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 ...
As El Paso is facing the worst COVID-19 outbreak among major U.S. cities and with the flu season looming, a local infectious disease expert is urging the community to get the flu vaccine by this ...
Valentine’s Day has been forever changed for El Pasoan Norma Lowry, who was diagnosed with breast cancer on that date this year. The 36-year-old Army veteran and mother of two did not have a history ...
El Paso city leaders responded to nationwide concerns over policing with a resolution that “seeks to encourage the elimination of racial disparities and improve law enforcement interactions” and called for a review of use-of-force policies ...
The winner of El Paso’s mayoral election will be tasked with leading the city during tumultuous times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayor, who presides over City Council meetings and votes in case ...
El Paso’s next mayor will be elected amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has not only jeopardized the health and safety of residents, but has severely strained the local economy with potentially long-lasting effects. The ...
Deaths by suicide among adults have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in El Paso, but mental health experts are concerned at a rise in suicide attempts. Not only have attempts at suicide for adults increased ...
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 ...
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