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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said Monday he was "pausing all construction activity" in the West Texas park ahead of a visit to the region this week. Scott's visit comes after two weeks of public outcry over images of bulldozers and other heavy machinery clearing land in the park.

The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas spoke out against the Trump administration's Big Bend area border wall plans this week while campaigning in West Texas, calling the wall a "monument to corruption."

After a recent court ruling eased abortion rights advocates’ legal concerns about helping people access the procedure out of state, the Big Bend Reproductive Coalition said it will start its own fund.

As they continue to deal with staffing shortages and student absences, some smaller Texas school districts are temporarily closing for at least a few days. Several are also taking advantage of the holiday weekend by staying closed through next week.

In the Permian Basin, thousands of oil and gas wells fill the landscape, and today some of that aging equipment is bursting and leading to uncontrolled leaks.

The company will auction off one seat on its first space flight with passengers on board. The launch is set for July 20 from the company’s facility north of Van Horn, Texas.

Presidio County in Far West Texas is hours away from major hospitals and lacks some basic health care services, but the county’s vaccination rate has far outpaced most of Texas.

In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, the amount of mail coming through the small West Texas town of Valentine skyrockets.Each February, the post…

Today, we’re going to eavesdrop on a conversation between two people in Marfa, TX. It’s part of a new StoryCorps initiative called One Small Step (OSS)...

Next year, West Texas may become home to a new festival.Marfa Mayor Ann Marie Nafziger announced at Thursday’s City Council meeting that the organizers…

This year, you might find Santa’s village – or something like it – in a retrofitted RV outside the True Value hardware store in Alpine. You won’t find...

Two women remember a day in the 1950s when their elementary school in Marfa, Texas, banned speaking Spanish on campus in a ceremony called the "burial of Mr. Spanish."