Leaders in El Paso’s LGBTQ+ community convened on Thursday for a discussion on the state of the local queer community, hosted by El Paso Matters. Coinciding with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the conversation covered several wide-ranging ...
Wendy Sandoval grabs pliers and tinkers with metal parts to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm in the opening scene of “Disrupted Borders,” a new documentary about a remarkable friendship between two El ...
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 ...
For now, the Rio Grande outside El Paso is a bare sandbed stretching miles, but in a couple days there’ll be water running in it again, albeit later than usual. For the people, wildlife and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emiliana “Emily” Edwards wants El Pasoans to know that she’s a normal kid. The 14-year-old middle schooler loves singing, watching anime, and playing games on her computer. But unlike her cisgender classmates, Emily’s identity as ...
An “emergency response team” of law enforcement officers from smaller agencies in El Paso County is raising questions about need and liability from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and a national law enforcement organization. ...
El Paso shifted in recent days to something unthinkable just weeks earlier: wait lists are no more and people can visit a walk-up COVID-19 vaccination site. There are more shots than people wanting to get ...
Veteran border journalist Julián Aguilar is joining El Paso Matters as its first editor. Aguilar, an El Paso native and graduate of Burges High School, has covered border issues for the Texas Tribune since 2010. ...
A few reminders of February’s cold snap stand sentry around El Paso — palm trees with brittle, brown fronds rattling in the springtime winds, some with new leaves peeking through. Area master gardeners and tree ...
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on all three counts stemming from last year’s murder of George Floyd. Here’s a sampling of reactions from El Pasoans. Abeni Merriweather, 19, sophomore, commercial music ...
More than half of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and a third are fully vaccinated. Still, the number of new infections has been stuck at a high ...
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies away from jail. Crisis intervention teams are designed to improve law enforcement officers’ ...
Tuesday’s recommendation to suspend the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines will have a slight impact on El Paso’s vaccination efforts, potentially making it more difficult to protect hard-to-reach populations. The state ...
Legislation that would categorize gender-affirming care for trans children as “child abuse” was discussed in a Texas Senate committee hearing Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from an El Pasoan parent. “I’m not an abuser, I’m ...
Danielle Prokop is the newest member of the El Paso Matters team, focusing on the environment and the impacts of climate change on the Paso del Norte region. “I’m excited to play a part in ...
Child advocates have seen changes in the ways cases of abuse have been reported to authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the majority of children haven’t returned to schools for in-person learning — ...
This past week proved that El Paso has not escaped the COVID-19 crisis. The number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths increased over the past week, even as more El Pasoans were vaccinated against the ...
A controversial bill designed to redistrict and reduce the courts of appeals in Texas has been withdrawn after it drew sharp criticism during a public hearing in Austin last week. Senate Bill 11, filed by ...
Many El Paso homeowners are seeing a significant spike in their property appraisals, pushed upward by a hot real-estate market during the pandemic, Central Appraisal District officials said. The average home valuation in El Paso ...
On a clear Sunday morning, sisters Josey and Christina “Teeny” Pickett met up at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza to embark on a strenuous masked run. Although the sisters live on opposite sides of El Paso, training ...
For a young El Paso couple, their dream business venture quickly turned into a nightmare after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But after making some adjustments to how they do business and getting some help from ...
El Paso will receive its largest shipment ever of first dose COVID-19 vaccines this week. The increase in vaccine availability comes as new infections continue to be near the lowest levels in months, though still ...
By Sara Sanchez/El Paso Inc. Here on the U.S.-Mexico border, El Paso’s informal economy, made up of workers who cross to the United States every day to do everything from cut lawns to work in ...
El Paso continues its encouraging COVID-19 trends, with new cases, hospitalizations and deaths all in decline. On Saturday, El Paso reported 88 new COVID-19 infections, the first time we’ve been below 100 new daily cases ...
By Viridiana Solano/Univision 26 Many family activities and traditions changed with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such is the case of the Solano family, who gathers every Sunday in front of the computer to ...
An El Paso rabbi’s campaign to make people aware of the importance of charity was on display Wednesday in the Texas House of Representatives. Plastic yellow arks — charity boxes provided by the Chabad Lubavitch ...
As the spouse of a nurse who works with COVID-19 patients, Ricardo “Richie” Sanchez is frank in his summary of this year. “Extremely stressful, excruciatingly stressful at times,” he said, but also “very humbling and ...
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By Kathy Staudt and Sarahí Soto-Talavera All of a sudden, people are talking about extremely low wages and unfilled employee vacancies in our region. Why? At one of the Corralito restaurants in El Paso, customers saw a ...