Reyes Mata III

Along the rugged foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains is a crescent-shaped valley, carved with acequias, stone-lined roads and fertile fields that for millennia have been fed with storms and snowmelt from the highlands of northern New Mexico.…

The sound echoes like drums across the field, as green chile peppers – thick, ripe and heavy – are dropped into plastic buckets by field hands pulling them from hundreds of thousands of sturdy Hatch Valley chile plants. “This chile is not very hot. I…

Twenty-three names etched in bronze are now an enduring part of the history of El Paso. Struck down two years ago by a racist gunman with an AK-47, these fallen El Pasoans on Tuesday, Aug. 3 were memorialized at Ascarate Park as a testament to the…

El Paso County leaders the past few years have invested in improving some of its features and facilities, but are now looking to turn the aging park into a regional attraction. “This Ascarate concept has to be powerful and ignited, and it has to be…

Two El Paso women say they are proud to have inspired a mob “We often say ‘it takes a mob’ or ‘the mob is coming,’” joked Leyla Zeidan Safa, co-founder of Moms on Board – a nonprofit devoted to family advocacy in El Paso. She and co-founder Adrianne…

DeadBeach Brewery defines itself by an unwavering principle: Stay unabashedly pro-El Paso. The local brewery is now poised to dramatically expand its footprint in the community with a $6.5 million investment in its brewing and distribution…

A recent study points to a notable increase in the number of teens nationwide who have taken up vaping – larger than any jumps in the use of marijuana or other substances. One in 10 eighth-graders say they vaped nicotine the past year, while 37…

They stand proud beneath the rumble of thousands of cars, trucks and diesel engines that carry people and commerce across the borderland and into Juárez. Some display the outstretched arms of angels touching unfurled flags of the United States and…