When it comes to campaigning during COVID-19, necessity breeds invention. For some of El Paso’s mayoral candidates, this has certainly been the case, as they have embraced new and unconventional methods of voter outreach. For ...
A detainee who has tested positive for COVID-19 at the ICE El Paso Processing Center described neglectful conditions among sick detainees as an outbreak spread in the facility. Sandra, whose last name will not be ...
El Pasoans love their furry friends. That’s why we reached out to you, El Paso Matters readers, for your input on the latest installment of How we pandemic, where we discuss why this unique moment ...
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions have not only affected lawful cross-border activity, but also illicit border crossings, including smuggling operations. Borderwide drug smuggling arrests of U.S. citizens have increased 47 percent this fiscal year. Since March ...
El Paso Matters is working on a story about the role pets have played during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can help us by sharing your experiences. Loading… Cover photo: Ivan Hernandez, 10, accompanied by his ...
El Pasoans were reminded of the grave risks of cross-border smuggling when seven people died in a car crash on Paisano Drive on June 25 after the driver allegedly fled the Border Patrol during what ...
Although the global COVID-19 pandemic is undeniably awful, a silver lining can be glimpsed through rapid innovation in medical technologies, underscoring the extent of human ingenuity when confronted with crisis. El Paso health officials say ...
Francisco “Paco” Isais, 71, an employee of The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus, died on Aug. 5 of COVID-19. His wife Martha, 66, said that if the testing process at University Medical Center had been ...
Businesses on both sides of the Paso del Norte Bridge, reliant on foot traffic of border-crossers who stop and shop, have been hit hard by the border shutdown. The longer the border remains closed, the ...
Fashion can be a potent and visible form of political resistance. Coded with meaning, our clothing communicates social status, cultural belonging, and is deeply tied to personal identity. For Juárez fashion cooperative Ni En More, ...
In the past several weeks, El Paso’s music and arts scene has experienced a rapid and radical transformation, as large numbers of survivors have spoken out publicly about widespread sexual assault and a culture of ...
UPDATE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Wilmur Gomez’s lawyer, Linda Corchado, late Thursday that it has no plans to move him from its El Paso detention facility. An ICE spokeswoman said Friday that Gomez “remains ...
Between five and eight intensive care unit nurses at The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus have tested positive for COVID-19, with additional suspected cases among ICU nurses, according to several Providence staff members. “We’re running ...
El Paso, like the rest of the United States and much of the world, is deeply imprinted with a legacy of racist ideology. Long before a white supremacist marched into a Walmart to massacre innocent ...
As COVID-19 cases have spiked in El Paso and other parts of the country, hospitals have borne the brunt of the crisis. Throughout the pandemic, several groups of El Paso hospital workers have spoken out ...
Early on the morning of July 8, a woman was found by Border Patrol agents with a severe head injury, just north of the border wall in New Mexico. Scant information is available regarding her ...
An El Paso sector Border Patrol agent ran over a 29-year-old Mexican man while pursuing him with a vehicle on July 1, according to Border Patrol spokesperson George Gomez. A statement from the Border Patrol ...
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 ...
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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 ...