It’s been more than six months since the U.S.-Mexico border closed to all but essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19. The disruption of lives and livelihoods has been widespread in El Paso and ...
This story has been updated with age data through Sept. 30. Children are making up an increasing proportion of new COVID-19 cases as El Paso County sees a second wave of novel coronavirus infections. Almost ...
Deaths by suicide among adults have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in El Paso, but mental health experts are concerned at a rise in suicide attempts. Not only have attempts at suicide for adults increased ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso this past week rose for the first since early August, an indication that Labor Day gatherings two weeks ago may have fanned viral embers. Health officials ...
El Pasoans love their furry friends. That’s why we reached out to you, El Paso Matters readers, for your input on the latest installment of How we pandemic, where we discuss why this unique moment ...
Although COVID-19 is the concern for many parents as children prepare to return to classrooms in the coming weeks, the threat of influenza also looms, an El Paso pediatrician says. Unlike the novel coronavirus, a ...
Note: This story has been updated with the deportation being completed Monday night, and with comments from an ICE spokeswoman and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. A woman who alleged she was assaulted by two ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg I am often asked why Jewish festivals don’t have a set date on the Gregorian calendar. Chanukah can be observed at any point around December (most notably, it started on Thanksgiving ...
Hospice care agencies have had to adjust their employees’ and volunteers’ work schedules and services with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the border region. People in the latter days of their lives receive care, compassion, and ...
El Paso’s number of new COVID-19 cases declined for the fifth consecutive week, and hospitalizations for the novel coronavirus showed little change over the past week. This coming week should provide some indications of whether ...
El Paso Matters is working on a story about the role pets have played during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can help us by sharing your experiences. Loading… Cover photo: Ivan Hernandez, 10, accompanied by his ...
El Paso firefighters and police issued more citations for violations of pandemic health orders over the Labor Day weekend than they had over the three previous months combined, officials said Thursday. From Sept. 4-7, “we ...
El Pasoans were reminded of the grave risks of cross-border smuggling when seven people died in a car crash on Paisano Drive on June 25 after the driver allegedly fled the Border Patrol during what ...
Although the global COVID-19 pandemic is undeniably awful, a silver lining can be glimpsed through rapid innovation in medical technologies, underscoring the extent of human ingenuity when confronted with crisis. El Paso health officials say ...
As families have been maneuvering through the COVID-19 pandemic, the social isolation of staying home may also be leading to strain on the mental health of children and adolescents. Dr. Sarah Martin, child and adolescent ...
UPDATE: El Paso’s high Tuesday was 100 and the low was 60. El Paso’s long, hot summer will finally break Tuesday night when a cold front sweeps through, sending temperatures plummeting more than 40 degrees ...
El Paso continued on its promising downward trend with COVID-19 over the past week. Now, we wait and see what impact the Labor Day weekend and the reopening of schools will have on that trend. ...
El Paso Matters is exploring the efficiency of the El Paso misdemeanors court system and is asking community members to share their stories. If you have struggled with a long misdemeanor process or paying fines ...
By Carmen E. Rodríguez Many El Pasoans who have not had run-ins with the police may think local protests against our El Paso Police Department are unwarranted and that protestors are trying to address problems ...
Last month was — by far — the hottest August in El Paso’s recorded weather history. The average temperature for this August is 88.3 degrees. The previous record was set last year, 87.6 degrees. Before ...
As El Paso enters the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease expert Dr. Ogechika Alozie talks about the importance of not letting one’s guard down when it comes to navigating life during the ...
Francisco “Paco” Isais, 71, an employee of The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus, died on Aug. 5 of COVID-19. His wife Martha, 66, said that if the testing process at University Medical Center had been ...
The number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in El Paso appear to have stabilized at levels just above what we saw in mid-June, before the summer explosion of new cases. New cases this past week ...
By Sergio Troncoso El Paso’s independent publishing house Cinco Puntos Press celebrates its 35th anniversary this year as a creative enterprise focused on social justice and giving voice to stories from and about the United ...
On May 29, the managers of two Central El Paso bars were each given a pair of citations for violating El Paso’s pandemic health orders requiring social distancing and limiting bar capacity. That brought the ...
Yisrael Greenberg came to El Paso in August 1986 with his wife Chana and newborn son Levi as an emissary of Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish movement with no history in the community. To say this ...
This story has been updated with information from a letter sent Tuesday to Eugene Forti’s family from the Veterans Land Board. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has ordered a leadership shake-up at the Ambrosio ...
The El Paso County Elections Department provides important dates and tips if you plan to vote by mail. Learn more about who’s eligible to vote by mail, and how to request a mail ballot, by ...
El Paso County’s COVID-19 situation appears to have retreated to levels of late spring, before an explosion of new cases tripled the number of infections over the first eight weeks of summer. Numbers of new ...
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