate some of the most decorated athletes in the Gateway City as the Laredo Sports Association held their 3rd annual awards celebration. For more headlines, click here ....
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot dry airmass will remain in control of our weather through the 7 day forecast period. The center of the hot airmass will edge a little further south and west allowing a band of marginally moist air to move above our area by Friday. We will see cumulus c...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Webb County Sheriff’s Office is calling on the community to help identify a suspect who led deputies on an interstate vehicle pursuit before fleeing on foot on Tuesday. The incident began on August 25, 2026, at approximately 7:35 p.m. Deputies attempted ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Animal Care Services is looking for a home for Terra, a one-year-old Malinois mix. Estevan Delgado of LACS said Terra is fully grown, has received all her vaccinations, and has been sterilized. “So, she is ready. She’s just looking for her home,” Delg...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo Cultural District is hosting a screening of the documentary “Ghost in the Machine” to provide the community with information about artificial intelligence and data centers. Karen Munoz discussed the event and the documentary’s message. “There are ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - North Bartlett will have a temporary street closure for a construction project. The expansion of Clear Choice ER will require utility work on the northbound lane of North Bartlett near Sidney Sheldon Drive. The work begins Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 8 a.m. and w...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot airmass remains in control of Texas weather. The center of the dome of heat may drift a little to our west, giving us a slim chance of a shower moving south from a front into south Texas during Friday. Only a slim chance, I will be watching. We will st...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - HOUSTON, Texas — The federal trial of Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar Jr. and former assistant chief Alejandro Gutierrez has been pushed from October 2026 to February 2027 , according to a joint unopposed motion filed August 24, 2026. Attorneys for both d...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations at the Laredo Port of Entry has announced extended Saturday operational hours at the World Trade Bridge as part of a three-month pilot program designed to support the flow of legitimate trade in...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Our hot dry airmass is acting like a mountain of heat, around which weather traffic is forced to flow. As long as the mountain of heat remains in place, our weather will not change. There is a hint that it may drift a little to the west at the end of the wee...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The San Agustin Plaza will soon change, but the downtown location will not lose its historical charm. A $950,000 check was presented Monday, Aug. 24, for improvements to the historic area. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said the money was secured through ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Public Health is hosting a free community presentation on sensory rooms. The event runs from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Organizers said attendees will learn how sensory spaces can promote calming, focus and overall well-being for kids and adults...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Down South the Zapata Hawks had a 7-4 season as well as going 2-2 in their district. Realignment has added the likes of Edcouch Elsa and Alice so no more Touloso Midway and Calhoun. This team will feature youth across both sides of the ball with Ryan Solis l...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - For the first time in 15 years there is a new head coach guiding the tigers football program, and he’s one of the most decorated coaches the city has ever known with Joel Lopez taking over the reigns, with every new coach comes a time of transition though an...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - It was a learning experience last year for the badgers as they played six man football for the first time. Getting thrown to a totally different style of play and doing so without a district. Now the badgers will call district 16-1A home, where they know the...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A deep layer of hot dry air continues to block cooler airmasses from the north from reaching our area. Instead, the cooler airmasses are tracking to our north and east, and will not play a role in our weather anytime soon. temperatures will likely reach arou...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo has a new top diplomat. Charlie J. Franta III assumed duty as consul general in Nuevo Laredo this month. Before this assignment, Franta served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Port of Spain. Franta joined t...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Animal Care Services found homes for 30 animals during its “ Clear the Shelter ” event. The event offered free cat and dog adoptions. Every pet went home with its first round of vaccines. Vendors handed out free goodies during the event. Casa Reptile ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo drivers have two Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) road projects to plan around this week: an overnight closure on Bayside Boulevard and daytime lane closures on Loop 20. Bayside Boulevard closure Bayside Boulevard, the entrance to the Lakesi...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Members of the Laredo Stroke Support group meet every Tuesday at Mall del Norte for a walking club made up of more than a dozen stroke survivors who have become friends. Among them is Omar Salinas, whose life changed on June 2, 2016. Salinas, a nurse, collap...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The City of Laredo said that full laboratory results from its recent taste-and-odor investigation are now available, confirming the cause of an earthy or musty taste and smell in the water supply. The city collected samples from raw Rio Grande water entering...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - In a week that couldn’t have been scripted any better Sergio “Javi” Martinez he not only adds State Champion to his resume but this weeks Charlie Clark Hyundai Player Of The Week Award winner. Martinez claimed the top spot in the South Heavy Weight division ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - For more headlines, click here . This episode is all about local community organizers joining forces to uplift Laredo. We’re taking you on the Urbana Coffee Tour to sample local brews, exploring the free family-friendly missions of Noche de Museos , highligh...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo-born artist Josephine Sacabo is returning to her hometown for a major retrospective featuring five bodies of work spanning her career. The exhibition opens next week at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). An opening reception is scheduled for ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot dry airmass occupies a deep layer of the atmosphere above Oklahoma to Arkansas south through Texas. Weather systems that could change our weather are forced to track around our deep hot airmass. There are no signals yet that this will change anytime so...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A group of San Ygnacio landowners and members of the coalition “No to the Border Wall” protested in front of the federal courthouse in Laredo. The group says the federal government seized their property for the proposed border wall without notice or payment....
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The city of Laredo said rumors circulating on social media about a possible cause of an unusual smell in the water are not true. In a statement, the city and its utilities department said no human remains were found in the water system. The city said there i...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Tens of thousands of identical survey answers have Laredo officials suspecting a setup. The survey aims to gauge opinions on new data center standards, but officials say it was hijacked instead. Survey took a strange turn City Manager Joseph Neeb said it sta...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The City of Laredo and its Utilities Department said false information is circulating on social media about human remains being found in the water system. The city on Thursday, Aug. 20, said the claim is completely false. No human remains have been found in ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A coordinated enforcement effort dismantled a human smuggling operation July 30 in the 400 block of Olive Street, U.S. Border Patrol said. Border Patrol, the Texas Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security Investigations launched an investigation aft...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Property owners from San Ygnacio are taking their fight over border wall construction to federal court. The announcement came during a demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Downtown Laredo. The property owners say government crews with bulldoze...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Property owners from San Ignacio are taking their fight over border wall construction to federal court. The announcement came during a demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Downtown Laredo. The property owners say government crews with bulldoze...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A Mexican citizen is headed to federal prison after admitting he helped move millions of dollars in drug money through Laredo. Prosecutors said 52-year-old Gabriel Arturo Castillo was part of a “black-market peso exchange” scheme. The scheme took U.S. drug p...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Animal Care Services (LACS) will hold its Clear the Shelters event Saturday, Aug. 22, from noon to 4 p.m. Clear the Shelters is a national initiative led by NBC Universal. The Laredo event will offer free adoptions for cats and dogs of all ages and si...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Cooler airmasses are tracking through the central and northern Great Plains and through the Tennessee Valley to the east. This leaves Texas in a very hot and dry airmass with our 105F afternoon heat persisting. A shallow layer of humid gulf air will arrive l...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Items not meant to be flushed down toilets are piling up at Laredo’s wastewater treatment plant, according to the Laredo Utilities Department. Socks, plastic toys, T-shirts and pieces of wood were found in a pile that came from toilets flushed around north L...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo Animal Protective Society (LAPS) is looking for a home for Uma, a four-year-old dog. Sofi Juarez with LAPS said Uma had heartworms when she first came to LAPS but was treated and is now healthy. Juarez said she fostered Uma for two days. “She gets...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot airmass over the western U.S. will merge with the southern Great Plains hot airmass by the end of this week. This will mean no end to our hotter than average weather during the 7 day time frame, perhaps well into next week. Dry air above will continue ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Don Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez Meza, known as Chito, has died, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos announced in a statement issued today. He was 90. Rodríguez Meza pitched for the Tecolotes in the late 1950s before building his reputation in the front office. He won ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The United Longhorns finished the 2025 season with a 10-3 record making the third round of the playoffs in the process. One of the Longhorns strengths a year ago was how easy they were able to move the ball. In large part that was made possible thanks to the...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Webb County leaders are holding a public town hall on the New World Screwworm . The meeting will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Laredo ISD Performing Arts Center on San Bernardo Avenue. Doors open at 10 a.m., with presentations starting at 11 a.m. Ra...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A capital murder case is headed to trial after Fernando Machado turned down a plea deal Monday , Aug. 17. He is accused of shooting more than 100 rounds in a south Laredo neighborhood in 2025, killing one woman and seriously injuring two others. Prosecutors ...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - An increasingly hot airmass will expand east from the western U.S. and will merge with a hot airmass over the southern Great Plains this week. This will mean an extended period of near 105F heat with very little chance of rain during the 7 day time frame. Mo...
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Nixon mustangs are coming off a strong 2025 season making the playoffs for the first time since 2017. Part of the mustangs success from last year was the continuity the team had, that veteran leadership from guys like Amir Shrek and Hunter Salinas will c...
