Although COVID-19 is the concern for many parents as children prepare to return to classrooms in the coming weeks, the threat of influenza also looms, an El Paso pediatrician says. Unlike the novel coronavirus, a ...
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions have not only affected lawful cross-border activity, but also illicit border crossings, including smuggling operations. Borderwide drug smuggling arrests of U.S. citizens have increased 47 percent this fiscal year. Since March ...
Hospice care agencies have had to adjust their employees’ and volunteers’ work schedules and services with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the border region. People in the latter days of their lives receive care, compassion, and ...
El Paso’s number of new COVID-19 cases declined for the fifth consecutive week, and hospitalizations for the novel coronavirus showed little change over the past week. This coming week should provide some indications of whether ...
El Paso Matters is working on a story about the role pets have played during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can help us by sharing your experiences. Loading… Cover photo: Ivan Hernandez, 10, accompanied by his ...
El Pasoans feeling their jeans fitting a little tight these days may have fallen victim to another aspect of the pandemic — weight gain, also being referred to as the “quarantine 15.” The 15 refers ...
El Paso firefighters and police issued more citations for violations of pandemic health orders over the Labor Day weekend than they had over the three previous months combined, officials said Thursday. From Sept. 4-7, “we ...
Although the global COVID-19 pandemic is undeniably awful, a silver lining can be glimpsed through rapid innovation in medical technologies, underscoring the extent of human ingenuity when confronted with crisis. El Paso health officials say ...
As families have been maneuvering through the COVID-19 pandemic, the social isolation of staying home may also be leading to strain on the mental health of children and adolescents. Dr. Sarah Martin, child and adolescent ...
El Paso continued on its promising downward trend with COVID-19 over the past week. Now, we wait and see what impact the Labor Day weekend and the reopening of schools will have on that trend. ...
A state attorney general ruling will allow the city of El Paso to withhold the names of facilities where COVID-19 outbreaks. A Houston attorney with extensive experience in transparency laws criticized the ruling. “The AG ...
As El Paso enters the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease expert Dr. Ogechika Alozie talks about the importance of not letting one’s guard down when it comes to navigating life during the ...
Francisco “Paco” Isais, 71, an employee of The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus, died on Aug. 5 of COVID-19. His wife Martha, 66, said that if the testing process at University Medical Center had been ...
The number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in El Paso appear to have stabilized at levels just above what we saw in mid-June, before the summer explosion of new cases. New cases this past week ...
As the El Paso City Council remains divided on whether to identify facilities where there have been COVID-19 outbreaks, state agencies in Texas and around the country are beginning to share the information regularly. Opponents ...
On May 29, the managers of two Central El Paso bars were each given a pair of citations for violating El Paso’s pandemic health orders requiring social distancing and limiting bar capacity. That brought the ...
Businesses on both sides of the Paso del Norte Bridge, reliant on foot traffic of border-crossers who stop and shop, have been hit hard by the border shutdown. The longer the border remains closed, the ...
This story has been updated with information from a letter sent Tuesday to Eugene Forti’s family from the Veterans Land Board. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has ordered a leadership shake-up at the Ambrosio ...
Eugene Forti survived repeated combat missions in World War II riding in a glass bubble of a ball turret, manning the anti-aircraft gun of a U.S. bomber. And it appeared that, at age 96, he ...
El Paso County’s COVID-19 situation appears to have retreated to levels of late spring, before an explosion of new cases tripled the number of infections over the first eight weeks of summer. Numbers of new ...
Story by Corrie Boudreaux and Angela Kocherga for El Paso Matters CIUDAD JUAREZ – As the first day of classes neared, violinist Rodrigo Cardona Cabrera was filled with anticipation. After years of hard work and ...
The El Paso County Public Defender’s Office has been roiled in recent weeks by what many in the office saw as an effort to reprimand two attorneys for saying the county wasn’t doing enough to ...
It’s hard to believe three months have passed since I started my journey into pandemic-induced vegetable gardening. I was never someone that thought about growing my own food before COVID-19 came to town, but that ...
On Thursday Aug. 13, El Paso Matters held a conversation with some of our public school superintendents, administrators, teachers and parents. El Paso Matters CEO Robert Moore moderated a conversation with Socorro Independent School District ...
FORT HANCOCK, Texas — Rural schools along the U.S.-Mexico border face challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic that are common to small, isolated districts across the United States — broadband access and other digital divide issues, ...
Krista Brooker has been wondering if she needs to find a new job. As a clinical supervisor, Brooker has asked her employer if she can bring her kids — one in elementary school and the ...
This story has been updated with new data and comments. The Texas Department of State Health Services failed to notify El Paso health officials of almost 900 positive COVID-19 cases since late June, part of ...
As the sun beat down over El Paso, adrenaline pulsed through Nickie Monroe and her daughter Bailey. The mother-daughter duo were on a hunt of sorts. “It was super exciting, way more exciting than I ...
By Samuel Licón Kligman A year ago, I was enjoying those fading moments of summer before the start of a new school year. I was, like most of my friends, anxious and excited about the ...
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