El Paso Times
Rights groups take ICE to court
Civil rights groups are suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on behalf of four detainees held at Camp East Montana over “horrific” human rights abuses. The lawsuit naming the massive immigration detention center in El Paso was filed on...
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‘An amazing night’
The WBA women’s boxing lightweight championship is staying in El Paso. El Paso’s Stephanie Han defeated Albuquerque’s Holly Holm by majority decision in front of a capacity crowd of more than 7,000 on Saturday, May 30, at the El Paso County Coliseum....
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LET IT FLOW
The annual release of water from Elephant Butte Dam is underway, sending stored water first into Caballo Reservoir and then into the Rio Grande toward El Paso. An initial release of 600 cubic feet per second began at 7 a.m. from Caballo Dam on Friday....
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Cannabis legalization spurs innovation
Innovation in health care saves lives. But not all health innovations have enough evidence to actually benefit patients. Barriers to innovation are often higher in illicit or restricted markets, including cannabis, stem cells and cryptocurrencies....
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‘SOMEWHERE’ MAKES DEBUT
It’s been two years since Borderland singer-songwriter Javier Martinez released new Tale of Giants music. That drought ends Friday when his new song, “Somewhere,” drops across musical platforms, including a new video on YouTube, starring El Paso...
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Trump-endorsed Paxton prevails in TX
President Donald Trump’s purge of Republicans who have dared to defy him reached a new height on May 26 with the ousting of Texas Sen. John Cornyn. A four-term pillar of the GOP establishment, Cornyn once climbed to his party’s No. 2 leadership post...
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El Paso region considering stricter rules for data center development
El Paso County Commissioners Court questioned representatives from El Paso Electric about any potential impacts from the development of data centers in the region. El Paso Electric and El Paso Water officials presented reports about infrastructure...
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What’s new in El Paso: Fire stations, park upgrades
A new Horizon City Police Headquarters, renovations to El Paso fire stations, and a vibrant new lighting and decorations coming to Pueblo Viejo Park in the Lower Valley are among the latest in local municipal projects. Here’s a roundup of some of the...
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Rural hospitals close in increasing numbers
Some Pennsylvania hospitals are being pushed beyond the brink of closure. Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park closed in April 2025, Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland closed in May 2025, and Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital, formerly the Ohio Valley...
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‘It was unbelievable’
BTS is now the biggest show to take over Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso. And for Jorge Vazquez, executive director of the Special Events Center, the impact is, in some ways, yet to be seen. Yes, 48,000 people each night of two concerts, May 2-3, had a...
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‘We honor those who have fallen...’
The U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector commemorated fallen agents ahead of Memorial Day weekend and the anniversary of the founding of the agency. The solemn ceremony on Thursday, May 21, remembered the 161 agents killed in the line of duty since the...
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Visiting Elephant Butte State Park
ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. — With a little imagination, the flat-topped butte protruding from the dammed waters of the Rio Grande in Sierra County is said to resemble an elephant. Resemblant or not, Elephant Butte is iconic, the namesake of a town, dam and...
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Seeing double
For the smallest patients at Las Palmas Medical Center, life as newborns comes with the beeps and hums of equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit. Fortunately, it also includes the compassion and meticulous care of twin nurses, Krystal and...
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New Mexico cannabis sales top $2.2 billion
The cannabis industry in New Mexico continues bringing in big dollars for the state. Since medical cannabis became legal in April 2022, and especially after the boom of recreational cannabis in April 2024, New Mexico has raised more than $2.2 billion...
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Grid United aims to connect El Paso to Eastern power grid
Grid United, a Houston company backed by a Houston billionaire, has begun the years-long process of connecting El Paso Electric’s Western power grid to the Eastern grid, providing a new electricity stream for this region. The 5-year-old company has...
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Celebrating UTEP graduations in photos
The University of Texas at El Paso celebrated the Class of 2026 at four spring commencement ceremonies over the weekend. Among the total of 3,180 degrees conferred on Saturday and Sunday, May 1617, include: ● Liberal Arts 824 ● Education 287 ●...
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Charting his own path
It’s been nearly 1,000 years since King Henry IV stood barefoot in the Italian snow to beg forgiveness after clashes with Pope Gregory VII, and over two centuries since Napoleon imprisoned Pope Pius VII in France. Now, a battle is underway between a...
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Trump leaves Beijing with few victories
BEIJING – President Donald Trump left China on May 15 with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping. Trump’s visit to America’s main strategic and...
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‘I feel like I missed so much’
Years after war left him battling PTSD and avoiding crowds, Orlando Romero is preparing to step into one at a UTEP commencement that marks a deeply personal comeback. ● As the University of Texas at El Paso holds its commencement Saturday and Sunday,...
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‘An affront to religious liberty’
The Trump administration is seeking to seize sacred land owned by Diocese of Las Cruces along the New Mexican border with Mexico. The federal government is looking to strip 14.2 acres of land from the Catholic diocese through eminent domain at the...
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Do we still honor César Chávez?
El Paso County has approved changing a mural honoring César Chávez, as two area school districts have begun the sometimes emotionally charged process of dropping the late labor leader’s name from schools. ● For decades, Chávez had been hailed as a...
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Cookie shop, lounge and diner among new businesses opening
El Pasoans who remember Elmer’s fried chicken might want to head to Elmer’s Dinner, which recently opened in Central El Paso. Management at Elmer’s Dinner, at 1730 Montana Ave., said the restaurant is owned by different owners but has the same menu...
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AI-integrated cameras raise alarms
For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. ● Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance. ● In thousands of towns and cities across the United States, automatic license plate readers have...
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Visiting lawmakers say El Paso ICE detention center raises concerns
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig felt a wave of emotions as she walked through Camp East Montana on her first visit to the sprawling immigration detention center in El Paso. Craig was not allowed to speak with anyone during her nearly two-hour oversight visit....
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Trump says Iran ceasefire holds
President Donald Trump is brushing away concerns that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement is finished after the two sides launched strikes on each other that he called a “trifle.” “They trifled with us today. We blew them away. I call that a trifle,”...
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Mother’s Day brunch
BMaybe keep the mom coupons, but make plans to take her out for Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, at a great brunch place. Here are five of my favorite brunch places in El Paso. When is Mother’s Day this year? Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 10. Mexican...
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Detainee diagnosed with ovarian cyst as care concerns grow
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig has confirmed that medical staff at ICE’s El Paso service processing center have confirmed that her detained constituent, Andrea Pedro Francisco, has a large ovarian cyst after a ultrasound was performed. Craig announced the...
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Most Texans oppose state’s push to ban THC products
With election season in full swing, medical marijuana legalization could be a winning strategy for candidates in Texas. A new study from Fabrizio, Lee and Associates found “overwhelming support” among Texans for legalized medical marijuana and for the...
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‘It gets us all together’
This may have been the 11th official Borderland Jam, but artists have been painting in that same spot since the mid-1990s. Back then, they’d show up with backpacks full of spray cans, searching for walls where their work would get the most...
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BTS ARMY takes over El Paso
Crowds of ARMY of all ages and cultures formed lines outside the Sun Bowl, trading freebies and gathering at the Glory Field fan party ahead of the first BTS show. The first BTS concert in El Paso was Saturday, May 2, at the Sun Bowl Stadium, where...
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‘We are moving these cases’
Protesters gathered outside the Downtown courthouse for an explanation for why drunken drivers are getting lenient sentences in El Paso County. ● Their protest signs targeted El Paso District Attorney James Montoya. ● “We don’t need more bars,” a Sober...
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Site of deadly 2025 floods will not reopen this year
Camp Mystic, the summertime retreat for young girls where dozens died last summer in a flooding event investigators determined could have been avoided, will not reopen this summer. The 700-acre private Christian summer camp for girls located on the...
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Sol Summit organizers plan Downtown festival
Organizers of the Sol Summit, a new entertainment event by the El Paso Community Foundation, are looking forward to a successful event this weekend. Never mind that Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3, will be one of the busiest weekends in May, with...
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BTS concert guide for El Paso Sun Bowl Stadium
About 40,000 BTS fans, known as Army, are gearing up for each night of the Korean pop group’s two concerts in El Paso. BTS will bring their world tour ‘ARIRANG’ to the Sun Bowl Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3. A limited number of tickets may still be...
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El Paso provides city employee pay data
City employees, like all El Paso residents, have not been immune to high costs of living, but the real question is how salaries stack up. As the city continues to grapple with low-wage issues, the municipal government released salary data indicating...
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Construction advances on Borderland Expressway
Construction is well underway on the second phase of the Borderland Expressway in Northeast El Paso. The almost seven-mile second phase will go from Martin Luther King Boulevard, at the New Mexico state line, to Railroad Drive, near the Union Pacific...
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Fort Bliss data center plan draws questions
Fort Bliss officials received an earful from El Pasoans concerned about a proposed data center on post and its possible impact on water and electric power resources in the city. The initial listening session to record public comments and questions was...
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THE TAXMAN COMETH
Property tax-tied home appraisals have been hitting El Paso mailboxes this month. The notices from the El Paso Central Appraisal District are usually dreaded by homeowners because they often bring news of increasing valuations that ultimately bring...
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Hal Marcus memorial to honor ‘artistic spirit of El Paso’
A remembrance and celebration of life for beloved El Paso artist Hal Marcus will take place this weekend, including an official unveiling of one of his best-known paintings at its new home. Hal Marcus, a well-known painter, art collector and promoter...
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BTS, Post Malone, Karol G lead slate
This summer will kick off a slew of exciting concerts in all music genres for El Paso area music fans. BTS, the Sol Summit and the Michelada Fest, headlined by Juanes, will all take place the same weekend, May 2-3. Later in May, Post Malone, along...
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‘Not getting adequate medical treatment’
Attorneys and a U.S. Representative from Minnesota are raising concerns about the health of a Guatemalan immigrant being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso. Andrea Pedro Francisco, 23, was detained by ICE agents...
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Latino vote shifting away from Trump, GOP
In the 2024 election, President Donald Trump dramatically improved his performance among nearly all groups of voters from four years earlier. Trump’s growth among Hispanic voters was especially notable, increasing by more than 10 points from 2020 to...
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First look at Slim Chickens
An Arizona-based franchiser is opening the first Slim Chickens in El Paso on Tuesday, April 21, on the far Eastside. Slim Chickens will open at 10 a.m. Tuesday at 3152 N. Zaragoza Road, just past Pebble Hills. People can download the app and get $5...
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Premium patties
After eight successful years in Downtown El Paso, the owners of Rockstar Burger Bar have expanded with a second location in the Eastlake area by Horizon City. Alexander Mangual, general manager, said the owners Robert Holguin (not the Channel 14-KFOX...
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FORDING THE RIVER
At a bend in the Rio Grande, American tourists wade the river from Mexico, climb a sandy embankment in the U.S. and fish out their passports. ● In a tiny stuccoed customs house deep inside Big Bend National Park, the Boquillas Crossing Port of Entry is...
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Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz “completely open” to commercial vessels April 17 – then threatened to again close the global shipping lane if the United States did not end its blockade on Iranian ports and ships. It was the latest back-and-forth...
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‘It feels amazing to see my dad everywhere’
One of El Paso’s greatest athletes is being recognized with another special tribute. ● Eddie Guerrero, who is a WWE Hall of Famer, is being honored with limitededition tribute T-shirts during WrestleMania. ● The clothing brand Civil Regime is...
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El Paso city council approves I-10 Deck Plaza plan
The city of El Paso is moving forward on a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the Downtown I-10 Deck Plaza project. The El Paso City Council voted 7-1 to approve the MOU, which establishes a partnership between the city, El Paso County and the...
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Infill with a view
Matt Lopez is a novice developer who turned a small strip of vacant land in an old El Paso neighborhood into an upscale row of new townhomes. He drove around Central El Paso for a while looking for the right spot for his first infill project. He found...
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El Paso icon, artist Hal Marcus dies
El Paso artist Hal Marcus, well-known as a painter, art collector and book publisher whose vibrant, colorful works reflected his love of the Borderland, has died at age 74. Marcus “died as he lived, artfully and peacefully, in his unique home,...
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UTEP law school gets landmark donation
The reality of a law school at the University of Texas at El Paso got one step closer with a landmark $5 million gift. The donation from the law firm of Tawney, Acosta & Chaparro, P.C. matched another $5 million gift from the Paul L. Foster Family...
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‘THEY’VE NEVER BEEN HERE’
FPRESIDIO or Denisse Carrera, it’s the dark, starry nights. ● For Mike Davidson, it’s his 49 years paddling the Rio Grande. ● For Bill Ivey, it’s the ghost town business he built with his father, and now his son. ● In a state with a historic rebellious...
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Iran sets conditions for further talks with U.S.
Iran vowed on April 10 not to participate in negotiations unless a ceasefire takes hold in Lebanon and Iran’s assets are unfrozen, throwing doubt over highstakes peace talks set to begin the following day in Pakistan. Iran’s parliamentary speaker,...
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Splish & splash
El Paso swimming season will be in full swing, starting early May, with one pool kicking off early and opening this Sunday, April 12. ● The city’s popular water parks — Chapoteo, Lost Kingdom, Camp Cohen, and Oasis — will begin their pool season in...
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‘My favorite day of the year’
Opening day for the El Paso Chihuahuas is always a special time for Toni and Janae Sustaita, and that was quite easy to tell when the Chihuahuas kicked off their 13th home season against the Albuquerque Isotopes at Southwest University Park. The...
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El Paso County sues ICE over detention center plan
The El Paso County Commissioners Court has approved a request to file a lawsuit related to immigration detention center against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Commissioners approved filing the legal action on Monday, April 6, which is...
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It’s Opening Day
El Paso Chihuahuas season 2026 promises to be a season of celebrating our culture and community - from choosing Matachines as part of its Copa de la Diversión identity, to bringing quesabirria tacos and mazapan-infused cocktails to the forefront. In...
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ICE finds dozens of standards violations
ICE oversight inspectors have found dozens of violations of detention standards in Camp East Montana, the largest detention center in the United States. Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Detention Oversight, which...
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‘Finally at the finish line’
Ajourney of discernment is culminating this Easter weekend for Mason Thompson, a young, married family man who is getting baptized in the Catholic church. ● “I’m a little nervous but mostly I’m just excited because this has been a two-year process for...
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2 U.S. fighter jets downed over Iran
Two days after President Donald Trump vowed in an address to hit Iran “extremely hard,” two U.S. fighter jets went down over Iran, according to the White House and media reports. One crew member was rescued from a two-seated F-15E fighter jet that was...
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250 years of freedom
Northeast El Paso’s annual NorthEaster Parade will help celebrate the U.S. Semiquincentennial this year. “48 Years of Tradition Meets 250 Years of Freedom: Join the America 250 Celebration!” states the Mimbela Family NorthEaster Parade website. The...
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Texas emergency alert test is coming
It is a test. It is only a test. Residents shouldn’t be alarmed on Thursday, April 2, when cell phones, television screens and radio start buzzing with alerts during a statewide test of public warning systems in El Paso and across Texas. “It’s a...
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‘It’s really meaningful’
Togo Railey never gets tired of the anniversaries, and this one is bigger than most. In Memorial Gym on Wednesday night, April 1, where UTEP (then Texas Western) had its greatest year, Railey will be there for the special screening of Glory Road that...
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3D barracks unveiled at Fort Bliss for border troops
Fort Bliss housing for soldiers serving the mission of border security was bolstered with the unveiling of 3D construction of future barracks. The ribbon-cutting held on Thursday, March 26, on the post was an opportunity to see the 3D Vulcan machine...
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Hundreds of El Pasoans join ‘No Kings’ protest
Hundreds of El Pasoans of all ages turned out for the third “No Kings” protest against the policies of President Donald Trump. The El Paso demonstration was part of a national day of protest on Saturday, March 28, with more than 3,300 events across...
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‘A LOT OF POSITIVE CHANGES’
It has been a whirlwind first year in office for Mayor Renard Johnson. Johnson, El Paso’s first Black mayor and a newcomer to politics, was sworn into office Jan. 6, 2025. Since that time, Johnson has led the city to its lowest tax rate in a decade,...
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Trump delays strikes on Iran power plants
The Pentagon is weighing sending an additional 10,000 troops to the Middle East as the war with Iran rages, multiple news outlets reported. It remained unclear when a decision will be made on whether to send the additional combat soldiers, according...
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Mayor declares state of El Paso ‘strong’
Closing the book on his first year in office, Mayor Renard Johnson declared, “the state of the city of El Paso is strong.” The mayor made his declaration before a packed house at the El Paso convention center during his first “State of the City”...
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‘With faith, without fear’
With chants of “with faith, without fear,” nearly 1,000 people marched through Downtown El Paso calling for an end to the Trump administration’s policies of mass deportation. Hundreds from the Borderland joined an interfaith march and vigil in support...
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Live fire training at Fort Bliss in Bradley Fighting Vehicles
The boom of a cannon and the rattle of a secondary machine gun signaled the training of Bradley Fighting Vehicles at Fort Bliss. Soldiers with the 4-6 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat teams, on Friday, March 20, trained in regularly...
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Honoring the bravery, sacrifice of WWII heroes
As a registered 5,000 participants arrived at White Sands Missile Range, their collective patriotism told the story of a Bataan Memorial Death March commemoration 37 years in the making. The locale that bills itself as “America’s range” hosted the...
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‘I think we need a change’
Will Juárez Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar be “the next governor of Chihuahua?” Perez Cuellar — who is mulling a run for governor with the Morena political party in 2027 — was the guest speaker at the El Paso Central Business Association’s monthly luncheon...
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PROJECT JUPITER
The mammoth Project Jupiter data centers complex being constructed for Oracle Corp., in the Santa Teresa, New Mexico area, on El Paso’s west edge, is to generate more power than El Paso Electric’s four power plants combined. That’s what the...
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Troops deployed to Middle East region
Despite President Donald Trump’s promises of the war with Iran ending soon and broad domestic disapproval of further involvement, the United States is sending more troops to the region, a defense official said. The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit,...
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From dough to whoa!
It’s a Wednesday night at St. Augustine Pizza Pub and the din of laughter and chatter go hand in hand with the fun of learning how to make a pizza from scratch. ● Chef Alejandro Montoya Jaramillo is at the end of a long table, engaging 20 or so people,...
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El Paso marks 60th anniversary of Texas Western’s 1966 NCAA title
Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso, made history 60 years ago today, on March 19, 1966, by winning the NCAA basketball championship game against Kentucky. Coach Don Haskins started five Black players — Bobby Joe Hill, David...
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