By the time Penny Andersen pulled up the University Medical Center of El Paso’s website on her smartphone Saturday, online registration for the COVID-19 vaccine had closed. It was 12:44 p.m., just 14 minutes after ...
Migrant children without parents or guardians are crossing the El Paso-area border in increasingly large numbers, possibly portending challenges as the Biden administration looks to adjust border enforcement approaches. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than ...
Story by Rocio Gallegos/La Verdad Photographs by Alicia Fernandez Republished with permission. See the original Spanish version of the story here. Every time her petition for asylum in the United States is extended, Yaneth Blanco ...
The Texas Legislature on Monday will begin an every-10-year redistricting process that could diminish El Paso’s representation in the state House of Representatives. Census estimates through 2019 show that El Paso’s population has stagnated since ...
The more contagious variant of COVID-19 will likely reach El Paso — which could send the city toward another deadly surge in cases and hospitalizations, medical experts say. More contagious COVID-19 variants, while not proven ...
When Joe Biden asked Rep. Veronica Escobar to endorse him last year, the El Paso Democrat said she put a condition on her support. “I told him I needed him to commit to coming to ...
When Veronica crossed the border from Juárez to El Paso last spring to turn herself in to Border Patrol agents, she was nine months pregnant and already having contractions. “(An agent) asked me if I ...
As El Paso children prepare to head back to classrooms for the first time in months, they account for one of every five new COVID-19 infections so far this month, the highest proportion since the ...
Updated 12:55 p.m. Jan. 27: Revised with additional information. Texas became the first state Jan. 14 to administer more than 1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, one month after it received its first vaccine shipment. ...
By David C. Stout This week, our lawmakers in Austin gaveled in another legislative session, a 140-day event certain to be even more unpredictable because of the pandemic. However, counties and cities across Texas can ...
Public education funding will be one of the major issues Texas lawmakers tackle during the 2021 legislative session, which starts Tuesday. The state faces a nearly $1 billion shortfall for the current two-year budget, which ...
The number of COVID-19 infections shot up sharply in El Paso County last week, likely the leading edge of a storm of new cases triggered in large part by holiday gatherings. The number of infections ...
Cristóbal J. Alex, an El Pasoan with deep experience in Democratic politics, was named Tuesday to a White House job by President-elect Joe Biden. Alex, a graduate of Andress High School, will be Biden’s deputy ...
In 2020, almost 99,000 El Paso County residents — 12% of our population — tested positive for COVID-19. More than 2,000 of our family members and neighbors died because of the novel coronavirus. Fall was ...
Climate change continued to reshape El Paso in 2020, with the Sun City recording its second-highest average annual temperature in records that date back to 1887. El Paso’s three hottest years on record have occurred ...
By Rabbi Stephen Leon There is a huge secret which lives in our unique city of El Paso. Most of our residents are unaware of it and yet this secret has had an impact on ...
The events of 2020 have undeniably reshaped our world. Through the tumult of a global pandemic, a historic grassroots movement for racial justice, and a volatile election season, we have changed. Our families, our communities, ...
El Paso districts could lose millions of dollars next year if the Texas Education Agency starts funding them based on current attendance levels, which are far below those seen last school year. The TEA funded ...
Editor’s note: This story has been edited to reflect updated testing numbers. El Paso will head into 2021 with continuing high levels of COVID-19 infections, with much risk ahead until vaccines become widely available in ...
Jaime Esparza, who is about to step down as El Paso’s district attorney after 28 years, is seeking to be appointed as the top federal prosecutor in West Texas. Esparza, 63, says he has applied ...
The phone is ringing off the hook and people are lined up outside of Bowie Bakery in West El Paso. The shop is only allowing three customers inside at a time as a COVID-19 precaution. ...
Jewél Jackson, whose investigation showed that her hometown police department in Louisville was using thermal imaging to detect marijuana cultivation, will join El Paso Matters in February as a reporter covering higher education. Jackson has ...
By Minerva Morales Minerva Morales’ son, Daniel Morales, was an El Paso nurse who died of COVID-19 on Aug. 4, 17 days before his 40th birthday. He left behind a wife and four children, and ...
Twinkling holiday lights cast a warm glow and Christmas carols blare from speakers at the Outlet Shoppes of El Paso. But in these pandemic times, something is missing from the traditional holiday scene on the ...
Nine of every 10 El Pasoans who have died of COVID-19 are Hispanic, a disproportionately high rate even for a predominantly Hispanic community. From the earliest days of the pandemic, Blacks and Hispanics have borne ...
By David C. Stout As our nation transitions, we need to pursue ways for Americans to become united again. An El Paso history lesson provides a way forward for the healing our nation needs. Marcelino ...
Lorena Montoya, like thousands of El Pasoans facing financial hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been relying on the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank to help feed her family. Montoya, who cleans houses for ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 trends this past week were the most encouraging our community has seen since this summer. The most important metrics — new cases, hospitalizations and deaths — all showed declines. The key now ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Often in conversation nowadays people share with me that — although they continue following social distancing guidelines and all — they are emotionally done with this virus. The constant disruption of ...
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