Houston preservationist J.P. Bryan has funded a legal battle against the city’s Downtown multipurpose arena and donated tens of thousands of dollars to El Paso City Council candidates in the last two elections. In March, ...
As more El Pasoans receive their COVID-19 vaccines, questions remain about what activities are safe to participate in following the two-week waiting period after the second doses. El Paso Matters asked local infectious disease experts ...
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies away from jail. Crisis intervention teams are designed to improve law enforcement officers’ ...
Child advocates have seen changes in the ways cases of abuse have been reported to authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the majority of children haven’t returned to schools for in-person learning — ...
A controversial bill designed to redistrict and reduce the courts of appeals in Texas has been withdrawn after it drew sharp criticism during a public hearing in Austin last week. Senate Bill 11, filed by ...
Many El Paso homeowners are seeing a significant spike in their property appraisals, pushed upward by a hot real-estate market during the pandemic, Central Appraisal District officials said. The average home valuation in El Paso ...
When COVID-19 reached the Southwest last March, library systems faced multiple challenges. The impact on Texas and New Mexico libraries has varied when it comes to budget cuts, furloughs and the level of services provided. ...
Before COVID-19 reached the Borderland and El Pasoans’ lives were turned upside down, mental health providers began anticipating what the pandemic’s impacts for the community could be. El Paso mental health experts braced for how ...
With two full years in operation, the El Paso Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team has helped divert hundreds of El Pasoans dealing with a mental health crisis away from jail, but officials say gaps in ...
A lawsuit by former state Rep. Joe Pickett alleges the city of El Paso is hiding tax increases in water bills, using a fee that purportedly is to pay for damages to streets caused by ...
Some El Paso librarians have been reinstated to their jobs, two days after the city sparked public outrage by sending them layoff notices. Sue Barnum, a longtime librarian who received a layoff notice on Wednesday ...
Five city leadership executives received higher pay rates in October, triggering concerns among some city representatives who said they were not advised ahead of the changes. City executive pay raise data from March through January ...
The city of El Paso on Wednesday informed 75 furloughed employees — mostly library workers — that their jobs are being permanently eliminated. Officials said the employees would be offered other jobs in the city, ...
The El Paso Police Department can’t account for more than half the internal reports it says are regularly conducted to track performance, according to documents obtained by El Paso Matters through the Texas Public Information ...
An effort to redistrict and reduce courts of appeals in Texas could have major implications for El Pasoans. Texas currently has 14 courts of appeals throughout the state, including the 8th Court of Appeals that ...
Climbing onto her blue Yamaha sports motorcycle and taking a long drive is one of the tools Ursula Martinez, a single mother of three, uses to cope with the periodic stress of supporting her children ...
Multiple city employees who have been furloughed since May said they are in the dark on whether they will have a job to return to, or when they may be able to return to work. ...
The more contagious variant of COVID-19 will likely reach El Paso — which could send the city toward another deadly surge in cases and hospitalizations, medical experts say. More contagious COVID-19 variants, while not proven ...
Proposed amendments to the city’s ethics ordinance include restrictions for who can file a complaint and punishments for people who file complaints that are deemed to be frivolous — changes that are raising concern among ...
With an overwhelming call by voters for a change in leadership at the helm of the city, many El Paso City Council representatives are looking forward to moving ahead in the New Year by focusing ...
With the onset of winter and cooler weather driving many El Pasoans indoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an infectious disease expert answers key Q:s about what people should keep in mind to protect themselves from ...
Lorena Montoya, like thousands of El Pasoans facing financial hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been relying on the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank to help feed her family. Montoya, who cleans houses for ...
In the Dec. 12 mayoral runoff, El Pasoans face a unique choice — two candidates who have held the office, and have a record from their time of service. Oscar Leeser, El Paso’s mayor from ...
District Attorney-elect Yvonne Rosales has told dozens of attorneys and staff that they will be out of a job when she takes office Jan. 1. The attorneys handling the prosecution of the Walmart mass shooting ...
El Paso’s low-income neighborhoods bore a disproportionate share of El Paso’s fall COVID-19 explosion, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. Advocates for low-income families said a variety of challenges face those areas, including many essential ...
This story has been updated with comment from Mayor Dee Margo. In a nationally televised interview, El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said El Paso is facing a COVID-19 crisis because Hispanics are far more likely ...
A young family lost their husband and father to COVID-19. They are coping with grief as the holidays approach Erika Morales and her four young children are facing the holiday season without a key member ...
As El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis continues, an emergency medicine expert warns hospitals may run out of space to treat those affected by the pandemic. State and federal agencies have sent a wave of medical personnel ...
Thirty-two-year old Juan Chico died of COVID-19 in an Austin hospital after his family agreed to have him flown out of an El Paso intensive care unit for treatment. Area hospitals and families that participate ...
Three City Council representatives asked for a special City Council meeting on Monday so they could criticize three colleagues for issuing a press release supporting County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s order to close many businesses because ...
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