E-mails between ESD and EP Water show confusion over billing “glitch”
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Water customers who were inadvertently overcharged for their Environmental Services Department fees should seeing a refund…
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Several city representatives to direct City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to lower El Paso tax rate
EL PASO, Texas – Several city representatives say they will direct City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to decrease the City of El Paso tax rate. District 5…
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Clint ISD teachers to receive up to $12K in bonuses thanks to $16 million grant
EL PASO, Texas – A non-profit in partnership with Clint ISD was awarded a $16 million dollar grant over a three-year period to help compensate…
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El Paso chef up for prestigious James Beard award for outstanding chef
EL PASO, Texas – Running a restaurant is a challenge. Running one with the pressures of a pandemic can be daunting. Despite the odds, one El Paso…
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Borderland grapples with growing mental health demand
Crisis hotline call volume surges in wake of Aug. 3 Tragedy, Pandemic EL PASO, Texas – The argument could be made that no community has had to…
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ABC-7 Xtra Depth: UTEP Head Coach Dimel’s incentives as Miners seek to make history
EL PASO — Success comes with a cost and UTEP could be getting ready to reward the coach of its most exciting program now. After deep salary cuts,…
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El Paso opens new Covid-19 mega-testing site due to increased demand
EL PASO, Texas — The city of El Paso opened a new mega-testing site for Covid-19 in east El Paso on Wednesday as worries about the Delta variant…
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Walmart’s Grand Candela lacks 23rd column; some names missing from plaques
EL PASO, Texas — The Grand Candela Memorial, it stands just feet away from the entrance to the Cielo Vista Walmart — where 23 lives were stolen,…
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Fox News says Abbott’s Texas border wall is a chain-link fence
DEL RIO, Texas — Fox News is giving an inside look at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall, which is actually a chain-link…
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Why UTEP’s leading tackler rode away from football before his senior season
EL PASO, Texas — Imagine choosing to put an end to the pursuit of a lifelong dream when it’s closest to becoming a reality. That’s exactly what…
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Las Cruces family celebrates weekend college graduations of mom and her 2 kids
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It’s graduation weekend, a special time for not just the graduate – but also their family and friends. One Las Cruces…
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City of El Paso spends $8M a year on recycling, but much of what’s collected ends up in landfills
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s recycling program is costing taxpayers roughly $8 million per year, but nearly a third of what is collected from the…
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El Paso natives lose everything in huge San Antonio apartment blaze
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A pair of El Paso natives are still trying to piece together their lives after losing everything in a massive apartment complex…
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El Pasoan who knows Tiger from PGA Tour hopes one of ‘best athletes in history’ can return to golf
EL PASO, Texas — There is still a lot we don’t know about what Tuesday’s serious car crash means for golf legend Tiger Woods going forward. But…
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UTEP’s Terry gets contract extension, Dimel doesn’t; both coaches take pay cuts
EL PASO, Texas — UTEP men’s head basketball coach Rodney Terry has been awarded a contract extension. ABC-7 obtained, through an open records…
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’66 Texas Western national champs inducted into College Basketball Hall of Fame
EL PASO, Texas — Immortal. That’s what the 1966 Texas Western national championship team now is after getting inducted as a class of 2020 member in…
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Loophole being used by some El Pasoans to get vaccinated despite not qualifying
EL PASO, Texas — The requirements for being in group 1B of the vaccination process is to be 65 years or older, or to have a chronic medical issue.…
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City of El Paso mega-site for virus vaccination has administered all 5,000 doses it received
EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso revealed Wednesday evening that it had now administered all 5,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses it received from the…
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Congresswoman Escobar on Capitol siege: ‘I thought there would be a mass shooter… shoot us all up’
WASHINGTON, DC — El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar was among the lawmakers who sheltered in place as a group of violent protesters forced their…
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As cuts are made to UTEP athletics, top 2 coaches have yet to take promised salary reductions
EL PASO, Texas — UTEP’s two highest-paid head coaches have yet to take salary reductions, but UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter says…
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