During the pandemic, filmmaker Alejandra Vasquez traveled to her hometown of Denver City to document her family over the course of a historic oil bust.

The Big Bend Conservation Alliance says it’s already using the $650,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to pay for a project to preserve an Indigenous cemetery in Presidio and to create a study of “land reclamation” needs among Native Americans with ties to the region.

In Alpine on Tuesday, U.S. and Mexican officials gathered for a repatriation ceremony of ancient artifacts that were stolen from a museum in northern Mexico in 2008.