The University of Texas at El Paso’s computer systems have been disrupted since Friday by an “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion,” UTEP officials said. The intrusion forced the school to turn off servers for email ...
El Paso and other border cities will begin receiving planes full of migrants from the Rio Grande Valley on Monday for processing, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said. “What we are seeing is families continue ...
Last spring, Derek Hernandez sat his parents down and drew a two-column chart. On one side he listed what life would look like if he continued his education as a political science major at the ...
With the one year anniversary approaching since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in El Paso County, we want to share stories of all the ways El Pasoans have changed. Although this year has ...
A helicopter buzzes loudly overhead at the start of “Taste the Nation,” a 2020 food documentary TV series that centered its first episode on El Paso. “Hold that thought, I want to hear this really ...
As the Biden administration announced that the United States would begin to allow asylum seekers enrolled in Migrant Protection Protocols to cross the border, a rare sight spread across a migrant shelter in Juárez: Smiles ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is marked by glaring inequality, with about one in five first vaccines going to people in wealthier West El Paso ZIP codes, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of ...
By Patrick Svitek/Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that he is ending Texas’ statewide mask mandate next week and will allowall businesses to operate at full capacity. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott ...
A lawsuit by former state Rep. Joe Pickett alleges the city of El Paso is hiding tax increases in water bills, using a fee that purportedly is to pay for damages to streets caused by ...
Finding the perfect home can be quite a challenge. Add a pandemic into the mix and it might become a series of twists, turns or the perfect opportunity thanks to low interest rates. According to ...
For the refugees who have spent months (or even years) stuck waiting in Mexico in the dangerous Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, the art-covered walls of El Paso’s Casa del Refugiado are a colorful and ...
El Paso leads Texas urban counties in getting people vaccinated against COVID-19, but it is lagging some of those counties when it comes to vaccinating one of the groups most vulnerable to complications and death ...
U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez, a jurist who presided over several major cases in 19 years on the federal bench, died suddenly Friday night, friends and associates said. He was 63. Martinez grew up in ...
Each February, El Pasoans participate in Black History Month events like parades, art events, and much more. But many don’t know the long and rich history of El Paso’s African American community. From Buffalo Soldiers ...
Some El Paso librarians have been reinstated to their jobs, two days after the city sparked public outrage by sending them layoff notices. Sue Barnum, a longtime librarian who received a layoff notice on Wednesday ...
El Paso’s average weekly wage increased sharply as COVID-19 became entrenched and thousands of workers lost jobs, new federal data shows. Normally, a spike in average wages would be cause for celebration, but that’s not ...
Five city leadership executives received higher pay rates in October, triggering concerns among some city representatives who said they were not advised ahead of the changes. City executive pay raise data from March through January ...
The city of El Paso on Wednesday informed 75 furloughed employees — mostly library workers — that their jobs are being permanently eliminated. Officials said the employees would be offered other jobs in the city, ...
Every time Gina Ramos looks at her teddy bear, she remembers her father. The bear is a deep indigo color, made from one of her father’s shirts. “It’s a blue shirt I had given him ...
In the medical unit at an El Paso Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, sick detainees use a shared water fountain to take their medications. “I’m sure that they clean (the drinking fountain), but I’ve never ...
The Supreme Court on Monday gave El Paso’s Tigua Indians at least a small victory in their long-running gambling fight with the state of Texas, asking the Justice Department for the first time to weigh ...
For almost 30 years, El Paso has not had a dedicated reporter to the topic of higher education. This means there has been an accumulating gray area as to what higher education means for El ...
Close to 113,000 El Pasoans have received their first shot in the 10 weeks since COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Texas, something El Paso leaders have celebrated. “While we’re still a long way from herd immunity, ...
The number of new weekly COVID-19 infections in El Paso County reached the lowest levels since the early days of fall, a hopeful indication that we may finally be emerging from one of the country’s ...
By 7:30 a.m., cars were lined up around Horizon City’s Holy Spirit Church even though its food distribution site wouldn’t open for another 30 minutes. Virginia Marin and Martha Montellano took advantage of the wait ...
The safety of El Paso and border communities will be a priority as asylum seekers who had been trapped in Mexico are allowed to enter the United States, senior United Nations officials said in a ...
Parents the world over desire a secure environment in which to raise their children. For mothers like Fatima, it seems that security is a dream that exists just over the line that separates Mexico and ...
The El Paso Police Department can’t account for more than half the internal reports it says are regularly conducted to track performance, according to documents obtained by El Paso Matters through the Texas Public Information ...
El Paso Independent School District trustees on Tuesday narrowly rejected a move to switch school board elections from majority to plurality vote. The change would have done away with runoff elections, which trustees Daniel Call ...
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El Paso hit a series of COVID-19 milestones — both encouraging and tragic — in the week that Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he was ending most COVID-19 restrictions in the state. The number of ...