Month: June 2019

It’s summer break for most kids and that means more time outdoors. The El Paso County Sheriff’s office wants to make sure kids are safe…

Police shot two dogs on the city’s south side Friday afternoon after an officer was bitten, authorities said. The incident happened in the 2100…

A baseball is to blame for an El Paso streetcar derailment Thursday night in Downtown El Paso, a city spokeswoman tells ABC-7. ABC-7 reported the…

The third annual Spaceport America Cup is June 18-22 at the Las Cruces Convention Center and Spaceport America. The Cup is designed around the…

A rendition of the 1967 classic film, ‘The Graduate’ is coming to the El Paso Playhouse. Showings of ‘The Graduate’ will run…

Beto O’Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled on Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South…

NBC set the lineup for its two-night debate of 2020 presidential contenders later this month, with a top-heavy second session that will pit former…

Whataburger, which began as a small burger stand in Corpus Christi, is changing hands after 69 years of family ownership. The popular fast food…

The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding…

Authorities say a man suspected in a Massachusetts homicide has been taken into custody in New Mexico. New Mexico State Police say they received…

NBCUniversal has announced plans for a state-of-the-art television and film studio in a warehouse district just north of downtown Albuquerque. The…

The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a…

Heading off the prospect of everyone in Texas being able to call themselves plumbers, Gov. Greg Abbott has extended the Texas State Board of Plumbing…

The Association of American Medical Colleges ( AAMC ) has published data projecting a shortage of 122,000 physicians by 2032. IHS Markit is a global…

Proponents of government transparency are warning that a little-noticed bill, now sitting on Gov. Greg Abbott‘s desk, could gut public access…

New Mexico has made it illegal for private employers to ask about a person’s criminal history on an initial job application. Workforce…

ABC-7 photojournalist David Avila was coming back to the TV station when he saw agents step out of a Border Patrol vehicle and then chase two…

ABC-7 Photographer David Avila was not far from our television studios when he noticed a Border Patrol unit stopped on the corner of Executive Center…

E-cigarettes will be included in New Mexico’s indoor smoking ban starting Friday. The amendment suggests a ‘reasonable distance’…

The federal government has chosen a military base in Oklahoma as the location for a new temporary shelter to house migrant children and is…

Three people were injured, one critically, when an ATV collided with another vehicle along a San Elizario on Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred…

A fire in the small town of Organ, about 15 miles east of Las Cruces, that destroyed a tool shed and burned part of a home last week was…

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the…

A welcome surge of melting snow is pouring out of the Rocky Mountains and into the drought-stricken rivers of the southwestern U.S., fending off a…

The federal government is illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a fair chance of being released on bond, attorneys alleged in a…

The Democratic National Committee has announced the 20 candidates who have qualified for the party’s first presidential primary debates later…

Behind a thick metal door and down a sterile hallway at a privately-run detention center in rural New Mexico, voices echo from the confines of a…

The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a…

(Editors’ note: The following is sponsored content) The Texas public charter high school system officially announced its new name and unveiled…

A normal Sunday afternoon turned into terrifying ordeal for El Paso native and UTEP graduate Jacqueline Padilla. Padilla, who moved to Dallas from El…