Travis Bubenik
News DirectorTravis has waltzed across Texas throughout his career in journalism, covering everything from pipeline protests in the Big Bend and oilfield flaring in the Permian Basin to Gulf Coast hurricanes and courtroom battles all over the state.
A Houston native and University of Texas alum, he got his start in public radio as an intern at Marfa Public Radio, where he has at various times been a reporter and host of both Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Travis’ reporting has frequently appeared on NPR and public radio’s Marketplace. His dog Valentine is indeed named after the town.
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The Judd Foundation and Chinati Foundation — two arts organizations that preserve the late minimalist artist's legacy and work — announced Friday the listing of the Donald Judd Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. -
The Judd Foundation has settled a lawsuit that accused the reality TV star of promoting fake versions of the late minimalist artist’s well-known tables and chairs. Kardashian “will now have authentic Donald Judd tables and chairs,” the foundation said. -
Republican state Rep. Brooks Landgraf proposed the ban after a fire at an Odessa area chemical storage facility that allegedly filled a nearby neighborhood with “black sludge.” House Bill 3866 is now on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. -
The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the case Thursday. Brewster County’s top official described it as an “extremely mild” case in an Alpine man. -
In 1918, a group of Texas Rangers, U.S. soldiers and West Texas ranchers shot and killed 15 Hispanic men and boys in what became known as the Porvenir Massacre. -
A lightning strike is believed to have caused the Blue Fire that broke out this weekend in the DMR, a rugged residential subdivision in the mountains of Jeff Davis County. The fire - only a handful of acres in size - burned to the west of the subdivision’s main area of roads and homes. -
On Saturday, voters in the Big Bend and Permian Basin rejected funding proposals for education and water infrastructure and elected new local government officials. Voters in Ector County approved two emergency services districts that will bring fire and EMS operations to unincorporated parts of the county. -
A $22 million project to tear down and rebuild the Chisos Mountains Lodge at Big Bend National Park was originally slated to begin in May but has been delayed multiple times this year. -
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The White House said Tuesday it would expand a move to authorize military control of federally owned border land to include more than 90 miles of land in Texas. Administration officials have so far declined to say where that land is, but most federal border land within the state is located in Big Bend and a complex of South Texas wildlife refuges.
