Americans often look to the skies on the Fourth of July. They gaze at flaring fireworks or sunbathe with their families at barbecues. But this Independence Day weekend, El Pasoans and many other Americans saw ...
This story has been updated with official identifications of six of the seven killed and two of the three injured. Two eyewitness accounts of the deadly car crash in Downtown El Paso conflict with what ...
Hospital housekeeping staff take on similar levels of risk as other front-line health-care workers, but seldom receive the same level of community praise for their work. Environmental services staff, the people who ensure hospitals are ...
Young LGBTQ+ El Pasoans have mobilized around the creation of the Trans-Youth Coalition, a project offering free and low cost resources to young transgender people in need. Seeking to address gender dysphoria and combat the ...
A nursery melody plays throughout the halls of Providence Memorial Hospital whenever a baby is born. It can be a jarring reminder at the bedside of a sick or dying patient: life is still happening, ...
The El Paso County Elections office has undertaken significant steps to promote safety during upcoming local elections, including added precautions for COVID-19 prevention. Competing statewide rulings regarding voting by mail and conflict over mail-in ballot ...
You can listen to 91 years of El Paso music history via Youtube, or with fewer ads/interruptions on Mixcloud: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 “I always refer to El Paso as a port city ...
Hundreds of protesters marched through Downtown El Paso Wednesday evening in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, denouncing police brutality and calling for the defunding of the El Paso Police Department. A second smaller demonstration, located ...
El Paso City Council members engaged in a heated debate Monday over police reform and the use of force by police officers at a May 31 protest. Some council members and El Paso residents suggested ...
More than 30 El Paso physicians took the knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds Friday morning, the length of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto the neck of George ...
An El Paso black-owned business directory site will be re-launching on Juneteenth (June 19), and Black El Paso Voice is seeking black El Paso business owners, artists, churches, and organizations to submit a free directory ...
An entire El Paso family contracted COVID-19. Now on the road to recovery, they have a message of warning for El Pasoans growing lax as Texas reopens. “The scary thing about this virus is that ...
El Paso police say they fired tear gas and projectiles to break up a threatening situation at Memorial Park Sunday night, but protesters say police were responsible for the violence. More than 1,000 protesters took ...
Robert Moore contributed to this story. Daniella Perez, a 22-year-old waitress and UTEP student, lost her job when restaurants closed in mid-March as COVID-19 began spreading through El Paso. “Honestly I’m still kind of in ...
Some El Paso music venues are reinventing themselves in order to withstand the economic shock of COVID-19, while others may not reopen their doors at all. In the two months since bars and venues were ...
Metaphors of war are often used to describe COVID-19 nurses: they’re “our front lines,” combatting “an invisible enemy” in an existential global battle. But when nurses lack adequate personal protective equipment they can become not ...
First in a series on implications of antibody testing. Next: Donating convalescent plasma. Wondering whether that nasty bug you had this winter was actually COVID-19? For many who have had mild illnesses in recent months ...
It goes without saying that a global pandemic is anxiety-inducing. Around the world, people are trying to understand the changing realities of life under the veil of COVID-19. We’re commiserating about it with our friends, ...
You’ve likely heard the term on the news as public health workers discuss COVID-19: contact tracing. Often discussed alongside testing, isolation, and quarantine, contact tracing is a common practice for people working in infectious disease ...
El Paso protesters are transforming their public action toolkit in response to COVID-19, finding socially distanced ways to express solidarity and pressure for change. A cacophony of car honks filled the air around the Immigration ...
Increased mental health stressors and ongoing “stay home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing the risk of family violence, experts say. “We tend to think that (home is) the safest place for people to ...
In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...
With federal officials now recommending facemasks as a means of slowing the spread of COVID-19, El Paso designers and seamstresses have begun producing masks for friends and family, or to donate to the medical community. ...
Volunteers and donations are desperately needed by many El Paso organizations in response to COVID-19. With so many El Pasoans homebound for the foreseeable future, there has never been a better time to consider how ...
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The day before my dad had a stroke, he described the air as delicious. It was almost dusk and the sky was pale pink. We jogged along the irrigation canals in West El Paso, and ...