Marfa

The Interior Department on Wednesday established the historic schoolhouse in Marfa, Texas as the nation’s newest national park unit. The site will explore the often undertold history of Mexican American school segregation across the Southwest.

The settlement comes after environmental groups sued the agency to force action on a plan to clean up haze pollution in Texas and multiple other states.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Elise Pepple, the host of Marfa for Beginners, a podcast that tells the story of daily life in that romantic west Texas art town.

Though the region’s tourism economy is booming, some within that industry have become frustrated with local officials who are allowing some short-term rental owners to get away with not paying their taxes.

The national park reached a significant milestone this year. The Far West Texas destination surpassed 500,000 visitors in a calendar year — a first in the park’s 76-year history.

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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."

As far back as the 1880s, there have been reports of mysterious glowing orbs dancing just above the horizon in far west Texas, just outside the town of…