Update 12:20 p.m., Oct. 26: This story has been updated with further comment from El Paso Independent School District. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed legislation on Monday that bans transgender children from participating in ...
On most days, Michael Buchanan can be found hanging out on the sidewalk next door to Punto de Partida, the opioid crisis center on Yandell Street east of Downtown El Paso. The 65-year-old is in ...
Though Texas’ six-week abortion ban has triggered alarm and distress for abortion patients and providers throughout the state, in some ways, not much has changed for El Paso. Since Sept. 1, Senate Bill 8 has ...
Seizures of fentanyl and overdose deaths caused by the potent narcotic have skyrocketed in El Paso, as in much of the nation. But along with the rise in a very real public health crisis has ...
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 ...
By Reese Oxner/Texas Tribune A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday as part of a lawsuit the Biden administration launched against the state over its new law that bars abortions as early ...
When the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban took effect in Texas on Sept. 1, Perla Galindo was 1,700 miles from El Paso. In Seattle, the left-leaning city where she now lives, Galindo says many feel ...
The city of El Paso is now offering Pfizer booster shots to certain groups after the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved giving an extra dose for greater protection ...
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is offering COVID-19 booster shots to adults this weekend in an effort to use 1,200 Pfizer doses set to expire at the end of the month. People ...
By Verónica Martínez / La Verdad A decision by Mexico’s National Supreme Court of Justice that declares the criminalization of abortion in Mexico unconstitutional opens a new window for Borderland women, who for decades have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This story has been updated with data through Saturday, Aug. 21. The current debate over COVID-19 and steps to slow its spread can be confusing. But by focusing on a few key data points, we ...
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 public school students are back on campuses after months of virtual instruction, a return that coincided with a rise in coronavirus cases in El Paso. The delta variant is driving Texas’ case surge, ...
Two El Paso-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are seeing new large outbreaks in COVID-19 cases among detained migrants. As of July 21, El Paso Service Processing Center had 75 current confirmed cases and ...
City and county leaders urged more El Pasoans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as cases climb and the threat of the latest variant of the disease looms. Of the 251 positive cases reported from July ...
El Paso Planned Parenthood, through its umbrella organization Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, has joined dozens of abortion rights advocates and providers in a federal lawsuit seeking to block the state’s strict new abortion law ...
ANAPRA, Mexico — The days-long blackouts are costly for the families in Pastor Ismael Martinez’s care as they result in spoiled food, ruined appliances and water shortages. Martinez operates Pan de Vida, a migrant shelter ...
Local hospitals are seeing a spike in patients who delayed getting treatment for illnesses during the COVID-19 pandemic as cases of the coronavirus in El Paso have declined and more El Pasoans have been vaccinated. ...
As the city of El Paso continues to see a decrease in COVID-19 cases, there is renewed attention towards diabetes and alcohol addiction within the local community. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a large number ...
By René Kladzyk, Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas | El Paso Matters and KHN Alfredo “Freddy” Valles was an accomplished trumpeter and a beloved music teacher for nearly four decades at one of the city’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The taupe building that was formerly Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic now has an empty parking lot and sprawling real estate banners indicating the space is for sale. A notice on El Paso Planned Parenthood’s ...
More than 90 medical school students are one step closer to donning their white doctor coats after graduating from Texas Tech University of Health and Science Center on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. The in-person ...
El Paso Matters reporter Elida S. Perez moderated a conversation with Dr. Marie Leiner, Dr. Melanie Longhurst and Dr. Shivani Mehta about key things they’ve learned during the pandemic and ways to help more El ...
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