So what’s driving the sky-high costs in a city known for affordable living? One big culprit: Texas’s 17.5% wireless tax burden, among the highest in the nation (for comparison, New Mexico’s state tax burden is 13%). Texas piles on one of the heaviest combined tax loads on wireless service, rivaling places like Illinois and New York.

The best things to do in El Paso this week!

A new national study ranked America’s safest cities for Halloween. While El Paso didn’t make the official list, we ran the numbers ourselves and the numbers look pretty sweet.