Note: This is the second of a two-part series on groundwater in the El Paso region. Read part one here. As climate change has altered El Paso’s access to water, the need for increased treatment ...
The Department of Homeland Security began the reimplementation of Migrant Protection Protocols in El Paso Monday after a federal judge forced the Biden administration to revive the controversial immigration policy commonly also known as “remain ...
Note: This is the first in a series about the groundwater in the Borderland. The second installment examining groundwater solutions will publish later this month. Sluggish waters flow and pool beneath the Borderland, offering water ...
The sole copy of author Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer: A Memoir” hasn’t been displayed on Canutillo High School library’s shelves for more than a month. For now, it’s stored in an administrator’s office while it ...
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols — commonly referred to as ‘remain in Mexico’ — will be re-implemented in El Paso and other border communities Monday. The Trump-era ...
The city likely will pursue more federal funding for a Downtown deck plaza after it received a $900,000 grant for a design study for the project that previously had no identified funding sources. The U.S. ...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could put an end to Roe v. Wade, and three months after Texas’ six-week abortion ban became law, another anti-abortion measure ...
El Pasoans could see an average increase of $6.37 on their monthly water bills after El Paso Water officials proposed increasing rates for the seventh consecutive year. CEO John Balliew presented the proposed budget to ...
What was supposed to be a routine search by Mexican National Guard troops is under investigation after an 18-year-old U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Ciudad Juárez. Juan Carlos Medina died near the Paso ...
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 ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Vicente Ruiz touched the handmade bracelets he carried on a display board as he walked up and down Avenida Juárez. “My grandmother used to sew by hand,” Ruiz said. “I would ask ...
At 7 years old, Wilbur Coleman III, commonly known as “Bookie,” can say he is the founder of his own company. “This was all his idea,” said Chereè Coleman, Bookie’s mother and co-founder of Bookie ...
Winston Churchill once remarked, “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” In El Paso, the buildings that help set the stages of our lives contain their own special histories and reflect the complex local ...
This story has been updated with data through Saturday, Nov. 27. El Paso County is seeing another surge in cases of COVID-19 this month with the El Paso Department of Public Health reporting more than ...
After being featured at this year’s New York Fashion Week in September, Imperial Legacy Clothing, an El Paso-based, Black-owned business, is experiencing an increase in growth and recognition. “It was amazing, it was crazy. We ...
More than a decade after the most violent years of Juárez’s drug wars, “international attention is not focused on Juárez anymore. Yet the drumbeat of thousands of people killed every year continues,” said UTEP anthropology ...
Family violence cases and sexual assaults have reached their highest levels since at least 2018, according to nearly four years of data from the El Paso Police Department. So far, 2021 has topped the numbers ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has the highest percentage of Hispanic tenured faculty among the nation’s largest research universities, according to the most recent national data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. ...
A new classroom building at El Paso Community College’s Mission del Paso campus will provide students with increased learning space and resources to accommodate the anticipated growing population of East El Paso. The new building, ...
This story has been updated with data as of Saturday, Nov. 20. El Paso children ages 5 to 11 are being vaccinated against COVID-19 at the highest rate among Texas’ largest counties. As of Saturday, ...
Teachers, parents, alumni and taxpayers won’t see an El Pasoan lead the county’s largest school district, though that was a top ask from the public at community input sessions held at high schools across El ...
Paulina Reza boarded a flight from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso in spring 2020. She flew from Ciudad Juárez to Mexico City, to Los Angeles, to Houston, and finally to El Paso, all so that ...
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 ...
At 34, Robin Krasne’s aunt died of breast cancer. Her father and grandfather died of brain cancer. For her uncle, it was pancreatic cancer. For her cousin, ovarian cancer. “I have way too much cancer in ...
The El Paso Independent School District named a new superintendent late Monday, despite calls for the school board to suspend its search after names of the finalists were leaked to the press and concerns emerged ...
El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke announced Monday he is running for governor of Texas, ending months of speculation over whether he would seek the nomination and challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. “I don’t know that ...
An El Paso Independent School District trustee was hired earlier this year by a Central Texas superintendent who is now a finalist for the EPISD superintendent’s job. Trustee Leah Hanany does communications for the Marlin ...
The El Paso Border Patrol Sector saw staggering increases in migrant deaths and rescues in fiscal year 2021, reflecting national trends of a deadly year for migrants, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border ...
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 ...
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