At 7 years old, Wilbur Coleman III, commonly known as “Bookie,” can say he is the founder of his own company. “This was all his idea,” said Chereè Coleman, Bookie’s mother and co-founder of Bookie ...
After being featured at this year’s New York Fashion Week in September, Imperial Legacy Clothing, an El Paso-based, Black-owned business, is experiencing an increase in growth and recognition. “It was amazing, it was crazy. We ...
Paulina Reza boarded a flight from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso in spring 2020. She flew from Ciudad Juárez to Mexico City, to Los Angeles, to Houston, and finally to El Paso, all so that ...
Texans could see higher fees on their natural gas bills as early as next month, an effort to reimburse nine utilities for costs incurred during Winter Storm Uri in February. The three-member Texas Railroad Commission, ...
By Iván Gómez Cruz/La Verdad CIUDAD JUAREZ – Although Lara has not been able to cross the border for her job cleaning houses for 20 months, the 45-year-old woman said she never lost contact with ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times The United States has reopened the border to vaccinated Mexican tourists. Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday (midnight in the Eastern time zone), El Paso’s three 24-hour international ports of entry ...
After nearly 20 months of border-travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials offered details Friday about Monday’s reopening of ports of entry to “non-essential travel” for vaccinated foreign nationals. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday, ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times Kelly Maing, 46, has spent much of her life working in the Downtown El Paso clothing store started 33 years ago by her parents, who emigrated from South Korea. “See ...
Along the border, residents and businesses are counting the days until the pandemic-related travel restrictions are lifted, allowing all fully vaccinated visitors to cross into the United States on Nov. 8. “We’re all excited that ...
UPDATE, 4:05 p.m. Nov. 2: Under the settlement between Texas Gas Service and the City of El Paso approved by an administrative law judge Tuesday, El Paso residents will pay a monthly fee of $5.22 ...
By JC Navarette/ABC-7 For nearly two years, land borders between Mexico and the United States have been closed to all non-essential travel. Air borders between the countries, though, have fallen in a grey area — ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times At midnight on Monday, Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lifts the restrictions to “non-essential” traffic at the U.S.-Mexico border. That means that Mexican nationals with a valid border crossing card ...
By Veronica Martinez/La Verdad and Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times ENSENADA, Mexico — Kurt Turgasen took a swig from a cold Pacifico at a beachside bar lined with tourists speaking English, watching replays of NFL games. Pandemic ...
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 ...
ORALE, a discount clothing store on El Paso Street that sits just steps away from the Paso del Norte Bridge, has long-relied on foot traffic from Mexican consumers to stay afloat. Like many of the ...
The United States will lift pandemic travel restrictions at border crossings with Mexico next month, reopening the border to fully vaccinated individuals and ending a virtual shutdown that separated families and hurt businesses that relied ...
The days of dialing seven digits to call your fellow El Pasoans are coming to an end. Beginning Oct. 25, all local calls in El Paso will require 10 digits — the 915 area code, ...
A U.S. Supreme Court case over how water from the Rio Grande is allocated is underway and may finally put an end to a years-long dispute over how border states use the precious resource. The ...
By Sara Sanchez/El Paso Inc. TRINIDAD, Colorado – When Shawn Tatum was first on his way to Trinidad five years ago, he realized he made a mistake. He meant to travel from Virginia to the ...
Updated Oct. 12 at 1:57 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect the El Paso City Council vote. The El Paso City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to purchase the building that housed ...
Attorneys laid out their arguments Monday during the first day of a virtual trial in a lawsuit over Rio Grande water with Texas and the federal government alleging that New Mexico’s use of groundwater cut ...
There are bodies of water and governmental bodies, and the El Paso Public Service Board is an intersection of both. The seven-member board, composed of six members appointed by the City Council plus the mayor, ...
The printing press behind El Paso City Hall that produces the El Paso Times ceases production Monday. Beginning Tuesday, the newspaper will be printed just a few miles away — and across the international boundary ...
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 ...
Despite the long lines outside the area’s only food bank, officials there said they will consider cutting more programs and continue current closures if they don’t receive additional funds and more volunteers. Susan Goodell, the ...
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 ...
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