District Attorney-elect Yvonne Rosales has told dozens of attorneys and staff that they will be out of a job when she takes office Jan. 1. The attorneys handling the prosecution of the Walmart mass shooting ...
An El Paso immigrant detention facility has the largest current detainee COVID-19 outbreak of any Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in the United States. As of Nov. 30, 44 detainees at El Paso Service Processing ...
El Paso appears headed to one of its hottest years on record. If that happens, 2020 will join the four preceding years in that category. Through November, El Paso’s average temperature for the year has ...
Supporting small businesses is more critical this year than ever before, as so many local vendors have struggled to survive through the pandemic. Some El Pasoans are opting to shop local this holiday season, seeking ...
El Paso’s low-income neighborhoods bore a disproportionate share of El Paso’s fall COVID-19 explosion, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. Advocates for low-income families said a variety of challenges face those areas, including many essential ...
The Lopez family always gets together to celebrate holidays and important events. They are a big family, and on a typical Thanksgiving day, cousins cross over from Juárez, kids fly in from out of state, ...
Election season isn’t over yet in El Paso. A handful of local races weren’t decided on Nov. 3 and will be settled in the Dec. 12 runoff election. At the top of the ballot is ...
The letters pouring out from El Paso’s ICE immigration detention facility all begin the same way: “To Whom It May Concern.” Open letters, they are sent to the world at large, scrawled in careful cursive ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso County is down for a second consecutive week, but we’re still averaging more than 1,000 new cases a day, an alarming rate of spread in a ...
This story has been updated with comment from Mayor Dee Margo. In a nationally televised interview, El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said El Paso is facing a COVID-19 crisis because Hispanics are far more likely ...
A young family lost their husband and father to COVID-19. They are coping with grief as the holidays approach Erika Morales and her four young children are facing the holiday season without a key member ...
Jose “Jojo” Sanchez, beloved emergency room technician at Del Sol Medical Center, died from COVID-19 on Nov. 12 at age 74. Bearing a signature walrus mustache, a knowing sparkle in his eye, and a playful ...
El Paso Independent School District’s interim superintendent will be paid more than $300,000 annually under a contract unanimously approved by the school board this week. The board appointed Vince Sheffield interim superintendent Nov. 5, following ...
A surge in young voters propelled El Paso to a record-shattering turnout in the 2020 presidential election, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting data shows. Despite being engulfed by the worst COVID-19 outbreak ...
For the hundreds of El Pasoans grieving the death of a loved one to COVID-19, even the practice of mourning has been dramatically reconfigured because of the pandemic. El Paso religious leaders expressed sadness over ...
Juan Cabrera wasn’t the only El Paso Independent School District employee to help former school board president Dori Fenenbock launch an online school last year. She also turned to José López, the superintendent’s chief of ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso this past week dropped for the first time in two months but remains alarmingly high. The coming days and weeks will be among the most painful ...
A COVID-19 ICU nurse who waged her own battle against the virus for three grueling months now is working in El Paso to keep serving patients suffering from the disease. “I know that El Paso ...
As the COVID-19 death toll rises to previously unimaginable levels in El Paso, funeral directors are overwhelmed with bereaved families and are concerned that many El Pasoans aren’t taking the crisis seriously. “I just urge ...
As El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis continues, an emergency medicine expert warns hospitals may run out of space to treat those affected by the pandemic. State and federal agencies have sent a wave of medical personnel ...
As El Pasoans find virtual ways to celebrate Veterans Day this year, the loved ones of recently deceased veterans face an added hardship: no military funeral honors at Fort Bliss National Cemetery until further notice. ...
Thirty-two-year old Juan Chico died of COVID-19 in an Austin hospital after his family agreed to have him flown out of an El Paso intensive care unit for treatment. Area hospitals and families that participate ...
In August, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush demanded leadership changes at the Ambrosio Guillen State Veterans Home after an El Paso Matters story raised questions about the COVID-19 death of a World War II ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar was elected to a second term in Congress last week with 64% of the vote. Her win wasn’t a surprise — Democrats have controlled Texas’ 16th Congressional District seat since 1965. ...
An ICU nurse left a grueling shift treating COVID-19 patients and was dismayed at what she saw as she drove through El Paso — full parking lots at shopping centers. “Does everyone need to see ...
Three City Council representatives asked for a special City Council meeting on Monday so they could criticize three colleagues for issuing a press release supporting County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s order to close many businesses because ...
El Paso continues to set records for the number of COVID-19 cases, patients in hospitals, and deaths. The crisis probably will deepen in the coming weeks. El Paso once again set a weekly high for ...
As El Paso has suffered one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, local jails and immigrant detention facilities have also struggled to control the spread of the virus among prisoners, detainees and staff. ...
Juan Cabrera’s seven-year tenure helming the El Paso Independent School District came to an abrupt end when the school board unanimously approved his resignation Thursday. Cabrera, who was hired in September 2013, had more than ...
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El Paso County’s number of new COVID-19 cases declined for a third straight week, and the number of hospitalizations has consistently stayed below 1,000 for the first time since the beginning of November. The trend ...