While many students chose to spend their spring break out of town or relaxing at home, a group of UTEP students traveled to Central America to provide healthcare to low-income residents. Members of the UTEP Global Medical Brigades, a non-profit, student-led...

Music has a significant meaning in the lives of many, but for a teenager with autism, it can mean everything. “I think it’s a better way for me to express myself than with words,” said Darío Barrera, a student at Americas High School. “(Autism...

The 15th Annual Easter Egg Hunt was held at Glory Field on Saturday, March 24. It was hosted by the Student Engagement and Leadership Center as well as Alpha XI Delta, Theta Chi, and the National Society of Leadership and Success. Dozens of children...

Hundreds of demonstrators including students, educators and parents took the streets of downtown El Paso in unison with the national March For Our Lives movement. The El Paso march was just one of at least 846 other planned protests across the globe on...

Los Dos Maintain Studio's latest mural was commissioned for “The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo” documentary by director Philip Rodriguez and producer Benicio Del Toro. The documentary is about  Chicano movement lawyer, Oscar Zeta Acosta,...

Diana Natalicio was only supposed to be at UTEP for one year. But that one year turned into a 45-year legacy on campus and 30 years as UTEP’s president. Her tenure consists of awards and recognitions including the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, a spot...

A single mother, a family law attorney, a committee representative and an organizer of a civil rights group—these are all the roles that 46-year-old Lyda Ness-Garcia has in the city of El Paso. Ness-Garcia was born in North Carolina and moved to Athens,...

After the 2016 Wise Latinas International Findings and Impact Report shed light on the injustices and barriers that Latina women of El Paso were facing, a group of women set out to put a stop to the inequity.  These women decided to create LEAD (Leadership,...

The tuition and fee increase proposals for all of the eight academic institutions of the University of Texas System was approved by the board of regents, a press release read on Monday.   The press release states that the approved increases...

Veronica Escobar was all smiles as she hugged family, friends and volunteers from her campaign at her watch party at Park Tavern in downtown El Paso on Tuesday, March 6. “We worked very, very hard to turn out the vote,” Escobar said. “We’re...

Months of visiting 226 counties throughout Texas paid off for Democrat Beto O’Rourke as he was on track to easily win the party’s nomination on Tuesday night in part of the Texas primaries. Now, O’Rourke will challenge Republican Senate house...

According to police reports, one or possibly two pedestrians were hit by a driver near UTEP on Tuesday afternoon. One person was hit near Prospect Street and Schuster Avenue. According to a report, the driver also hit multiple vehicles at the intersection...