El Paso appears headed to one of its hottest years on record. If that happens, 2020 will join the four preceding years in that category. Through November, El Paso’s average temperature for the year has ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso County is down for a second consecutive week, but we’re still averaging more than 1,000 new cases a day, an alarming rate of spread in a ...
A surge in young voters propelled El Paso to a record-shattering turnout in the 2020 presidential election, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting data shows. Despite being engulfed by the worst COVID-19 outbreak ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso this past week dropped for the first time in two months but remains alarmingly high. The coming days and weeks will be among the most painful ...
In August, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush demanded leadership changes at the Ambrosio Guillen State Veterans Home after an El Paso Matters story raised questions about the COVID-19 death of a World War II ...
El Paso continues to set records for the number of COVID-19 cases, patients in hospitals, and deaths. The crisis probably will deepen in the coming weeks. El Paso once again set a weekly high for ...
Four El Paso bars and restaurants had their liquor licenses suspended by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission last week for violating COVID-19 health orders. The actions were part of an enforcement surge by TABC as ...
State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, filed paperwork on Election Day seeking to be Texas’ next speaker of the House of Representatives. If he is selected by House colleagues, Moody would be the first Latino ...
El Paso continues to be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 crisis. We had more than 25,000 new cases in October, more than all the earlier months of the pandemic combined. While much public attention has been ...
Younger and infrequent voters drove El Paso’s record-shattering early voting turnout, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. El Paso Matters modeling shows that by the times polls close on Tuesday, somewhere between 280,000 and 300,000 ...
On Sunday, El Paso health officials probably will announce that COVID deaths have surpassed 600 (it’s 599 today by the city’s count and 623 by the state’s count). It’s increasingly likely that El Paso will ...
El Paso’s 2020 election’s early voting season closes today in the midst of a devastating pandemic. More than 204,000 El Pasoans have voted so far, a record by far. If 14,000 people vote today, El ...
The owner of a West El Paso bar/restaurant said state officials suspended his liquor license for 30 days on Thursday after a bartender briefly lowered her mask to talk to a customer. The suspension of ...
Mayor Dee Margo accused city Rep. Peter Svarzbein — who lost family in the Holocaust — of proposing “Gestapo-like tactics” when he advocated for closing off inside dining at restaurants for two weeks to slow ...
El Pasoans still holding mail ballots for Tuesday’s election should bring them to the County Courthouse rather than entrusting them to the Postal Service, El Paso’s top election official said. “I would say Downtown is ...
Despite the worst COVID-19 outbreak among major U.S. cities, El Paso is poised to shatter turnout records as we head into the last week of early voting. Almost 165,000 El Pasoans cast absentee and early ...
El Paso is in the midst of perhaps the greatest challenge in our history. That’s saying something for a community that’s responded to a terrorist attack and humanitarian crisis in the past two years. Our ...
El Paso reported 1,161 new COVID-19 cases Thursday morning, a horrific number in a deepening public health crisis that is threatening countless lives. The number of new positive tests reported by the Department of Public ...
El Paso likely will shatter election turnout records this year, due in large part to an influx of early voters who didn’t cast ballots in the 2016 presidential race. Isabelle Chavira of Central El Paso ...
NOTE: This story has been updated to include early votes cast through Sunday, Oct. 18. A massive influx of new voters is driving El Paso to a likely record turnout in the Nov. 3 general ...
El Paso County once again shattered its weekly high for new COVID-19 cases, leading local officials to impose new measures meant to slow the spread of the disease. More than 4,000 new cases were reported ...
One key question about the record-setting surge in El Paso early voting is whether it’s new people coming to the polls or regular voters just casting ballots earlier. So far, new and infrequent voters are ...
El Paso County’s record-shattering first-day turnout included more than 4,200 people who registered to vote after the last presidential election, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting records. El Pasoans who registered ...
El Paso County shattered records on Tuesday for the first day of early voting, according to preliminary numbers from the El Paso County Elections Office. Almost 19,000 people voted in person in the county on ...
El Paso Matters will be providing demographic updates of the county’s voting patterns through the election season. We’ll start with a look at who is eligible to vote in the election. El Paso’s youngest and ...
El Paso County had its highest number yet — by far — of new weekly COVID-19 cases this past week, and explanations offered by public health officials suggest our situation may continue to deteriorate. El ...
El Paso County’s two jails are experiencing another wave of COVID-19 cases, with 30 inmates and five detention officers having current active cases as of Wednesday, state records show. The jails had reported nine active ...
Microsoft is providing money and technology support to news organizations in El Paso-Ciudad Juárez and three other communities as part of an effort to bolster journalism, the company announced Wednesday. “The first focus area of ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to perform an adequate search for records sought by an El Paso nonprofit legal organization and didn’t justify redactions in some of the documents it did release, a federal judge ...
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El Paso County’s number of new COVID-19 cases declined for a third straight week, and the number of hospitalizations has consistently stayed below 1,000 for the first time since the beginning of November. The trend ...