The mulberry is a storied tree in El Paso. El Pasoans have tales of either sitting under their shady boughs or being frustrated with the allergies the trees cause in the spring. And there are also ...
The state governments of Texas and New Mexico have spent more than $30 million combined on legal fees in the fight over Rio Grande water, which is now before the United States Supreme Court. Invoices ...
No one went down to the river to pray. A planned binational Mass traditionally held on the banks of the Rio Grande was relocated to El Punto in Ciudad Juárez earlier this month after U.S. federal ...
The Public Service Board voted unanimously to reinstate emergency policy conditions for El Paso Water that allow the utility’s CEO to enter into contracts without PSB oversight. The resolution approved Wednesday also waives state requirements ...
El Paso Water has started a second phase of a plan to clean up the raw sewage in the Rio Grande flowing from broken sewage mains on the West Side. The utility aims to remove ...
El Paso Water will provide an update on the months-long effort to stop wastewater from flowing into the Rio Grande at the Rio Grande Citizens Forum Thursday evening during a meeting hosted by the United States ...
Correction: El Paso Water officials misstated the number of gallons of raw sewage released per day. The correct figure is 10 million. When it comes to the raw sewage flowing into the Rio Grande, utility ...
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 ...
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 untreated sewage from West El Paso has crawled about 20 miles downstream to just outside the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park. But that’s where it will stop. El Paso Water officials said they are working ...
President Joe Biden appointed Maria-Elena Giner, a civil engineer and long-time leader on border sanitation projects, as the new commissioner of the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission. The federal agency – binationally operated by the ...
An 8-year-old Supreme Court lawsuit about a dispute over groundwater pumping on the Rio Grande between Texas and New Mexico is making its way to trial. Texas alleges in the lawsuit that New Mexico farmers’ ...
Flushing the toilet, taking a shower or using the sink generates wastewater, a process that usually goes forgotten, unless storage and treatment fails — then sewage is often too noticeable. Several major pipe ruptures mean ...
More than 150 million gallons of sewage from El Paso’s West Side is flowing into the Rio Grande. The wastewater, which includes waste from toilets, showers and sink drains, is untreated. While that amount only ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Aug. 9 released a report on the impacts of climate change and how human activity is contributing to “unprecedented” and rapid change to the Earth’s climate. ...
The Southwestern United States is on the frontlines of climate change and the decades-long effects on the El Paso area will likely worsen, local and regional experts said, unless international governments curb fossil fuel emissions. ...
Whatever the weather, John Fausett sings. The longtime meteorologist has composed songs about heat waves, blizzards, storm spotters and “one team working together” at the El Paso National Weather Service forecast office in Santa Teresa. ...
Decades-long efforts to protect Castner Range, a portion of the Franklin Mountains, have been hampered by danger from the old Army unexploded ordnance in the Chihuahuan Desert. However, conservation groups and U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, ...
Sunny skies returned to El Paso this week after Sunday’s monsoon storm that left parts of the city’s East Side submerged in floodwater. But water safety experts and city officials cautioned that still waters still ...
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 ...
With an uncertain monsoon season ahead, weather experts warn another round of wet weather in El Paso could mean additional flooding in the Sun City through the rest of the summer. Meteorologist Anthony Brown with ...
By Alan G. Parsons As information regarding the proposed site for the new combined training facility for the fire and police department has become available to the public, I have some strong opinions and ideas ...
ANAPRA, MEXICO — Elena Moreno has lived in this impoverished neighborhood in Ciudad Juárez for nearly 30 years. She’s raised six children, seen politicians come and go and survived waves of violence. But one thing ...
ANAPRA, Mexico — The days-long blackouts are costly for the families in Pastor Ismael Martinez’s care as they result in spoiled food, ruined appliances and water shortages. Martinez operates Pan de Vida, a migrant shelter ...
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego has approved the sale and use of most fireworks in the unincorporated areas of the county after the recent rainfall in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. This is ...
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By Jack Loveridge Central El Paso’s Manhattan Heights and Military Heights neighborhoods feature some of the city’s top architectural treasures, but ineffective storm drainage and deadly street flooding are elements of our history that aren’t ...