Where to get real El Paso news
We write guides. For breaking coverage, these are the newsrooms we read — and why we would rather send you to them than repeat them badly.
A guide site that fakes a news wire is worse than useless. So here is our line: this section carries our own reporting-adjacent writing — seasonal reads, explainers, what is opening and closing, what we saw ourselves. When something actually breaks in El Paso, we would rather hand you the newsroom covering it.
Who covers what
- El Paso Matters — nonprofit, investigative, strong on city hall, county government, and the border. The best single read if you only pick one.
- El Paso Times — the daily of record, going back to 1881. Deepest archive in the city.
- KTSM 9, KVIA 7, KFOX14 — the broadcast newsrooms. Fastest on weather, wrecks, closures, and anything happening right now.
- City of El Paso newsroom — the primary source for council actions, street closures, and city services. Skip the aggregators and read the release.
- El Paso Live and Visit El Paso — the official calendars for the Plaza Theatre, the Convention Center, and large downtown events.
What we will publish here
Openings and closings we have confirmed. Season changes that affect what you should do this weekend. Explainers about how something in this city works — the bridges, the monsoon, the mountain, the ballpark. Corrections, clearly labeled, when we get something wrong.
If you run a business in El Paso and something on this site is out of date, tell us. That is the fastest way this gets better.