Eye on Politics breaks down some of the biggest political stories grabbing headlines in North Texas and beyond.

The U.S. government is asking people to avoid traveling to certain areas of the Texas-Mexico border due to security concerns.

U.S. officials have put several Mexican border towns near Texas under the highest-level travel advisory amid gun battles, kidnappings and IEDs in the area.

Amid escalating violence and IEDs, the U.S. Embassy advises against travel to the US- Mexico border and Mexico's Tamaulipas region.

The new Texas National Guard and military troops sent recently to the Rio Grande Valley will assist Border Patrol agents on the border of South Texas. They were holding training exercises Tuesday

According to reports, there were no injuries in the incident near Fronton Island, an uninhabited island in Starr County, Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed that border agents were fired upon from the Mexican side of the border. On Monday, Texas DPS Lieutenant Olivarez confirmed that shots were fired from inside Mexico toward a group of Border Patrol agents on Fronton Island.

Three Mexican fishermen were caught with 200 pounds of illegally-harvested red snapper in federal waters off southern Texas

The reusable plastic packaging maker wants to get closer to its customers, but that does not just mean geographically.

Simek hopes that a new initiative called the Dallas Contemporary North Texas Graduate Student Program will change that.

The U.S. State Department is warning travelers of IEDs found along dirt roads near an area of northeastern Mexico that borders McAllen, Texas.