The Rio Grande near El Paso has run dry — a situation that hasn’t occurred in almost 10 years — removing a key source of water for the city. “There is currently no water in the river.”... Read more»
Newspaper Tree, once an El Paso news fixture, is relaunching as a nonprofit news site focused on investigative and community journalism.... Read more»
For the second year in a row, El Paso has the lowest crime rate among American cities with populations over 500,000, according to rankings compiled by the CQ Press and released Friday.... Read more»
Mayors of cities along the Texas-Mexico border intent on protecting the images of their communities are drawing vastly different conclusions about a proposal that would bring in equipment from overseas war zones to bolster border security efforts.... Read more»2
Texas Gov. Rick Perry repeated a familiar claim at the GOP debate Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Texas’ border cities, he said, are unsafe because the federal government has failed to secure the U.S.-Mexican border. But is Perry correct?... Read more»
On the national stage, Texas’ economy is its best selling point. But this so-called “Texas Miracle” doesn’t extend statewide: In the border region, unemployment reaches as high as 13.2 percent, and the median income is 30 percent lower than the statewide average.... Read more»
A new analysis of the decisions of U.S. immigration court judges finds that at least two of the five immigration judges in El Paso have a far higher denial rate than the national average.... Read more»
While the Mexican government congratulates itself for the arrest of an reputed mastermind behind the high-profile slaying of two employees of the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez, U.S. officials are saying little.... Read more»
Mexican professionals are networking in El Paso as a result of the violence that’s ravaged its sister city across the border. “A lot of us had to leave and take our business and find another market,” says the founder of the “LaRED” business group.... Read more»
Héctor “Teto” Murguía Lardizábal took the helm of the troubled Mexican border city Sunday from former mayor José Reyes Ferriz. Juárez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, is embroiled in a war among drug cartels and law enforcement that has resulted in more than 6,600 murders since 2008.... Read more»
“What do you want from us?” It’s an odd question for a newspaper to ask of the people it covers. But when those people have an arsenal rivaling an army — and no reservations about murdering journalists to keep them from doing their jobs — a paper’s role leading the public conversation takes on a different and deadly dynamic.... Read more»
Along the border, the beheadings and bombings carried out by drug cartels are drawing comparisons to murders by Muslim extremists — not surprising, given the war-like death toll of 8,100 so far this year in Mexico. Yet diplomats from both sides reject the notion that Mexico is a “failed state.”... Read more»1
Illicit drugs, human trafficking, illegal immigration, terrorism and, yes, strep throat and H1N1: Customs and Border Protection officers are on the lookout for far more than criminals and contraband. They’re responsible for stopping infectious disease at the border.... Read more»
Border activists are hurling a last-minute plea at Congress to rethink deployment of additional National Guard troops to the region. Two hundred fifty soldiers are scheduled to arrive on the Texas-Mexico border Sunday.... Read more»
El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles is the top law enforcement official in one of America’s safest big cities: El Paso has seen just one murder this year. Yet just across the city’s and the nation’s border, in Juárez, more than 6,000 people have been murdered since 2008.... Read more»
After a sluggish 2009, Texas’ top trade districts — Houston, Laredo and El Paso — are rebounding well from the national recession and witnessing huge increases in the value of trade passing through their ports this year.... Read more»
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