It took a 19-hour road trip earlier this week for Maria Aldama to cover the distance between Kansas City to El Paso. And for that, she was rewarded with a three-minute embrace with a mother ...
U.S. Catholic bishops voted on Friday for a proposal to create guidelines for communion, the first step in an effort that could bar the sacrament to President Joe Biden and other Catholic elected officials who ...
Update 5:27 p.m. June 18. Pfc. Christian Alvarado was found guilty by a military judge Friday afternoon of sexually assaulting Pfc. Asia Graham and another woman. He was acquitted on other two other sexual charges. ...
Multiple bills aimed at police reform introduced during Texas’ 87th Legislature failed to gain traction. while bills aimed to maintain police funding and to protect officers were signed into law. An El Paso City Council ...
As El Paso experiences a long-term heat wave with temperatures climbing above 100 degrees during an extreme drought, concerns increase about whether West Texas and parts of New Mexico could be without power at times. ...
Texas’ 2021 regular legislative session ended last month with lawmakers doing something education advocates initially feared wouldn’t happen: they passed a budget that kept the previous session’s funding gains in place.1 That sums up how ...
Leaders in El Paso’s LGBTQ+ community convened on Thursday for a discussion on the state of the local queer community, hosted by El Paso Matters. Coinciding with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the conversation covered several wide-ranging ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Shannon Ivey grew up alongside the pecan orchards on his family’s farm. Now 41, the fourth-generation pecan farmer recently walked under the shade of the nearly 50 year-old trees planted in the ...
The El Paso City Council will begin reviewing possible changes to the City Charter in an November 2022 amendment election after a city representative said voters should decide on whether to switch back to a ...
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state of Texas will take over construction of the border wall and that all trespassers caught on the state’s southern border will be prosecuted and jailed as his efforts ...
El Paso’s two largest districts are without a permanent superintendent heading into next school year, when thousands of students will return to campuses, many for the first time since March 2020. The El Paso Independent ...
El Paso’s June is heating up and the triple-digit heat wave expected to last through next week could pose a health threat to some of the city’s most vulnerable. To help counter the risks, the ...
Wendy Sandoval grabs pliers and tinkers with metal parts to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm in the opening scene of “Disrupted Borders,” a new documentary about a remarkable friendship between two El ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar is teaming up with the Texas Democratic Party on an ambitious voter registration push ahead of next year’s state and federal elections to help combat what she said is an attempt ...
Next month, Texas Tech University Heath Sciences Center will welcome its inaugural class into the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. The dental school will be the first of its kind in a border ...
As she prepared for her junior year as a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Carolina Mendez’s life was forever altered on July 3, 2019, when her father was diagnosed with pancreatic ...
By Veronica Martinez/La Verdad CIUDAD JUÁREZ – Angelica Ruiz crossed the border for her vaccine appointment at the El Paso County Coliseum in February. The Juárez native remembers that it took her less than half ...
The Newman 6 project will have its day in court. An administrative law judge ruled Thursday that the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, N.M., can move forward to challenge the state of ...
After being just shy of avoiding a runoff last month, Israel Irrobali comfortably won the race Saturday for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. He received 62% ...
El Paso’s temperature will top 100 degrees for the first time this year in the coming days, a mark that will likely be topped repeatedly over the next three months. Although El Pasoans have come ...
Following a drop in the city’s budget last year due to impacts of COVID-19, city officials are looking at increasing the budget for the 2022 fiscal year by about $33 million — a move that ...
The Rio Grande will be running in El Paso soon, as water was released Memorial Day from the Caballo Dam. The continued drought means a shorter irrigation season as less water made its way downstream ...
Juan Cabrera fired off a quick, two-line email last April, hours before the work week wrapped up. “We are official!!! Signed on page 22. Any other page?” It was 2:23 p.m. MST Friday, April 24, ...
For four decades, the Rev. Ed Roden-Lucero has influenced El Paso far beyond the walls of the parishes he pastored. He has been a key part of efforts to bring water and sewer services to ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court and the El Paso City Council are gearing up for the decennial task of redistricting political boundaries based on U.S. Census data — a move that could impact who ...
Join us for an online event in celebration of Pride Month, where we’ll discuss El Paso’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community. Panelists Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Adri Perez, and Diamond Briseño come from wide-ranging corners of El Paso’s ...
For now, the Rio Grande outside El Paso is a bare sandbed stretching miles, but in a couple days there’ll be water running in it again, albeit later than usual. For the people, wildlife and ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The figures in pale camouflage uniforms are visible in key spots along this border, from the fence jutting high above the desert in Anapra to the muddy banks of the shallow Rio ...
By David Crowder/El Paso Inc. Texas chambers of commerce and business leaders around the state, including some of the biggest companies in El Paso, are calling on Congress to establish a path to citizenship for ...
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By state Sens. César J. Blanco, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa and Judith Zaffirini Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently held a press conference to announce his plans for the state of Texas to build a physical border ...