Stacker cited data from Climate Power to look at green energy and infrastructure projects that have been announced since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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By Heather Chen, CNN Philip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot held hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, has appeared in a video saying he is “alive and well,” as concerns grow for his safety as fighting with Indonesian security forces intensifies. In the one and a half minute video, Mehrtens, dressed in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – The Jazz Exchange, a minority-led non-profit organization dedicated to building the community through music, is holding a benefit concert this Sunday. Sunday happens to be International Jazz Day and April is Jazz Appreciation Month. The 18 and over concert will be held at Vyable Coffee, 100 Porfirio Diaz Street, beginning
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso city auditors are looking into the use of taxpayer-funded purchasing cards. City representatives are given gas and purchasing cards to use on work-related items. Now representative Art Fierro argues there are no checks and balances systems or policies to hold council members accountable in how they use these
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — You’re invited to the city of El Paso’s Mindful Fiesta, celebrating Cinco de Mayo. The event if part of National Mental Awareness Month. The city wants to create a stigma-free environment to discuss mental health issues. Mindful Fiesta is happening May 5, 2023 at Album Park in East El Paso.
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — High School students from Las Cruces had the unique opportunity to tour the William Beaumont Army Medical Center this week. On the tour they learned about the U.S. Army’s medical professions. “We just want to bring exposure to the Las Cruces Public School District and show the Army is not
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The fallout from the pandemic sent schools into lockdown, preventing recruiters from engaging with interested students and causing enlistment numbers to drop. TSgt Ricardo Perez said, “None of the recruiters were able to get into the schools for a couple of years, and so I’d like to consider that more
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The owners of Zee’s Pizzeria in New Orleans are offering free pizza in exchange for two tickets to the extremely popular Taylor Swift Eras Tour. Fans of Swift are notoriously desperate to get their hands on tickets, sending prices into the thousands and notoriously causing Ticketmaster to crash. Now restaurant
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Montwood High School senior will soon be interning at Amazon. In addition to that new opportunity, Gael Sustaita is also receiving a $40,000 scholarship. That money will allow Sustaita to study computer science or engineering at a university of his choice. It’s called the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship. When
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP football team will take on Michigan in “The Big House” during the 2026 season, UTEP Vice President and Director of Athletics Jim Senter and Michigan Director of Athletics Warde Manuel announced on Tuesday. “It’s always exciting to play a powerhouse Big Ten team in a great and electric environment,” UTEP head coach Dana Dimel said. “I
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso City Council members passed a resolution Tuesday to look into issuing municipal identification cards. The measure was passed unanimously. Several El Paso residents spoke before the vote. Many of those who spoke were immigration advocates, including representatives from the Border Network for Human Rights. Many advocates in El
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The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans was himself killed by Taliban fighters “in recent weeks,” U.S. officials tell ABC News. A senior Biden administration official on Tuesday described the deceased leader of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate (also
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A group of frustrated residents who live in and near Grey Fox Estates, Tres Hijos Estates, and Saddle Creek Estates north of Las Cruces expressed their concerns about a cannabis farm in a residential area to county commissioners Tuesday. ABC-7 reported the frustration and concern of these same residents
Continue Reading Gusty winds will gradually diminish a bit for Wednesday with still a good bit of sunshine. Temps will be a little cooler with highs in the lower 80’s. A more potent cold front arrives late Friday bringing in cooler temps and gusty winds for the west side of town.
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(CNN) — Mattel on Tuesday introduced its first-ever version of the Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome. The new doll is part of Mattel Barbie Fashionistas line, which aims to offer kids more diverse representations of beauty and fight the stigma around physical disabilities. Previous Barbie Fashionistas have included a doll with a prosthetic
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Pro-Musica is closing out its season with a speacial concert Wednesday night. The trio ‘”Simply Three” — Glen McDaniel, violin, Nick Villalobos, bass and Zack Clark, cello — perform every music genre possible, from Classical to Gershwin, Jazz to Adele, Coldplay and even play their own compositions. The
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An important fossil fuel region near the Borderland is getting busier. FireBird Energy II and Quantum Energy Partners are working together now. $500 million is being invested into the companies, allowing for increased oil production in the Permian Basin. The region spans from West Texas to southeast New Mexico and
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(CNN) — Certain work conditions — including inflexible or late-night schedules and lack of paid sick leave — can have a significant effect on mental health, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, about 1 in every 37 working adults experienced serious psychological distress, or negative
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A hearing for accused National Institute of Migration commissioner Francisco Garduño started Tuesday morning. Garduño arrived at the federal court in Juarez around 7:30 AM. The hearing was scheduled to start at 9:15. Mexico’s attorney general’s office is trying to charge Garduño with illegally exercising his public power. Last Friday, a
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black holes have a reputation for snacking on stars, but some of these celestial garbage disposals may be messier than others, according to new research. Astrophysicists used 3D computer models to show that intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites out of wayward stars before tossing away the stellar crumbs and
Continue Reading By Mengchen Zhang, Alex Stambaugh and Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover on Mars has been in hibernation since last May due to an “unpredictable accumulation” of dust, mission designer Zhang Rongqiao said, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday. Powered by solar energy, Zhurong landed in a large plain in Mars’ northern hemisphere called
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to a new list put out by Betting.com, El Paso has the second-cheapest pizza in the country. In first place is Detroit, Michigan where customers are paying $13.39 for an average 14-inch margherita pizza. The website says it got its data from GrubHub sales. Here in El Paso, however,
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SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A young cancer survivor is using his passion for dance to raise money for cancer research. The tough 8-year-old is getting the community on the dance floor to make a difference. When 8-year-old Aiden hears the beat, he can’t help but move his feet. If the going gets tough, he keeps
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso man is facing aggravated assault charges after police accused him of shooting a woman. The shooting happened on the 4400 block of Hueco Avenue in Central El Paso on April 2. Officers were called out on reports of family violence. When officers arrived on the scene, they
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, Catherine Nicholls, Celine Alkhaldi and Magdy Samaan, CNN Safa Babikir was sleeping in her aunt’s house in Khartoum when she was woken by gunfire. At first, she thought it was the sound of children playing with fireworks. Then, she says, “the screams started.” Desperate to escape the fierce fighting in Sudan’s
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous, record-breaking heat waves are set to increase as the climate crisis intensifies, and they will be particularly devastating in countries and regions that are least prepared for them, according to a new study. Scientists analyzed temperature data sets spanning more than 60 years, as well as climate models, to calculate
Continue Reading Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 96, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN.
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The US Supreme Court decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion led to significant restrictions to abortion access, but hasn’t affected public support, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. About a year after the court’s Dobbs decision, 80% of US adults say that their views
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Community Foundations Plaza Classic Film Festival is bring back their screenwriting competition for a second year. The competition is open to anyone 18 and older. Requirements for submission must be a feature-length script of no more than 120 pages. There are no genre restrictions. Screenplays must be
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EL PASO, Texas— Police are investigating a shooting at an east El Paso bar. It happened at the 1600 Block of North Zaragoza Rd right across from Oasis lanes. Officials say they received the call Tuesday around 12:30 am. No injuries were reported. Our ABC-7 crew at the scene spoke with witnesses in the area
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