The city has scheduled several community meetings throughout El Paso to get feedback on new voting boundaries for the eight City Council districts — a process done once every 10 years. The meeting schedule offers ...
With the new Safe Outdoor Dogs Act in effect in Texas, El Paso city and county governments have programs that could help some dog owners who may be out of compliance. The new law that ...
As the primary election nears for El Paso County Commissioners Court seats, Precinct 2 challenger Judy Gutierrez leads incumbent David Stout in fundraising efforts with heavy law enforcement union support. Campaign finance reports for the ...
Update, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 19: El Paso City Council on Tuesday instructed city staff to safeguard the damaged buildings without touching or entering the structures and return in two weeks with cost estimates for further ...
El Paso animal advocates say a new Texas law banning chains or heavy weights as restraints on outdoor dogs is a step in the right direction, but enforcement will be critical. The Safe Outdoor Dogs ...
The City of El Paso’s Districting Commission will hold its first meeting of the year on Wednesday at City Hall. The effort is part of the process to establish new voting districts for city representatives ...
Street infrastructure will be a high priority for the bond program the city of El Paso will likely ask voters to approve during the November general election. The city government is in the early stages ...
City officials plan to ask voters in November to approve a bond issue for capital improvements, according to city documents. An item on the City Council’s first meeting of the year scheduled for Tuesday calls ...
The highly transmissible COVID-19 omicron variant — while not yet confirmed in El Paso — may already be in the area, local infectious disease experts said. Between updates to quarantine guidelines and rising questions about ...
The two El Paso County commissioner seats up for reelection in 2022 have drawn a variety of candidates. El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego will not face a challenger in the March Democratic primary election, ...
The City of El Paso’s Districting Commission, tasked with recommending new voting districts for city representatives that will stay in place for the next decade, is aiming to increase public participation in the process as ...
The city likely will pursue more federal funding for a Downtown deck plaza after it received a $900,000 grant for a design study for the project that previously had no identified funding sources. The U.S. ...
Update 3:35 p.m. Nov. 11: The story has been updated with additional information about the ordinance, and with comment from city Rep. Cissy Lizarraga. The El Paso City Council voted to expand the areas where ...
Update 5:45 p.m. Nov. 10: On Wednesday, the day after the City Council vote on the arena, the El Paso-based 8th Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to grant Max Grossman’s appeal requesting an injunction on ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court adopted a new election map for the four commissioner precincts on Monday, concluding a months-long process to reestablish boundaries based on decennial U.S. census data. The map that was ...
El Paso County officials may put off the full reopening of its senior centers after a spike in COVID-19 cases among El Pasoans ages 60 and older. El Paso County COVID-19 data shows 304 new ...
Update 6:20 p.m. Nov. 3: This story has been updated to include coment from city Rep. Isabel Salcido. Former Democratic state Rep. Joe Pickett is challenging incumbent city Rep. Isabel Salcido in the November 2022 ...
The El Paso City Council is debating whether to expand the areas where open containers of alcohol are prohibited around homeless shelters — a move some local lawmakers say could criminalize homelessness. The Texas Alcoholic ...
The El Paso County Redistricting Advisory Commission is close to making a recommendation to the County Commissioners Court on how to redraw the boundaries for the four commissioner precincts. Voting boundaries for elected officials at ...
Over the past two decades, the El Paso Police Department has paid Robert Taylor more than $1 million as a consultant and trainer. But a federal judge earlier this year said city lawyers could not ...
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that could be disturbing to some readers. A federal judge ruled last month that an excessive force lawsuit against an El Paso Police officer will continue and be decided ...
Upper Valley homeowner Perla Aguilera will have to reevaluate her family’s spending habits as she prepares to pay higher property taxes this year. Like thousands of El Pasoans, Aguilera saw a spike in her home ...
The El Paso City Attorney’s Office use of a provision of the Texas Public Information Act that allowed it to delay responding to open records requests has ended. The move comes after state lawmakers made ...
City officials will withhold the details of its two top executives’ annual performance evaluations after a ruling from the Texas attorney general gave them the option whether to disclose the documents based on “attorney-client privilege” ...
El Paso County sheriff’s deputies will navigate more than 80 acres of rugged land near the Socorro Student Activities Complex in an effort to reduce criminal activity that has plagued the area. The move comes ...
University Medical Center will likely adopt a lower tax rate for its next fiscal year after receiving a $34.7 million commitment in American Rescue Plan Act funds from the county — an allotment county officials ...
Amid an increase in COVID-19, cases local government bodies such as City Council and County Commissioners Court will be required to hold meetings in person following Gov. Greg Abbott’s reversal of suspended rules for the ...
The federal and state cases against the gunman accused of killing 23 people and injuring dozens more at an El Paso Walmart face ongoing delays with no trial dates set in either jurisdiction. At the ...
As the city of El Paso prepares to issue another multimillion dollar round of non-voter approved debt, experts say the practice raises red flags and will have long-term impacts for generations of taxpayers. The El ...
City and county leaders urged more El Pasoans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as cases climb and the threat of the latest variant of the disease looms. Of the 251 positive cases reported from July ...
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