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 ...
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 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 ...
By Veronica Martinez/La Verdad and Victoria Rossi/El Paso Matters This three-part series explores the exchange of abortion services on the border. The proximity between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez allows opportunities to access reproductive health ...
A divided Texas 8th Court of Appeals struck down much of El Paso’s indoor mask mandate Friday, but left it intact for schools and city buildings. Public school students, teachers and staff will continue to ...
Update 4:10 p.m.: This story now includes comment from the ACLU. An El Paso federal judge on Thursday issued an injunction blocking Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that barred aid groups and others from transporting ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down — at least temporarily — San Antonio’s mask mandate for school districts and government buildings. The high court ruling has no impact on El Paso because the ...
The reinstatement of the controversial “remain in Mexico” program was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday after it denied an appeal by the Biden administration. The judge’s order forces the administration to begin reimplementing ...
The total capacity for Afghan refugees who will be temporarily housed at Fort Bliss and other U.S. military bases will increase to 50,000, Col. Martin L. O’Donnell of the United States Army North confirmed Tuesday. ...
El Paso Matters accountability reporter Elida S. Perez is doing a story examining how increases in property taxes are impacting El Pasoans. She wants to talk to El Pasoans about how property tax bills are ...
Update at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 23: Pentagon officials briefly described plans for Afghan refugees to be housed at U.S. military bases, including Fort Bliss, during a press briefing Monday. Pentagon press secretary John F. ...
While crowded planes take flight from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, local leaders and advocates in El Paso said they are in the dark about what a new Afghan refugee population might mean ...
University Medical Center will likely adopt a lower tax rate for its next fiscal year after receiving a $34.7 million commitment in American Rescue Plan Act funds from the county — an allotment county officials ...
El Paso County’s population in the 2020 census count was 865,657, an 8% increase over the prior census in 2010 that marked the county’s slowest period of growth since the Great Depression, according to data released ...
The state Capitol that three of El Paso’s House Democrats walked into Monday after a four-week absence wasn’t the same place they abruptly left last month. Relationships between Texas House Republicans and Democrats are strained ...
Three members of El Paso’s Texas House delegation returned to the Legislature on Monday, signaling Democrats’ efforts to deny a quorum to block controversial voting legislation is coming to an end. State Reps. Joe Moody, ...
Amid an increase in COVID-19, cases local government bodies such as City Council and County Commissioners Court will be required to hold meetings in person following Gov. Greg Abbott’s reversal of suspended rules for the ...
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that a second special session of the Texas Legislature will convene on Saturday with an expanded 17-item agenda. The current special session was waylaid when Texas House Democrats left the ...
An El Paso federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order to block a Texas executive order restricting the transportation of migrants. United States District Judge Kathleen Cardone’s ruling found that the Texas measure ...
Updated at 5:50 p.m. Monday, Aug. 2. An El Paso federal judge said she will render a decision Tuesday in a case brought by the federal government against the state of Texas and Gov. Greg ...
State Rep. Joe Moody’s youngest son starts kindergarten Monday, but the El Paso Democrat won’t be there for that milestone. He’ll hear how the day went via an evening phone call from the Washington Plaza ...
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