El Pasoans feeling their jeans fitting a little tight these days may have fallen victim to another aspect of the pandemic — weight gain, also being referred to as the “quarantine 15.” The 15 refers ...
As families have been maneuvering through the COVID-19 pandemic, the social isolation of staying home may also be leading to strain on the mental health of children and adolescents. Dr. Sarah Martin, child and adolescent ...
A state attorney general ruling will allow the city of El Paso to withhold the names of facilities where COVID-19 outbreaks. A Houston attorney with extensive experience in transparency laws criticized the ruling. “The AG ...
As El Paso enters the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease expert Dr. Ogechika Alozie talks about the importance of not letting one’s guard down when it comes to navigating life during the ...
As the El Paso City Council remains divided on whether to identify facilities where there have been COVID-19 outbreaks, state agencies in Texas and around the country are beginning to share the information regularly. Opponents ...
It’s hard to believe three months have passed since I started my journey into pandemic-induced vegetable gardening. I was never someone that thought about growing my own food before COVID-19 came to town, but that ...
Weeks of debating whether to release information that would identify locations of COVID-19 outbreaks has left the City Council increasingly divided while cases of the deadly virus continue to spread throughout the community. Attempts to ...
The morning of Aug. 3, 2019, started as a routine Saturday at University Medical Center of El Paso and Del Sol Medical Center. Until 10:39 a.m. That moment, where the first call came into 911 ...
United Way of El Paso County has extensive experience in crisis, which it brought to bear after the Aug. 3 mass shooting last year. The unprecedented attack on Latinos where 23 people were killed by ...
The nonprofit tasked with allocating more than $11.8 million donated to the victims and families of the Aug. 3 terror attack in El Paso completed its disbursements a few weeks before the anniversary of the ...
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-evaluate whether El Paso is violating clean air standards, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled. The decision stems from a federal lawsuit that challenged the EPA’s designation ...
The city of El Paso will continue to withhold the names of facilities and businesses that have clusters of COVID-19 positive cases after Mayor Dee Margo broke a 4-4 tie vote at City Council on ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags into its fifth month in the Borderland, some groups that rely on volunteers are seeing a drop in participation despite a growing need for help. El Paso nonprofits say they ...
Child advocates are seeing troubling trends in reported cases of abuse since the COVID-19 pandemic reached El Paso in mid-March. Texas Abuse Hotline calls show that during the months of March, April and May, the ...
The runoff race to determine who will preside over the 388th District Court, which has the power to determine outcomes in cases such as divorces, child custody and protective orders, has been wrought with negativity. ...
As El Paso businesses and activities have reopened during the continued spread of COVID-19, Dr. Armando Meza, chief of infectious diseases at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso, sheds light on how to cautiously navigate ...
An El Paso man who has been allowed to stay in the United States under the Obama administration’s DACA program celebrated a Supreme Court decision Thursday that allowed the program to continue. But he also ...
While El Paso hasn’t had any reported cases of a rare multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19, health experts advise parents to be on the lookout for related symptoms. Dr. Gilbert Handal, a ...
The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank hopes to continue a pilot program to deliver thousands of emergency food boxes to vulnerable families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May, more than 2,000 food boxes have ...
El Paso’s latest rally to honor George Floyd and victims of police brutality ended peacefully despite moments of tension between law enforcement and protesters. The hours-long event Tuesday night, organized by a group called the ...
A dramatic decline in visits to emergency rooms has health officials worried that El Pasoans are not seeking the care they need for fear of contracting COVID-19. Delaying care could have dire consequences. Officials at ...
There may never be a clear answer as to why El Pasoans cleared store shelves of toilet paper weeks before the first reported case of COVID-19 hit the borderland, an expert says.. Ten weeks into ...
Frustrated with a lack of action from government officials to provide assistance to immigrant farmworkers and undocumented familes that serve El Paso, three organizations have started a GoFundMe to make an immediate difference. Agricultural workers ...
Second in a series on implications of COVID-19 antibody testing. Previously: Antibody testing begins in El Paso. Next: Getting results from testing. El Paso hospitals in the fight to help heal patients with COVID-19 are ...
I’ve never fancied myself a “green thumb.” If anything, I would say I’ve had an indifferent thumb when it comes to gardening. Quite frankly if the novel coronavirus hadn’t reached a pandemic level I may ...
El Paso’s iconic independent publishing company Cinco Puntos Press has taken a significant financial hit amid the economic shutdown caused by the spread of the novel coronavirus — and they are asking the community for ...
El Paso area farmworkers are transported to worksites in conditions that may make them susceptible to the spread of coronavirus. Farmworkers generally are picked up at a Downtown center and put in vans and trucks ...
El Paso area rideshare drivers say they have minimal guidance when it comes to protecting themselves against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Many have developed their own systems for trying to keep their vehicles ...
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