Shafter’s future deserves a conversation If you spend enough time around Shafter, you learn that people here can hold two ideas in their heads at the same time. We can be proud of our mining history ...

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Marfa, Texas will hold a public hearing on October 20, 2026, at 6pm in the Casner Room at City Hall, 113 S Highland Ave.

Organized opposition has formed against a proposed data center north of Alpine, and opponents said they are ramping up their ...

The long awaited train has finally come through Presidio, and a short line of five cars now runs down a few hundred yards of ...

On Wednesday, Presidio County Precinct 1 County Commissioner Deidre Hisler asked commissioners to pass a resolution ...

American Electric Power (AEP) was the lone bidder on a 5-acre property near Vizcaino Park northeast of Marfa, and county ...

Early voting for the November 3 General Election runs from Monday, October 19, to Friday, October 30, at the following times ...

Everyone is welcome to attend a special presentation at the Jeff Davis County Library on Saturday, October 17, at 2 p.m.

It was a rough, painful week in mid June. The Big Bend Sentinel was laid out and ready to go with an amazing front-page story ...

The Marfa City Council hired a new city administrator — Marfa native Hilda Cordero — last Thursday after struggling with the ...

Final rule on monarch listing proposal deferred to 2030 I fell in love with West Texas while researching the monarch ...

This fall, the City of Alpine photographed my back yard over my fence and cited me. My offense: the slides on my RV were open. Nobody lives in it. It isn’t hooked up to water or power. It sits behind ...