Travis Bubenik
Big Bend Reporter at KRTP (Alpine, TX)
Host at All Things Considered
News Director @MarfaRadio. Formerly @CourthouseNews and @HoustonPubMedia. Tips/holler: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Travis Bubenik
Firefighters were responding Sunday to a small wildfire in the Davis Mountains Resort, a rugged residential subdivision in the mountains of Jeff Davis County. As of Sunday morning, the Texas A&M Forest Service reported the fire’s size as just 3 acres with 10% contained. Location data from the forest service showed the fire burning to the west of the subdivision’s main area of roads and homes.
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2 weeks ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Travis Bubenik
The start of a multi-year project to tear down and rebuild the Chisos Mountains Lodge at Big Bend National Park has been delayed once again and is now set to begin in August. The updated timeline was recently posted on the park’s website. The $22 million project — which is expected to take at least two years — was originally slated to begin this May and was previously pushed back to July.
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3 weeks ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Travis Bubenik
Dear listeners,I’m writing to you today with a heavy heart. Last week, we were saddened to hear of the passing of one of our longtime volunteer music program hosts, the inimitable John Paul “J.P.” Schwartz, known for years on the West Texas airwaves by his DJ moniker “Doc Cactus.”According to an obituary shared with Marfa Public Radio, J.P. died unexpectedly at his home in Cornwall, England, on April 14, 2025.
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3 weeks ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Travis Bubenik
The Trump administration is expanding an effort to bring the border under military control into Texas, a move that could impact the state’s few stretches of federally-owned border land in Big Bend National Park and a complex of South Texas wildlife refuges.
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1 month ago |
marfapublicradio.org | Travis Bubenik
U.S. military officials say troops deployed on a border security mission have arrived in the Big Bend region, with the number of troops set to grow to about 500 in the coming weeks. At a Friday morning press briefing in Alpine, officials with the Army and border agencies said the deployment — part of the Trump administration’s across the Southern border — began on March 13.
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