1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (335+ words) Lightning struck and thunder rolled, but the party went on for Big Bend. While 82 years young isn't a major milestone, it's still worth celebrating, or so thought the 100-odd partygoers gathered in Terlingua on June 13." "That was a pretty good…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (443+ words) Almost two years after the arrest, Gray finally is facing proceedings in the 394th District Court after the judge on June 9 issued a notice to attorneys to set a date for a final plea deal or a trial." One of the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (523+ words) School may be out for summer, but Marfa ISD employees and board members are still hard at work with day camps, a superintendent search, hiring new teachers, and celebrating a newly awarded Moody Foundation M-Pact grant for pre K-3 and early…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (201+ words) It's time for the annual Summer Shake-up restaurant extravaganza, Kid Cafe, presented by Marfa Public Library and the Marfa Independent School District. The community is invited to stop by the library courtyard at 11: 30 a. m. on Thursday, June 18, to try the most…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (499+ words) Presidio County officials are weighing whether county-owned land could be made available for a new AEP Texas substation, as the utility continues searching for a roughly four-acre site to increase the infrastructure needed to increase its peak capacity for the…...

1+ week, 10+ min ago  (1665+ words) The Big Bend project was always unique among proposed national parks. As former Chief Naturalist Frank Decker wrote in 1981, "No other national park has this combination of size and remoteness coupled with the romance and mystery of the Mexican border....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (775+ words) The Trump administration is once again bypassing federal environmental laws to speed up work on border barriers and related infrastructure in the Big Bend region of West Texas, this time for a project in and around the region's namesake national…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (198+ words) Young artists will have a chance to explore their creative side this July as the Museum of the Big Bend hosts its annual Summer Art Camp. Running from July 2024, 2026, the camp will take place at the museum's Cultural Events Center,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (548+ words) The dusty outskirts of Presidio could soon be covered in warehouses of data centers. Two proponents of a data center complex sought early interest in a deal to build within the industrial zone from the Presidio Municipal Development District Board....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (427+ words) The heavy machinery is moving in. Barely a week after receiving a $2. 6 billion federal contract for border wall construction, subcontractors for Fisher Industries have started to build a lay-down site for equipment outside of Presidio." As the sun rose on…...