Mary Cantrell

The doors of Dirks-Anderson Elementary will be closed to students this coming school year due to a controversial decision by Fort Davis ISD’s new superintendent, Jason Crow, to consolidate campuses to save the rural district money. Crow said in a recent i... See more

A federal judge on Sunday declined to block construction on the Trump administration’s Big Bend area border wall, saying plaintiffs could not argue the plan violates a federal law because the administration was legally allowed to bypass that law. The Pres... See more

The Texas General Land Office on Friday sent cease and desist letters to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and a federal contractor working on the Trump administration’s planned Big Bend area border wall, saying the company “illegally” cleared over a mil... See more

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, slammed the Trump administration’s plan to build a 175-mile stretch of border wall in the Big Bend region at a campaign event in Sanderson on Monday, calling the project “corrupt.” Talaric... See more

Two weeks after the Trump administration was sued over its plan for a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas, with plaintiffs claiming the plan violated a federal law, the administration responded by waiving that law entirely for the wall p... See more