El Paso County saw a fall surge of COVID-19 infections as the delta variant swept through the country. That surge produced our highest number of COVID-19 infections of 2021 — although the situation was not ...
This story has been updated with data as of Saturday, Nov. 20. El Paso children ages 5 to 11 are being vaccinated against COVID-19 at the highest rate among Texas’ largest counties. As of Saturday, ...
UPDATE Oct. 31, 8:20 p.m.: This story has been updated with data through Oct. 30. The COVID-19 situation in El Paso is … complicated. The good news is that El Paso and other border counties ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether El Paso’s Tigua Indians can offer some forms of gambling on their land, setting the stage for an end to a nearly 30-year fight between ...
The impact of COVID-19’s first 8½ months is evident in two basic numbers: deaths and births among El Paso County residents in 2020. El Paso County had never had a year in which more than ...
Update 3:20 p.m., Oct. 9: This story has been updated to include data through Friday, Oct. 8. An 18% increase in COVID-19 infections over the past week has pushed El Paso to a “high” rate ...
Growing up in El Paso in the 1980s, Cristina Ibarra couldn’t wait to get somewhere else. After graduating from Hanks High School, she made her way to the University of Texas at Austin and then ...
On a 105-degree-day in early June 2018, three Guatemalans were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the top of a bridge linking El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and told they would not ...
The number of serious crimes reported to El Paso police in 2020 declined by 18% compared to the previous year, continuing a remarkable trend, the FBI reported this week. Violent crime reported to police — ...
When people move out of El Paso, the most popular destinations are other Southwest metropolitan areas. And when people relocate to El Paso, they’re generally coming from those same areas. CBRE, one of the nation’s ...
A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false records suggesting he was monitored ...
The number of children living in El Paso County declined by more than 20,000 between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau will be releasing more detailed age data later ...
The U.S. Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to reverse decades of court rulings that have said that El Paso’s Tigua tribe and the Alabama-Coushatta of East Texas were illegally offering gambling on their ...
Update 4:10 p.m.: This story now includes comment from the ACLU. An El Paso federal judge on Thursday issued an injunction blocking Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that barred aid groups and others from transporting ...
This story has been updated with data through Saturday, Aug. 21. The current debate over COVID-19 and steps to slow its spread can be confusing. But by focusing on a few key data points, we ...
El Paso health authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza said on Monday he would issue an order requiring masks in indoor settings, including schools. The City Council voted 5-3 to approve a motion to join legal challenges ...
El Paso County’s population in the 2020 census count was 865,657, an 8% increase over the prior census in 2010 that marked the county’s slowest period of growth since the Great Depression, according to data released ...
After 17 months of working remotely, El Paso Matters journalists are now in a Downtown newsroom. El Paso Matters’ office is on the second floor of 500 W. Overland, in the Union Plaza area. The ...
El Paso’s Cinco Puntos Press, which began as a home-based business in 1985 and became one of the nation’s most influential independent book publishers, is being sold, co-owners Bobby and Lee Byrd announced on Monday. ...
Vice President Kamala Harris will come to El Paso on Friday, the first visit to the border by the Biden administration’s point person on migration issues. Details of the visit have not been released, other ...
U.S. Catholic bishops voted on Friday for a proposal to create guidelines for communion, the first step in an effort that could bar the sacrament to President Joe Biden and other Catholic elected officials who ...
As she prepared for her junior year as a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Carolina Mendez’s life was forever altered on July 3, 2019, when her father was diagnosed with pancreatic ...
El Paso’s temperature will top 100 degrees for the first time this year in the coming days, a mark that will likely be topped repeatedly over the next three months. Although El Pasoans have come ...
For four decades, the Rev. Ed Roden-Lucero has influenced El Paso far beyond the walls of the parishes he pastored. He has been a key part of efforts to bring water and sewer services to ...
In 2018, faced with intense criticism, the El Paso Border Patrol sector scrapped a “crowd control exercise” that was planned next to the Chihuahuita neighborhood on Nov. 6 — Election Day. The exercise was planned ...
This story has been updated to include data through Saturday, May 22. As COVID-19 cases have decreased in El Paso, it has become a disease primarily affecting children and teens, an El Paso Matters analysis ...
Tens of thousands of El Paso homeowners will be looking at huge property tax increases this year if local governments don’t make substantial reductions in the current rates. Homeowners are caught in a pandemic vise ...
El Paso has settled into a “new normal” with COVID-19, with a few hundred new cases each week, hospitalizations inching downward and a slowing rate of vaccinations. Because of this, we’re going to suspend our ...
El Paso County’s population grew by just over 5% in the past decade, a historically slow growth rate that could have political and financial implications for years to come, according to new Census Bureau population ...
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