Sarah Franco began her college career with a passion for journalism, which led her to valuable internships and opportunities. Fast forward four years later, her passion continues, but the landscape of journalism, as well as the world around her, is changing...

I never thought I'd graduate from college during a pandemic but here I am.   Both of my siblings graduated from UTEP a while ago and when I went to their ceremonies, I always told myself that would be me in a few years — standing there with my cap...

What should have been a time to celebrate graduation and start a lifelong career has instead turned into another precious tradition lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of seniors at UTEP will once again not experience their graduation in person because...

El Paso is a predominantly Hispanic city, but Black entrepreneurs are still leaving their mark here through various industries like food and beverage and real estate. However, they still face challenges unique to Black business owners. “I just knew...

The UTEP Miners played a close first half  Saturday against the University of Texas at San Antonio  Roadrunners but fell apart in the second half in a 52-21 rout on the road.   Defensively the Miners could not produce an answer to the Roadrunners...

The 2020 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory: historic early voter turnout in essentially every state as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continued to climb. The pandemic reached disturbing heights as millions of Americans...

UTEP President Heather Wilson addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and the institution's work as a Hispanic serving university during her State of the University address Oct. 27 and 28, broadcasted on KTEP-FM. At the beginning of the broadcast Wilson opened...

The Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at UTEP has adapted and expanded its services to include CAPS to Go, a virtual resource aimed to better help students cope in these tumultuous times.   Since the early emergence of the pandemic, CAPS...

KTEP 88.5 FM celebrated 70 years of providing news and music to the border region. The channel that began broadcasting educational instruction for the El Paso School District, now broadcasts jazz and classical music 24 hours a day, while hosting news...

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that students needed to submit documentation to [email protected] to opt into the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grade option. That is not true. Students only have to complete the Fall 2020...

The 2020 election proved to be the most nail-biting and consequential election of our lifetimes for many reasons: Record-high early voting and extremely close races with a raging pandemic as the backdrop. Voters cast a record-breaking 158,000,000 ballots...

There are more than 26,900 active COVID-19 infections in El Paso County as of Monday and El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said during a virtual news conference in late October that many local hospitals have already reached full capacity. Despite...