Zoe Kurland
Senior ProducerZoe began her audio career working with the Kitchen Sisters and interning for Marfa Public Radio. After a stint in documentary film, she returned to radio as a reporter and producer in Los Angeles, and now, far West Texas. Zoe’s work has been featured on Marketplace and in New York Magazine, and she’s won multiple Regional Murrow Awards for her feature reporting and podcast work, and recently, a National Murrow award for Innovation.
Zoe is the host, reporter and producer of the station's latest podcast, A Whole Other Country (named one of the best podcasts of 2025 by The Atlantic). She has also produced Marfa for Beginners, So Far From Care, and Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep, in addition to creating and writing the station’s weekly newsletter, The Desert Dispatch.
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As the Trump administration moves forward with a border wall in the region, a local archeologist says early construction activities have already damaged a notorious historic massacre site in Presidio County. Descendants say the wall threatens to further erase a painful and undertold history they’ve worked for years to bring to light. -
Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor awarded $1.7 billion for the project were seen in the national park on Tuesday as local activists warn construction could start at any moment. -
Officials in Jeff Davis and Presidio counties are holding off on making deals with a border wall contractor that's aiming to use a remote dirt road to the Rio Grande as a key access point for the Trump administration’s Big Bend area border wall. -
A ballot proposition during the November general election will ask voters to approve a new Emergency Services District for the county’s northern half. The district would be funded through a property tax increase and would provide Marathon with its own ambulance station. -
Quorum Health, the company that owns and operates Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, recently announced plans to transition all of its for-profit hospitals to nonprofits by this fall. Local officials say they are still waiting for more information on the change. -
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There’s been a lot of confusion this year about the Trump administration’s plan for new border barriers across the Big Bend region of West Texas. Here’s a rundown of what federal border agencies say they’re planning. -
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