Gunmen have killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her.

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record.

Tropical Storm Alberto came ashore around daybreak Thursday near the border of Tamaulipas and Veracruz in northeastern Mexico.

Mexico's health ministry has tallied at least 125 heat-related deaths this year.

A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America.

Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies.

Mexican activists have filed a criminal complaint at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, arguing authorities cooperated with or allowed drug cartels to abduct people who were never seen again.

People in the Mexican mountain town of San Marcos Atexquilapan (Ah-tex-ki-LAH-pahn) spent days preparing and collecting donations to cover the funeral costs of three teenage cousins who were among the 53 migrants who died inside a semitrailer in Texas.

Mexican state prosecutors say two journalists have been shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

As Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador opens talks on immigration and other issues with his North American counterparts in Washington, a new migrant caravan has walked out of the southern Mexican city of Tapachula.

Hurricane Grace has rapidly strengthened into a major Category 3 storm as it bears down on a second landfall in Mexico.

The most authoritative count of homicides in Mexico shows that killings remain essentially unchanged at 36,579 in 2020.

Farmers digging in a citrus grove on New Year's Day found the six-foot tall statue of a female figure who may represent an elite woman rather than a goddess, or some mixture of the two, experts said Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said it was the first such statue found in a region known as the Huasteca. While the site where it was found is nearer to the pre-Hispanic ruin site of El Tajín, the statue shows some influences of the Aztecs. Farmers digging in the grove found it on New Year's Day and quickly reported it to authorities. But it has never been firmly established that the woman, whose tomb dates from between 600 and 700 A.D., was a ruler of Palenque.

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Valdivia covered general news in that part of Veracruz, including crime. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that he knows journalists do “heroic” work in that part of Veracruz and in other places. The Veracruz state prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednesday that its investigation would include Valdivia’s work as a journalist as one of the principal lines of inquiry. Mexican authorities have been criticized in previous cases for quickly discounting any connection between murdered journalists and their work. “We're talking about areas in a state of decomposition.”Tezonapa, where Valdivia was from, sits at the border between Veracruz and Oaxaca.

iStock/klikk(CNN) - At least 23 people are dead and 13 injured after an arson attack caused a fire at a bar in Mexico on Tuesday night. The fire broke out at the White Horse bar in Coatzacoalcos in the southern state of Veracruz, the prosecutor's office in Veracruz said in a statement. Fifteen of the deceased are men and eight are women, according to the prosecutor's office. The Veracruz public security secretary and the prosecutor's office said they were working to locate the suspects involved. In Veracruz, criminal groups are no longer tolerated," Garca Jimnez said, referring to the shooting of 13 people at family party in Minatitln, Veracruz in April.