EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Artificial Intelligence is a growing presence in our lives. From the personal assistants on our phones, social media, smart home devices, even autonomous vehicles. AI is also taking a hold in certain industries, from healthcare, to education, even in the creative industry. It’s how AI has found its way into
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Tech Health Sciences Center El Paso was established as a standalone university within the Texas Tech system in 2013 and had an immediate impact on the medical community in the borderland. Since then it has changed the way borderland residents view medical education and healthcare needs. This Sunday on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Inside an operating room at University Medical Center’s Surgical Center, there is a blue box that’s no bigger than your home DVR. It’s artificial intelligence. Doctors at UMC are using it to during a colonoscopy, an exam that looks for changes, such as swollen, irritated tissues, polyps or cancer in the colon and rectum. The National Cancer Institute says
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(KVIA) — This week on ABC-7 Xtra, Sunday edition, guest-host Erik Elken sat down with people involved in the Walmart shooting case to talk about the conclusion of the federal sentencing hearing. The judge gave the shooter, Patrick Crusius, 90 concurrent life sentences. You can watch ABC-7 Xtra every Sunday night at 10:35.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Off Main Street near downtown Las Cruces, a grey building towers over the tree-lined street. This is the home of Electronic Caregiver, the company which created ‘Addison,’ A 3-dimensional, virtual caregiver. Addison is like your own personal computer. It can remind you when it’s time to check your vitals,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of El Paso is reviewing a new study that looks at streetcar operations and costs. The streetcar has been at the center of debate due to low ridership. The newly refurbished system opened in late 2018, but since the pandemic, ridership has dipped dramatically. Now city leaders are
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More than $15,000 worth of gift cards purchased in 2022 for the City of El Paso’s ‘U-Matter Program’ remain undistributed as of June 2023, according to documents obtained by ABC-7 through an open records request. As ABC-7 reported earlier this month, a transaction list of the procurement card (P-card) of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — On this week’s edition of ABC-7 Xtra, guest-host Stephanie Valle dives into the future of residential solar power in El Paso. Guests from El Paso Electric and Sunshine City Solar joined Stephanie to talk about how Borderland residents are using solar power at home, and how that alternative source of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A plan and timeline to help reduce speeding issues on Emory Road is expected within the next few days, City officials said, after a man and his dog were killed last week when they were hit by a speeding car in the Upper Valley. El Paso Police said 32-year-old Cody
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UPDATE: An official from the El Paso Sports Commission confirmed the old stones are not graves. “What happened is that there was an animal shelter that was there initially, that was demolished as a part of working with the county, so that way we could add more parking,” said Antonio Rodriguez, Director of Events for
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — There is no denying that technology plays a huge role in our lives now, but it also will loom large over future jobs for which our students need to be prepared. ABC-7 went to Tornillo, Texas, home of one of the smallest and most rural districts in El Paso County, to see
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OROGRANDE, New Mexico (KVIA) — In the mountains near Orogrande, New Mexico lie several private mining claims with many types of ores, crystals, gems, rocks, and fossils to offer. The only catch is, you have to do a bit of mining to find them. Local miner, prospector, and owner of Rockstargems on Instagram and eBay,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has been bringing you exclusive reporting on the use of your taxpayer dollars by city leaders and staff, specifically the use of gas cards and city issued credit cards, also known as “P” cards. While few current or former city leaders are coming forward to talk about the issue,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is acknowledging our nation’s youth is suffering a mental health crisis, and he’s pointing to social media as one of the culprits. In fact, he issued a major advisory warning about the profound risk social media poses to children and teens. The Surgeon General wrote in part, “Nearly
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Department of Public Safety state trooper pursuits of suspected smugglers happened at an exponentially greater rate in El Paso in 2023, according to data obtained by ABC-7. There have been more than 5,000 pursuits involving Texas DPS state troopers since the inception of Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An updated emergency driving and vehicular pursuit policy from U.S. Customs and Border Protection is now in effect. The letter from the acting commissioner, Troy A. Miller, says the updated policy does not prohibit vehicular pursuits, but the policy “restricts pursuits in certain circumstances that are considered especially dangerous and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A city representative and a former member of the city ethic’s review commission shared their thoughts on the alleged excessive use of city-issued gas cards by one former city representative, as well as a current city council member on ABC-7 Xtra Sunday. The city’s financial audit and oversight committee reviewed
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso is home to one of the last Glamour Shots photography studios left in the country. At its peak, there were 350 Glamour Shots studios throughout the country. Now there are only two remaining. The other location is located in New Jersey. The photography studios were popular in the
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — With the upcoming lifting of Title 42, some migrants in Juarez are still looking to apply for asylum the legal way. Most of these migrants have tried to apply for months but have been unsuccessful. ABC-7 got a closer look at how migrants try to apply and how they use the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the borderland continues to grapple with the migrant crisis ahead of the lifting of Title 42, other at-risk populations are taking a direct hit. “We’re very concerned about displacing the local homeless population with regard to the large number of migrants that have come in,” said John Martin, Director
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 Xtra, Sunday edition, examines the migrant situation in our city as it continues to evolve by the day, a crisis intensifying to the point city officials were forced to close down Father Rahm avenue directly in front of sacred heart church. The scenes are overwhelming, thousands of migrants camping out in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An ailment that’s all too common among Borderland residents took a serious toll on one El Paso man in particular. ABC-7 is sharing his story in hopes of educating others and hopefully preventing the same fate – or worse. Anthony Molinar was 32 years old when he had to begin
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Update: The city of El Paso’s Financial Oversight and Audit Committee will meet Thursday, May 4 to discuss the internal audit. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso City Mayor Oscar Leeser says an audit found inconsistencies in the usage of taxpayer-funded gasoline credit cards that are provided to city council members for city-related business. Read our initial article. In a phone interview with ABC-7, Mayor Leeser
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) –The Mexican Consulate spoke to ABC-7 about the impact of fentanyl on the border. “Mexico is sorry about the crisis the U.S. is facing in terms of fentanyl,” said Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León, Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso. “We know that this is a problem that affects both
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the borderland prepares for the lifting of Title 42 on May 11, concerns are growing over the health of the migrants staying here in El Paso. ABC-7 spoke to City/County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza about the issue. Dr. Ocaranza says the health care providers currently tending to the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The newly appointed Border Patrol chief for the El Paso Sector, Anthony Scott Good, is reacting to ABC-7’s special report, “Migrants on the Run” which ran Thursday night.Saul sits down for a one-on-one interview with the new chief, covering a wide range of issues, from holes in the border fence,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Pasoans living within the city limits will get to decide on several propositions on the May 6 ballot. But the one getting the most attention, certainly on the airwaves, online ads, billboards, and even on some mobile billboards, is Proposition K, also known as the Climate Charter. The measure would
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the number of migrants coming into the country illegally through our borders grows, so do the number of pursuits by Department of Public Safety troopers. Although no official numbers have been released, news coverage of pursuits and crashes has gone up dramatically from one end of the Borderland to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 Sunday Xtra sits down with acclaimed El Paso author, Benjamin Alire Saenz. Saenz is a former UTEP professor. He is the first Hispanic winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and American Book Award. Most recently, Saenz received the 2023 Texas Medal of Arts award in the literary arts category. Raised
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