Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — The former governor of Colima state in southwest Mexico was killed Sunday by unidentified gunmen, state media reported.

Mexicans carrying candles and flowers paid tribute on Thursday to a mayor killed by drug hitmen, while officials vowed a tough response to increasingly bold cartels but resisted calls for more troops. Soldiers stood guard as hundreds of grieving...

Mexico City has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to marry in Argentina under a new law. The couple would have all expenses paid in the Mexican capital and in the beach resort of Cancun, the city’s tourism secretary, Alejandro...

More than 18,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from a town in northern Mexico that was flooded after authorities opened a dam’s floodgates for fear it would overflow from rains that accompanied Hurricane Alex. Evacuees from Ciudad Anahuac, near...

Honduran journalist Nahum Palacios was murdered in the northeastern city of Tocoa, becoming the third media professional to die violently in the Central American country over the past two weeks, a police spokesman said Monday. The killing occurred...

In recognition of the deep ties between the United States and Mexico, First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Mexico City, Mexico, April 13-15, on her first solo official trip as First Lady. Mrs. Obama’s international agenda will amplify the...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were “taking over Mexico” before he launched his offensive against them, and said the crackdown had achieved uneven results. Calderon’s comments...

The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico’s top cop was supposed to help clean up the country’s long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of its members themselves didn’t pass, and a supervisor was rigging results to make...

Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug gangs, local police said on Friday.

A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were released unharmed. The Bible-carrying hijacker used a juice can he said was...