A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false records suggesting he was monitored ...
Ten El Pasoans will be featured at this month’s Texas Tribune Festival, an annual gathering focused on politics, public policy and current events. The event, normally held in Austin, is being conducted virtually Sept. 20-25 ...
Despite classes resuming last month for the new academic school year, El Paso Community College is still working on bringing students back. “We saw excellent gains in enrollment (but) we’re not exactly where we want ...
Viewed from above, the two sites housing foreign nationals on Fort Bliss look similar. They’re both a maze of white tents plopped onto a dusty desert terrain, with tiny specks of humans bustling in between. ...
Upper Valley homeowner Perla Aguilera will have to reevaluate her family’s spending habits as she prepares to pay higher property taxes this year. Like thousands of El Pasoans, Aguilera saw a spike in her home ...
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is offering COVID-19 booster shots to adults this weekend in an effort to use 1,200 Pfizer doses set to expire at the end of the month. People ...
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 ...
Esperanza Para Todos on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez needs more beds. It needs portable toilets and showers, too. Like many of the shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Esperanza Para Todos is straining to keep up ...
By Karen Brooks Harper/The Texas Tribune El Paso resident Carlos Martinez was relieved in June when the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths were dropping in his community. Martinez, 25, started going to restaurants for ...
In the Valley of Juárez, a seemingly tranquil arroyo has been the site of carnage, a place where the remains of at least 24 murdered women were found between 2008 and 2013. Their families strive ...
Nearly 10,000 Afghans are currently being housed at the Doña Ana Range Complex on Fort Bliss, 35 miles north of Downtown El Paso, the post commander said during a press conference Friday. The complex has undergone ...
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 ...
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” ...
By Verónica Martínez / La Verdad A decision by Mexico’s National Supreme Court of Justice that declares the criminalization of abortion in Mexico unconstitutional opens a new window for Borderland women, who for decades have ...
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 ...
El Paso school districts have been slow to decide whether they’ll offer full-time virtual learning now that state lawmakers guaranteed districts will receive state funding for it — making what otherwise would have been a ...
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 ...
A large family from Michoacan, Mexico walked across the Paso del Norte international bridge into Downtown El Paso on the morning of Sept. 1, clutching papers with proof of negative COVID-19 tests and guided by ...
With all eyes on the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, another bill regulating the use and distribution of abortion medications — and creating a jailable offense for those who ...
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 El Paso City Attorney’s Office use of a provision of the Texas Public Information Act that allowed it to delay responding to open records requests has ended. The move comes after state lawmakers made ...
Correction: This story has been updated to clarify that the temporary injunction applies to Dr. Hector Ocaranza’s original county-wide indoor mask mandate. El Paso’s universal indoor face mask mandate can be reinstated, a judge ruled ...
A new firm was selected Thursday to lead the search for the El Paso Independent School District’s superintendent after the school board ended a previous contract last month. The EPISD Board of Trustees voted 6-1 ...
A major effort is underway at Fort Bliss to support the growing numbers of refugees arriving from Afghanistan, and some local groups are now asking the El Paso community to help. “As we always do, ...
Sept. 1 of every odd-numbered year marks for Texans the day hundreds of new laws will go into effect after being passed by the Texas Legislature the previous spring. The 87th Legislature concluded in May ...
City officials will withhold the details of its two top executives’ annual performance evaluations after a ruling from the Texas attorney general gave them the option whether to disclose the documents based on “attorney-client privilege” ...
By Victoria Rossi/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad This story is the final installment of a three-part series that explores the exchange of abortion services between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. The fight against ...
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 ...
By Victoria Rossi/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad This story is the second installment of a three-part series that explores the exchange of abortion services between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. As a consequence ...
In 2004, August was nationally recognized as Black Business Month after historian John William Timpleton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan Sr. led an effort to raise awareness about Black-owned businesses and their contributions to the ...
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