El Pasoans still have time to tell officials from El Paso Electric how they feel about the utility’s proposed double-digit rate increases for household electric bills. Every four years, Texas law requires utilities to evaluate the ...
An El Paso-based Black-owned business is getting national recognition this week during the iconic New York Fashion Week. Owned by brother-and-sister duo Faith and Marcus Smith, Imperial Legacy Clothing is featured in the “Emerging Artist” ...
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 ...
Both the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers shrunk in 2021, another bad water year in a two-decade megadrought brought on by a warming Western United States. Demands on the rivers — from growing cities, agriculture, ...
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 ...
In 2004, August was nationally recognized as Black Business Month after historian John William Timpleton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan Sr. led an effort to raise awareness about Black-owned businesses and their contributions to the ...
Update 12:50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27: Special Master Michael Melloy ruled Friday to split in half the trial for the long-running U.S. Supreme Court case over Rio Grande water between Texas and New Mexico. Melloy ...
Aug. 26 update: The six members of the El Paso state legislative delegation wrote a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday, urging him to reconsider his decision to relocate Texas National Guard from El ...
When Paulina del Pozo graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in industrial engineering, she knew she would have to leave her hometown in order to start her career. “I ...
The fight on Newman 6 is over. El Paso Electric and the coalition of community and environmental groups opposing the construction of the new methane power plant unit in Northeast El Paso announced an agreement ...
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 ...
By Dylan McKim/ABC-7 Businesses in all corners of the economy struggled during the pandemic as they struggled to keep their staffs employed and doors open. “It is definitely a year we would love to forget,” ...
One of El Paso’s largest food distribution sites will close and others will reduce hours despite the amplified need for food due to the pandemic, officials said, citing a lack of manpower. “We’re still able ...
By James K. Willcox/Consumer Reports Millions of Americans struggle to pay for fast internet service, or find that it’s not available where they live, a new Consumer Reports survey shows. The nationally representative survey of ...
El Paso Matters has received a $1 million grant from the American Journalism Project, the first news organization in Texas to win support from the nation’s largest journalism venture philanthropy organization. The American Journalism Project ...
After five years, Candy Gutierrez has grown used to the stress of being a single mom. There have been times when she’s worried she won’t make rent, or had to ask for help paying the ...
Until recently, the Figure 2 Ranch was best known as the site of the last Native American battle against the Texas Rangers. Mescalero Apaches fought under the banner of their recently deceased leader Victorio in ...
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 Matters is one of several local news organizations that is partnering with Consumer Reports, the nationally recognized nonprofit consumer advocacy publication, for the launch of the Broadband Together initiative, which seeks to uncover ...
TORNILLO — In the first Texas-based binational effort to vaccinate Mexican workers from U.S.-owned companies, more than 1,400 Juárez factory workers were vaccinated against coronavirus with unused Texas vaccines Tuesday. The launch of a cross-border ...
By Beto O’Rourke I’m from the border city of El Paso. My parents and grandparents, too. We trace our time in this region back to my great-grandparents, Irish immigrants who followed railroad jobs from Missouri, ...
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. ...
As El Paso child care providers struggle to restore services in a reopening economy, they’ve faced an unexpected source of competition for workers — the Fort Bliss emergency shelter for migrant children. Local non-profit providers ...
By Roman Ortiz Project ARRIBA came to fruition in 1998 to increase the educational attainment levels for an underemployed population living along the Borderplex region. Twenty-two years later, our results have positively affected the quality ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Shannon Ivey grew up alongside the pecan orchards on his family’s farm. Now 41, the fourth-generation pecan farmer recently walked under the shade of the nearly 50 year-old trees planted in the ...
The Newman 6 project will have its day in court. An administrative law judge ruled Thursday that the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, N.M., can move forward to challenge the state of ...
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 ...
By David Crowder/El Paso Inc. Texas chambers of commerce and business leaders around the state, including some of the biggest companies in El Paso, are calling on Congress to establish a path to citizenship for ...
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 ...
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By Kathy Staudt and Sarahí Soto-Talavera All of a sudden, people are talking about extremely low wages and unfilled employee vacancies in our region. Why? At one of the Corralito restaurants in El Paso, customers saw a ...