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, ...
Three journalists with ties to El Paso have joined the El Paso Matters team, CEO Robert Moore said. Elida S. Perez, René Kladzyk and Claudia Tristán were hired after a search that drew more than ...
The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank hopes to continue a pilot program to deliver thousands of emergency food boxes to vulnerable families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May, more than 2,000 food boxes have ...
El Paso’s sports scene, as in other cities across the United States, has taken a backseat because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The El Paso Locomotive, though, is getting ready to get back in action. It’s ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Two college students have joined the El Paso Matters team for the summer to enhance our data efforts and build our audience engagement. Michaela Román Michaela Román is a UTEP graduate now pursuing a masters ...
El Paso journalist Robert Moore is among a group of investigative reporters who received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award on Thursday for a series of stories on the U.S. Border Patrol. Moore, the founder ...
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 ...
As testing increases in El Paso, contact tracing is the next critical step to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the border, those close contacts can include relatives, friends and coworkers in two countries. “This ...
El Paso Matters is seeking several full-time journalists to help tell the important stories of a major binational community. Ideal candidates understand the uniqueness of the U.S.-Mexico border region. Bilingual English-Spanish speakers preferred. Multimedia, data ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling out a series of programs to support food producers whose operations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but small food producers may be falling through the cracks. ...
Frustrated with a lack of action from government officials to provide assistance to immigrant farmworkers and undocumented familes that serve El Paso, three organizations have started a GoFundMe to make an immediate difference. Agricultural workers ...
I just returned from taking an airplane trip to another state in America and made it back to El Paso safely. Go ahead and make your snarky comments about how unsafe I was for flying ...
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 ...
Loading…
This story is republished with permission from La Verdad, an independent news organization in Ciudad Juárez. By Itzel Ramírez and Gabriela Minjáres/La Verdad On the production lines of the Regal Planta CASA maquiladora in Ciudad Juárez, where ...
As the number of El Pasoans filing unemployment claims continues to rise, there is another number rising, too — people in need of food. Thousands of people from the Upper Valley to the Lower Valley ...
More than 50,000 El Pasoans have filed new unemployment claims since mid-March as COVID-19 continues to ravage the economy, according to Workforce Solutions Borderplex. About 357,000 El Pasoans were employed as of February, according to ...
By Jim Ward My name is Jim Ward. I own a restaurant and I am angry. We know this virus is incredibly contagious and that limiting exposure is the best chance we have to keep ...
Cover illustration by Ana Gaby Becerra Data in this story is the most recently available as of Wednesday, May 20. Friday marks nine weeks since El Paso’s first reported COVID-19 case, and two weeks since ...
El Paso restaurant owners are taking different approaches to opening their doors on Friday after Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to reopen a select number of Texas businesses even as local COVID-19 case numbers keep rising. ...
UPDATE: Sammy Carrejo, the organizer of the “Open Texas” rally, posted video on Facebook on Monday of police officers coming to his house to issue him a citation for not having a required permit and ...
By Gabriela Minjáres and Itzel Ramírez/La Verdad This article was produced by La Verdad, an independent news organization in Ciudad Juarez that is collaborating with El Paso Matters on regional coverage. Rigoberto Tafoya Maqueda, a ...
El Paso’s Tigua Indians have suffered another major defeat in their decades-long efforts to conduct gambling at their Speaking Rock Entertainment Center. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April ...
Raul Rosales, a supervisor at a Lear Corporation maquiladora in Ciudad Juárez, died in an El Paso hospital of COVID-19 early Tuesday. “My father became an angel this morning,” Monica Rosales said in announcing his ...
El Paso’s iconic independent publishing company Cinco Puntos Press has taken a significant financial hit amid the economic shutdown caused by the spread of the novel coronavirus — and they are asking the community for ...
As he struggled to breathe in a Ciudad Juárez hospital, Raul Rosales and his wife Claudia exchanged messages saying good-bye. Their daughter Monica texted heart emojis and photos of his grandson Matias. “My baby is ...
El Paso restaurant owners have had to take a hard look at how they are responding to decreased sales and changes in food delivery operations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. It’s also affecting ...
Borderland Coronavirus Updates
Messages for Graduates
Graduation Video Special: Notable El Pasoans and Juarenses salute our community graduates
El Paso Matters Voters Guide
Your guide for the July 14, 2020, Republican and Democratic runoff elections in El Paso County. It includes:
- How candidates responded to our questionnaires on key issues
- Where to find sample ballots
- Voting locations and methods
- Important dates
Become a Supporting Member
El Paso needs a nonprofit, member-supported digital news organization that dives into the complex issues shaping our region – and serves as a catalyst for solutions-oriented conversations. You can help by becoming a member of El Paso Matters today.
To donate, go to epcf.org/epmatters.
Tips, Submissions
Do you have a story tip you’d like El Paso Matters to pursue? A press release you’d like to share? A commentary you’d like us to publish? Send your ideas or submissions to news@elpasomatters.org.
By Rosemary Marin Two weeks ago, the unemployment rate in El Paso hit a historic high of 15 percent. Since COVID-19 began in our region, more than 50,000 people have filed unemployment claims, while hundreds ...