Q: If two ranches are separated by a length of old barbed-wire fencing and that fence needs repair, who is responsible come fence-mending time? Name Withheld, Weatherford A: Your inquiry is more ...

The wrangling over concertina wire along the Rio Grande is the latest legal battle between Texas and the Biden administration over border security. By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston In the ...

On a list of the most important technologies that have shaped the American West, barbed wire would have to be near the top. The sharp metal fencing transformed the open range because it divided the ...

A Fort Erie, Ont., man was arrested on the Peace Bridge on Thursday and accused of using wire cutters to cut a barbed wire fence and enter the United States. Pawel Aleksander Grodkowski, 53, was ...

March 28 (UPI) --A British Columbia man who spotted an elk with its legs entangled in a barbed wire fence retrieved some wire cutters and returned to free the animal. Kate Bremner posted a video to ...

Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

In the latest chapter in an expanding legal struggle over border security, a federal judge in Texas ordered federal Border Patrol agents on Monday to stop cutting concertina wire that had been placed ...