El Paso

On Aug. 3, 2019, a man shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, a community where 85% of residents are Hispanic. In English and Spanish, survivors told LX News’ Marcel Clarke and Beth Peak about witnessing the tragedy, helping victims at the scene, and their healing process still underway three years later. Warning: some...

A new Texas law allows most people age 21 or older who haven’t been convicted of a felony to carry a holstered handgun in public without undergoing any training or getting a permit.

Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as part of her role leading the Biden administration’s response to a steep increase in migration.

The El Paso Zoo plans to press charges against a woman who was caught on video trying to feed spider monkeys after climbing into their enclosure

A woman was caught on camera inside the spider monkey exhibit at the El Paso Zoo over the weekend.

An El Paso woman is recounting the disturbing discovery of blood coming from the apartment above hers last Saturday.

It’s been about a year that healthcare workers have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero highlights the exhausting work by repiratory therapists working closely with the most critically ill patients.

President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of immigrants in its early days despite his campaign pledge to stop removing most people in the U.S. illegally at the beginning of his term.

The Texas city of El Paso, which sits on the border with Mexico, has become one of the worst COVID-19 hotspots in the nation, with over 81,000 positive cases. NBCLX talked to locals battling the crisis, including El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and Dr. Zeinab Mohammad, about what they’re experiencing on the ground.

The National Guard has been mobilized to El Paso, Texas, to help work in overflowing morgues as the state battles a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. Chris Babcock, the editor in chief of the “El Paso Herald Post” joined LX News to report from what is being called “ground zero” in the battle against COVID-19 at the Texas-Mexico border.

Across the city, more than 1,000 people per day are testing positive and the city’s major hospitals are overrun with severely ill and dying El Pasoans. Hundreds of health care workers have flown into El Paso to pick up shifts from exhausted doctors and nurses and to staff tent hospitals erected in parking lots.

The Texas National Guard has sent a 36-member team to El Paso to assist morgues in the border region with the number of dead as a result of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

A record surge in coronavirus cases has pushed hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the metropolitan area of 3 million people

El Paso, Texas, is turning its convention center into a field hospital and asking residents to stay at home for two weeks after the city recorded a roughly 200 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations in less than a month, officials said Sunday.

El Paso is marking the anniversary of a shooting at a crowded Walmart by remembering the 23 people killed.

A man accused of shooting scores of people at a Texas Walmart last summer was indicted Thursday on new federal hate crime and gun charges following the death of another person injured in the attack.

Prosecutors say the man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more at a Walmart in Texas is expected to be reindicted Thursday as he faces another murder charge in the mass shooting that targeted Mexicans.

A man pleaded guilty in connection with a West Texas ring that smuggled rare living rock cacti, a plant that wildlife officials say are a protected species.

A man shot in the Aug. 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart died after months in the hospital, raising the death toll from the attack to 23, according to a hospital official.

NFL offensive tackle Greg Robinson was being held Wednesday in a Texas jail on a pending drug distribution charge from a federal agency, records show.