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 ...
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 ...
Update 3:35 p.m. Nov. 11: The story has been updated with additional information about the ordinance, and with comment from city Rep. Cissy Lizarraga. The El Paso City Council voted to expand the areas where ...
Update 5:45 p.m. Nov. 10: On Wednesday, the day after the City Council vote on the arena, the El Paso-based 8th Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to grant Max Grossman’s appeal requesting an injunction on ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court adopted a new election map for the four commissioner precincts on Monday, concluding a months-long process to reestablish boundaries based on decennial U.S. census data. The map that was ...
El Paso County officials may put off the full reopening of its senior centers after a spike in COVID-19 cases among El Pasoans ages 60 and older. El Paso County COVID-19 data shows 304 new ...
UPDATE, 4:05 p.m. Nov. 2: Under the settlement between Texas Gas Service and the City of El Paso approved by an administrative law judge Tuesday, El Paso residents will pay a monthly fee of $5.22 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the Texas law that bans most abortions past six weeks and enlists private individuals as its enforcers. Two Trump-appointed justices who had initially allowed the ...
The dispute between the City of El Paso and the food bank is resolved. Officials announced in a joint press conference Thursday afternoon that both parties have settled the dispute over record keeping practices by ...
El Paso Water will provide an update on the months-long effort to stop wastewater from flowing into the Rio Grande at the Rio Grande Citizens Forum Thursday evening during a meeting hosted by the United States ...
There’s a cease-fire between the City of El Paso and the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank after last week’s dueling allegations that the food bank failed to keep proper documentation for spent coronavirus relief ...
The El Paso City Council is debating whether to expand the areas where open containers of alcohol are prohibited around homeless shelters — a move some local lawmakers say could criminalize homelessness. The Texas Alcoholic ...
This story has been updated to include comment from U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar. Attorneys General Ken Paxton of Texas and Eric Schmitt of Missouri visited the border wall at the western edge of El Paso ...
In a battle of press conferences Thursday, the City of El Paso and the area’s only food bank dueled over allegations that the nonprofit violated federal reporting requirements after it received coronavirus relief funds from ...
State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez may be gearing up to challenge state Rep. Art Fierro after Texas lawmakers drew her current district out of the Texas House redistricting plan. Ordaz Perez changed her voter registration ...
A congressional redistricting map that splits Fort Bliss between two congressional seats was given final approval by both chambers of the Texas Legislature Monday. It now goes to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature — ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether El Paso’s Tigua Indians can offer some forms of gambling on their land, setting the stage for an end to a nearly 30-year fight between ...
Updated October 17 at 6:05 PM: This story has been updated to reflect the Texas House vote. Legislation barring transgender children from participating in K-12 sports on teams that align with their gender identity gained ...
El Paso’s Texas House delegation failed to convince their Republican colleagues Tuesday to revise a proposed redistricting plan that pits incumbent El Paso Democrats against one another in next year’s election. The Texas House voted ...
By Reese Oxner/The Texas Tribune The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday temporarily allowed Texas’ near-total abortion ban — the strictest in the nation — to again be enforced after freezing a federal judge’s temporary block of the ...
Updated Oct. 12 at 1:57 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect the El Paso City Council vote. The El Paso City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to purchase the building that housed ...
The El Paso County Redistricting Advisory Commission is close to making a recommendation to the County Commissioners Court on how to redraw the boundaries for the four commissioner precincts. Voting boundaries for elected officials at ...
The first draft of a new Texas House map gives El Paso County less representation in the state Legislature’s lower chamber and pits two lawmakers who refused to end House Democrats’ quorum break against each ...
Texas Republicans released their first draft of a new state congressional map that reshapes El Paso’s two congressional seats. Fort Bliss would move from the 16th Congressional District to the 23rd Congressional District under the ...
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that could be disturbing to some readers. A federal judge ruled last month that an excessive force lawsuit against an El Paso Police officer will continue and be decided ...
Despite the long lines outside the area’s only food bank, officials there said they will consider cutting more programs and continue current closures if they don’t receive additional funds and more volunteers. Susan Goodell, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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