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 ...
City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman received pay raises following their annual performance evaluations, but the city is trying to withhold details of the decision for the second year in a row. ...
While the El Paso City Council moves forward with discussions ahead of adopting next year’s proposed $473 million budget, it’s clear some departments will see funding increases above 2020’s pre-pandemic levels while others will fall ...
Local hospitals are seeing a spike in patients who delayed getting treatment for illnesses during the COVID-19 pandemic as cases of the coronavirus in El Paso have declined and more El Pasoans have been vaccinated. ...
Amid the rubble of the dilapidated buildings where the city plans to build a downtown arena a pack of dogs and litter of puppies roam the fenced-in, city-owned site. A group of residents, including former ...
Despite assertions from state leadership that Texas is again open for business, delayed access to public records through the Texas Public Information Act from some local governments will continue indefinitely while the use of “skeleton ...
As the number of cases of COVID-19 in El Paso continues to decline and the number of people vaccinated increases, the city and county are preparing to get employees back to work in person. El ...
Multiple bills aimed at police reform introduced during Texas’ 87th Legislature failed to gain traction. while bills aimed to maintain police funding and to protect officers were signed into law. An El Paso City Council ...
The El Paso City Council will begin reviewing possible changes to the City Charter in an November 2022 amendment election after a city representative said voters should decide on whether to switch back to a ...
Following a drop in the city’s budget last year due to impacts of COVID-19, city officials are looking at increasing the budget for the 2022 fiscal year by about $33 million — a move that ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court and the El Paso City Council are gearing up for the decennial task of redistricting political boundaries based on U.S. Census data — a move that could impact who ...
In the aftermath of the August 2019 shooting that left 23 people in El Paso dead, area lawmakers were cautiously optimistic that the rampage, one of the worst in Texas history, would spur Texas Republicans ...
For years, Areli Rosales has struggled with depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after she was sexually assaulted at age 11. Now 17, Rosales said she managed to keep the worst of her anxiety at ...
An “emergency response team” of law enforcement officers from smaller agencies in El Paso County is raising questions about need and liability from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and a national law enforcement organization. ...
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 — ...
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