EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Students at Libertas Academy at Americas High School took an active role in democracy by speaking with candidates running in local races. The academy hosted city council candidate debates, and students spoke directly to candidates and asked questions. Local teenagers took a deeper look into the electoral process and gained
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — History was made in Texas during the midterm elections. James Talarico delivered Democrats their first statewide win since 1988. And Gina Hinojosa is headed to the Governor’s mansion, the first Democrat to win there since 1990. While most eyes were on the race for senate and governor in Texas, Democrats are projected to win
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — With Election Day just one day away, ABC-7 continues its coverage of key races across the Borderland. Republican Greg Cunningham is challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District seat. ABC-7’s Marcel Clarke sat down with Cunningham for a one-on-one interview to discuss his campaign and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Its one of the federal law enforcement agencies that Borderland residents likely have the most contact with every day. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is charged with both securing the border and making sure lawful trade, travel and transit of goods can continue. Their mission covers all the international bridges and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tuesday, Doña Ana County Commissioners unanimously voted to have legal and county management provide notice to the Project Jupiter data center project of a potential breach of agreement about a proposed power plant. Commissioner Chair Manuel Sanchez made a motion to authorize the county to provide notice of any breach
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A new national advertising campaign is urging Americans to get screened for colorectal cancer while honoring those who’ve lost their lives to cancer, including an El Paso woman. The ad featuring actor and cancer advocate Patrick Dempsey aims to memorialize people who’ve lost their lives to colorectal cancer while stressing
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UPDATE (Oct. 27, 2026): City Representative for District 1, Alejandra Chavez, said she placed an agenda item to direct the city manager and city attorney to evaluate potential restrictions on heavy commercial truck traffic. Tuesday, city council approved the item. The item directs the city manager and city attorney to coordinate with the Texas Department
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Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate James Talarico made a campaign stop in El Paso Monday as he looks to gain support from voters ahead of the November 3rd election. ABC-7’s Marcel Clarke sat down with Talarico for an exclusive one-on-one interview to discuss some of the biggest issues facing Texans, including affordability, immigration, border security
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The multi-hundred million dollar Downtown Deck Plaza project could reshape the landscape of the heart of El Paso – if the funding can be figured out with some important deadlines in mind. Recent major donations in the tens of millions have increased the total financial commitment to making it a reality.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Thousands of miles away, the Pacific Ocean is heating up, and the effects could reach all the way to the Borderland this winter. The phenomenon, known as El Niño, could become one of the strongest on record since 1950, raising hopes for increased precipitation in a region struggling with years
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Recent ABC-7 reports on the travel expenses of El Paso county leaders is now creating impact in other parts of local government. The City of El Paso is set to discuss a new policy to increase transparency on how much city council and the mayor spend on official travel. A couple of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso voters are turning the tide this election season by turning out in record-breaking numbers. El Paso County broke its 2018 record for midterm early voting. Monday night, El Paso set the scene with more than 17,500 ballots cast — 264 more voters than the 17,236 votes logged on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow border wall construction to continue along the Big Bend, according to court records. The appeal filing from the White House came just one day after a federal judge in El Paso filed a blocking of the construction that was ruled on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More than billions of dollars worth of trade goods move across the bridge of the Americas between the U.S. and Mexico every year – not to mention thousands of vehicles and passengers every day. The current plan to modernize the bridge calls for the removal of commercial traffic, after pushes by
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Six members of the El Paso Fire Department’s water rescue team were deployed to central Texas on July of 2025. “This recognition is is a huge deal for us because given that we are remote out here in far West Texas, we don’t have the training environment that other departments
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It has been nearly two months since the start of the school year for the El Paso Independent School District, and one new initiative entering the classroom has become a talking point this fall: the central office substitute program. According to EPISD, the new initiative requires administrative employees in the
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SOCORRO, Texas (KVIA) — Tuesday, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from the CDC came to Socorro to explain its initiative of free health examinations to assess the health and nutritional status of people living in the United States. The survey’s Mobile Examination Center (MEC), a fully equipped medical clinic on wheels, travels
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A University of Texas at El Paso alumni started a candy business from his home. Now, Antonio Esparza said his work paid off as the business upgraded to a warehouse in East El Paso. Esparza established Sabores de Mexico three years ago, and it all started with TikTok. He sold
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The heavy rains in recent weeks led to flooding and more as the Borderland braced for the rare remnants of a hurricane coming through our area. While El Paso may have been spared the worst of the flooding as a whole, the entire region now faces expanded issues in the
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ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. (KVIA) – “I have to sacrifice something to stay alive,” said Joseph Carey, owner of Lake Shore Boat Storage. He’s one of many business owners in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, seeing fewer tourists visit every year. Elephant Butte Lake is at 3.9% capacity, according to state park officials. That number increased from
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — After two months of waiting, El Paso residents were invited by the Marathon Refinery in South-Central El Paso to a meet-and-greet presentation and forum organized at Riverside High School in the Lower Valley on Tuesday night.Elected officials at the city and state level from Mayor Renard Johnson to State Rep.
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(KVIA) — With Election Day less than a month away, ABC-7 is continuing to bring voters conversations with the candidates seeking to represent them. In the race for New Mexico governor, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the Democratic nominee, is facing former Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull, the Republican nominee. ABC-7 originally
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Commissioner of Education was in the Borderland this week, and ABC-7 got the chance to speak with him about the priorities and challenges facing public education in the state. Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath gave the keynote address at the CREEED Education summit on Thursday, and ABC-7
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Editor’s note: For transparency, ABC-7 added full interviews with El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and Precinct 2 Commissioner David Stout. You can watch them by scrolling through the videos above. You can also watch Samaniego’s full interview here, and the full interview with Stout here. To clarify, the public records reviewed cover travel planned
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — County leaders are looking at increasing accountability and transparency on where elected officials travel and how much they spend. This follows an ABC-7 Xtra investigation into the nearly quarter of a million dollars of taxpayer funds spent on travel expenses by members of commissioners court over the last several years.
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EL PASO, Texas, (KVIA) — Heavy rains in the Borderland left some homes in need of repairs. The El Paso Police Department urged homeowners to slow down and take their time to avoid any repair and insurance scams. Heavy rain flooded streets in the El Paso area.(Courtesy: KVIA) EPPD said for high-pressure tactics or requests
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It’s the year 2026, and most women know the importance of getting their annual mammogram. Still, about half of women say they are scared or anxious about going. Desert Imaging in El Paso has a unique approach to calming those fears. When women are called back to the exam room
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — When employees at Overfly Sports crafted a baseball bat for St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua Báez earlier this year, they never thought he would go on to accomplish the unimaginable! Overfly Sports is a custom bat-making company that’s based in El Paso. It manufactures more tan 30,000 baseball bats every
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)—Overfly Sports in Downtown El Paso has become a leading baseball bat manufacturer, creating bats for major and minor-league players. Now, the shop has another accolade it can add to its growing list! Earlier this season, the shop custom-created a baseball bat for St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua Baez. During a game
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Some weeks ago, ABC-7’s Andrew J. Polk spoke with the new national chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Pete Vasquez in a very unique location: between the two border walls under construction near the Santa Teresa port of entry. In the one-on-one interview only with ABC-7, Vasquez explained why two
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