Updated 8:53 p.m. May 5 with additional details The Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees agreed to buy out Superintendent José Espinoza’s contract Wednesday evening, ending his nine-year tenure leading the county’s second largest ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has reached an agreement with Customs and Border Protection to allow parents of spring and summer graduates to cross the Juarez border so they can attend in-person commencement ...
A new exception to a Trump-era border policy has allowed some transgender people and other members of “vulnerable populations” to enter the United States and seek asylum, the Department of Homeland Security and migrant advocacy ...
Ana sat with her two children on a curb just steps from the Paso del Norte Bridge in downtown Ciudad Juárez, considering her options and crushing debt. “Truthfully, I’d like to try again,” said Ana, hours ...
When Miguel Venegas graduated from UTEP in December 2020 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he knew he was entering a job market as the world was grappling with a world-wide pandemic. But he was ...
One El Paso ISD school board incumbent was defeated Saturday and another re-elected. District 3 incumbent Josh Acevedo was re-elected to a spot on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees while District ...
Story by Lauren Villagran | Photos by Briana Sanchez, El Paso Times PECOS, Texas – Maria Baeza Valeriano opened her front door to the view of a closed-down hotel and an oil workers’ camp, where ...
El Paso shifted in recent days to something unthinkable just weeks earlier: wait lists are no more and people can visit a walk-up COVID-19 vaccination site. There are more shots than people wanting to get ...
Are you a first generation student graduating in the spring 2021 classes from University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College or Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso? As we prepare ...
Veteran border journalist Julián Aguilar is joining El Paso Matters as its first editor. Aguilar, an El Paso native and graduate of Burges High School, has covered border issues for the Texas Tribune since 2010. ...
With immigration omnipresent in international news headlines and El Paso-Juarez’s position as the literal stage on which policy debates take place, we thought it’d be a good time to provide a refresher on the vocabulary ...
Victoria Rossi — who has experience as a journalist, immigration paralegal and human rights researcher — will join El Paso Matters in June to report on the status of women in our area. The new ...
Houston preservationist J.P. Bryan has funded a legal battle against the city’s Downtown multipurpose arena and donated tens of thousands of dollars to El Paso City Council candidates in the last two elections. In March, ...
Almost 60% of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But getting shots into the arms of people not yet vaccinated will grow increasingly difficult. Even as vaccines ...
By Karen Cano/La Verdad This story was originally published in Spanish by La Verdad. Due to her age and the initial letter of her last name, Sonia Campos was assigned the morning schedule to receive ...
As more El Pasoans receive their COVID-19 vaccines, questions remain about what activities are safe to participate in following the two-week waiting period after the second doses. El Paso Matters asked local infectious disease experts ...
A few reminders of February’s cold snap stand sentry around El Paso — palm trees with brittle, brown fronds rattling in the springtime winds, some with new leaves peeking through. Area master gardeners and tree ...
At the height of the fall coronavirus case surge, a now-candidate seeking to represent Central El Paso families on the EPISD school board called into question the efficacy of face masks. “The masks are not ...
Mujer aún desconocida alrededor de 13 años localizada el 10-9-95 Lote Bravo. Carla Berges can’t find an explanation for the words she embroidered on a handkerchief-sized cloth panel to memorialize a victim of femicide in ...
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on all three counts stemming from last year’s murder of George Floyd. Here’s a sampling of reactions from El Pasoans. Abeni Merriweather, 19, sophomore, commercial music ...
Beto O’Rourke said he won’t make a decision on running for Texas governor in 2022 until later this year, but he definitely sounded like a candidate at times during a conversation with El Paso Matters. ...
For the first time in her life, Giselle Paredes needs help feeding her family. “Many times I don’t have something to cook so I’m like, ‘what am I going to do?’” Paredes said. “They’re hungry ...
Despite the windy Saturday morning, farmworkers waited outside the El Paso County Courthouse entrance to receive their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. El Paso-area farmworkers have not been prioritized to receive immunizations by ...
More than half of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and a third are fully vaccinated. Still, the number of new infections has been stuck at a high ...
Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees. Trustees play an important role in school districts. They ...
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies away from jail. Crisis intervention teams are designed to improve law enforcement officers’ ...
Tuesday’s recommendation to suspend the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines will have a slight impact on El Paso’s vaccination efforts, potentially making it more difficult to protect hard-to-reach populations. The state ...
When schools in McAllen moved online last spring, it became harder for Tiffany Torres-Gonzalez to attend class, even though her bedroom was now her classroom. She didn’t have internet at home and a district-issued mobile ...
Legislation that would categorize gender-affirming care for trans children as “child abuse” was discussed in a Texas Senate committee hearing Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from an El Pasoan parent. “I’m not an abuser, I’m ...
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The number of new COVID-19 infections and cases requiring hospital treatment in El Paso dropped in the past week to levels not seen in seven months. However, the number of El Pasoans getting vaccinated against ...