Mexican authorities blamed an explosion in an oil pipeline that killed 27 people on a criminal gang, signaling that the country’s drug-related violence may be increasingly affecting its energy industry.

The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang battles. Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos’ body was found near a waterfall outside...

Four young men have been found decapitated in northern Mexico. Durango state police say the heads were found on the hood of a pickup truck left in a shopping center parking lot in the city of Gomez Palacio late Saturday. A Durango state police officer...

Federal police have arrested Mexico’s “King of Heroin,” a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said Thursday. Jose Antonio Medina,...

Reporting from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico — The mayor had good news: A notorious thug from one of the drug cartels had been found killed. Hector “El Negro” Saldana would no longer menace the people of San...

The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say. Up to mid-October, there were 1,986 killings in Juarez on the US-Mexico border - 815 more than last...

The mutilated body of a state official who authorities said was suspected of giving fake driver’s licenses to drug gang members was found hanging from a bridge Friday in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Relatives identified the man as Rogelio...

Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the second such mass killing this month. Investigators said the attack was part of a turf battle between the Juarez and Sinaloa...

Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Thursday. According to U.S. and Mexican government officials, these firearms have been...

If you’re seeing your grocery bill go up, you’re not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions....