El Paso Matters is among 70 newsrooms nationwide to be selected to host a Report for America journalist in 2022. The person hired for the El Paso Matters position will focus on health care issues ...
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 ...
For more than two decades, women have been raped, disappeared and killed in frightening numbers in Ciudad Juárez. Mothers and other relatives of the women have engaged in activism to make sure they aren’t forgotten ...
By Rev. Andries Coetzee As yet another legislative session moves toward a close this month, we are again watching elected leaders exploit LGBTQ people for political gain and try to write discrimination into state law. ...
Homeowners have begun receiving their 2021 property valuations from the Central Appraisal District. Some homeowners are reporting significant increases in valuation, which could result in higher property tax bills. As we report on the impact ...
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 ...
Robert Moore has been a journalist for 38 years, most of it in El Paso. He currently is president and CEO of El Paso Matters, a nonprofit news organization he founded that began publishing in ...
By Kaitlyn Urenda-Culpepper Gov. Greg Abbott helped provide emergency medical care for Erika Calderon of McAllen after her 14-year-old son Emilian Sosa was forced to beg for her life in a letter to the governor ...
The city announced Wednesday that it would be resuming library curbside book pickups, which had been suspended since November of last year. Despite closing these outdoor services, the city’s librarians (at least the ones who ...
Small businesses have borne the economic brunt of the pandemic, with revenue streams dried up and a shifting terrain of shutdown orders. This holiday season, the question of whether El Pasoans shop local may determine ...
At a time when a global pandemic has shifted the traditional campaigning efforts for candidates, the Internet has become an invaluable source for campaigns. City Council District 7 candidate Aaron Montes, a former reporter for ...
By David C. Stout The pandemic has taken so much from us — jobs, our way of life, our health, and for far too many, relatives and loved ones have been lost here in El ...
Molly Smith, an experienced reporter on the U.S.-Mexico border, has joined El Paso Matters, where she will focus on education coverage. “I’m excited to explore how state decisions affect education along the border, as well ...
By Sandra Nevárez García Domestic violence is one of the most prevalent and underreported forms of abuse across the globe. The pandemic has affected so many aspects of our daily lives, especially those living in ...
A detainee who has tested positive for COVID-19 at the ICE El Paso Processing Center described neglectful conditions among sick detainees as an outbreak spread in the facility. Sandra, whose last name will not be ...
This story has been updated with official identifications of six of the seven killed and two of the three injured. Two eyewitness accounts of the deadly car crash in Downtown El Paso conflict with what ...
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By Beto O’Rourke Terrible news came to light last week that four Texas National Guardsmen who’d been activated for Operation Lone Star have committed suicide since October, increasing concerns about the role and treatment of ...