The Foster Innovation Exchange (FIX) Program at Arrowhead Center has teamed up with Amazon to offer up to $25,000 worth of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Credits for students and entrepreneurs in the Borderplex. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully-featured services from data centers globally. Millions […]Read More
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New Mexico News Service is an arm of the Public News Service that provides stories that examine the effects of policy on areas that receive too little coverage, lifting up often marginalized voices and making greater journalistic breadth on any platform.Amazon Begins hiring more than 500 full-time positions ahead of the launch of its new El Paso fulfillment center. Employees will play integral roles within Amazon’s customer fulfillment operations and will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. On top of Amazon’s minimum […]Read More
Law enforcement is looking into the discovery of human remains on the site of the new Amazon Fulfillment Center, under construction in Far East El Paso. According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO) on the afternoon of March 15, they were notified that a portion of a possible human skeletal limb was located […]Read More
Amazon announced Wednesday plans to open its first fulfillment center just outside El Paso’s eastern city limits, near I-10 and Eastlake. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 700 new full-time jobs with what Amazon officials say are industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. “We’re […]Read More
“The Curse and the Covenant,” an award-winning independent film made in El Paso, was supposed to have its long-awaited theatrical premiere in the Sun City this month. With the COVID-19 emergency the event was canceled, however – like many other parts of modern life – the movie will now come to viewers. The fantasy feature, […]Read More
The Boys is not for the faint of heart. Garth Ennis, the man who brought us Preacher, is bringing another of his dark creations to TV through Amazon Prime. The Boys is a Dynamite Comics series that ran for 72 issues. The story is set in a post 9/11 world where the superheroes are not […]Read More
Wednesday, Mayor Dee Margo and Borderplex CEO Jon Barela announced a partnership, along with civic and business leaders in the region, to submit a proposal for Amazon’s recently announced nationwide search for a second headquarters. “Our region won’t take a backseat to anyone. El Paso should set its sights on big, ambitious projects that are […]Read More
Amazon. It can be the bane of a businesses’ existence; but it can also be a great research tool, if you know how to use it. After all, Amazon is the third most popular search engine on the web. Only Google and YouTube beat it. So how can you use it to your advantage if you’re […]Read More
The City of El Paso Public Library is teaming up with YWCA El Paso del Norte Region (YWCA) to make banned and challenged books a part of every library location. Beginning Saturday, May 14, each Public Library Branch will feature a section dedicated to banned and contested books. The Banned Book Sections will be themed; […]Read More
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at ports of entry in El Paso, west Texas and New Mexico seized a wide variety of items during the last seven days to include drugs, unreported currency, prohibited food products and more. “The vast majority of the thousands of people CBP officers encounter on a daily […]Read More