The village of Vinton is giving away free sandbags for their residents during the current monsoon season. City officials are encouraging residents, who live near zones that are prone to flooding including arroyos, to take advantage of this opportunity...

Taking Back Sunday returned to El Paso for their 10th time. They played at Tricky Falls on Tuesday, July 25, and performed songs from their latest album, "Tidal Wave," as well as older hits, such as "So Last Summer" and "El Paso." Alternative rock...

Modern Chemistry and Every Time I Die opened up the show for Taking Back Sunday at Tricky Falls on Tuesday, July 25. The Prospector caught up with Modern Chemistry vocalist Joe Zorzi before the show and the frontman provided insight on their tour...

Last week, Austin District Judge Amy Clark Meachum ruled in partial favor of the city’s efforts to build a proposed $180-million arena in the Union Plaza area of Downtown El Paso by ruling that the city can build a multipurpose center, but they may...

Earlier this summer, the College of Education announced a new interim dean, William Robertson. Robertson has been a part of UTEP’s faculty for 13 years already and joined the staff in 2004. He has served as a professor and a co-chair for the Department...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Hollywood is nothing but reboots, soft reboots, remakes, adaptations, sequels and prequels. While the majority of the movies that flood your average Texas-chain, middling theater are in fact reiterative, these are essential...

One of the best and worst things that could happen to me is being born in El Paso. My downfall is being an indie movie aficionado in a city that won’t indulge my tastes. I cannot even begin to count the times that I have waited months after a film...

“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s first historically-based war film, offers the audience everything they’d expect from such an illustrious film director. A stunning IMAX visual format, coupled with action-packed stories and a sonically captivating...

Instead of relaxing his last days in El Paso, former UTEP running back Aaron Jones decided to do something that was personally worthwhile. Jones will be heading back to Green Bay on July 25, for training camp. In his last days in the Sun City, Jones...

In less than 40 days, the UTEP football team will drive to Norman, Oklahoma, to take on the Sooners, which means that football season is just around the corner. As August creeps in, the Miners will travel to Ruidoso, New Mexico, for their annual camp....

Through rain and shine, kids from all over El Paso gathered in the Sun Bowl to take part in the first Aaron Jones Youth Skills Camp. The event took place Friday and Saturday, and was held to help kids from Elementary school to High School refine their...

A couple hundred people gathered at a parking lot at Speaking Rock for the return of the Micro Wrestling tour on July 21. Six micro athletes, Blixx the shortest professional athlete in the world, Huggy Cubb, Lt. Dan, King Samoa and MCW champion Cowboy...