EL PASO,Texas – El Paso is losing a historian and by extension, an iconic part of Borderland history. You may have seen him around town, a walking piece of El Paso’s past, from the ten-gallon hat and boots to the western ensemble, which could easily be mistaken for a stand-in as John Wesley Hardin in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – In just a few short days, adults 21 and over can legally buy recreational marijuana in New Mexico. However, producers worry there will be a shortage. The state has capped the number of plants producers can grow. “Unfortunately, there will be a shortage,” said Armando Rascón, the director of cultivation
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A proposed hike to your electric bill has been on hold for nearly a year. El Paso Electric requested a rate increase of $41.8 million back in July 2021. The increase was meant to be spread out among homeowners, businesses and other entities. El Paso Electric said the increase is
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EL PASO, Texas-El Paso made a top ten list this week, one of the nation’s least affordable cities. That’s the topic of this Sunday’s ABC-7 Xtra. The article quotes a company called Goodhire, a background screening software company. The list shows the city of El Paso as number 7. The closest cities are Modesto, California,
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EL PASO, Texas — It may be called pain at the pump, but it’s El Pasoan’s wallets that are taking the biggest hit.Gas prices are soaring to record-breaking levels. As of Friday, El Paso is seeing the highest gas prices in the state of Texas with an average of $4.19 per gallon.Amarillo has the lowest
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EL PASO, Texas – The next chapter in the Texas Tech Graduate School of Biomedical Services Center was unveiled, an addition to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of El Paso with a historic gift from philanthropist Rick Francis. “Ginger and I are proud to give $10 million to endow the medical school Sciences,”
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EL PASO, Texas- If you’re looking for a job in the Borderland, good news. Not only are there “Job Opening” signs posted throughout our area, but companies are also opening businesses from one end of the Borderland to another. You may recall Amazon is opening a 625,000 square-foot facility in Horizon employing as many as
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EL PASO, Texas – Early voting starts Monday. ABC-7 Xtra Sunday edition examines one race that pits two states representatives against each other. The 2020 census led to the redrawing of Texas district maps, eliminating District 76. Claudia Ordaz-Perez held the District 76 seat. But she is now running to represent District 79, currently held by
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EL PASO, Texas – According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there are as many as 9,643 migrant children in HHS custody. They are part of what UTEP Ph.D. Candidate Georgina Sanchez Garcia calls the new wave of migrants. As part of her dissertation, Sanchez Garcia took on the task of finding
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EL PASO, Texas-The bodies of four women found in Juarez inside plastic bags raises concerns about a possible uptick in violence against women in Juarez. Two of those women were found dismembered inside those plastic bags. They were a married lesbian couple with children. Chihuahua and Juarez officials find these and other crimes so alarming
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas – ABC-7 Sunday Xtra travels to Hudspeth County, where officials report a significant spike in the number of migrant bodies turning up in the county’s mountains. Before 2019, sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol reported discovering between two and three bodies a year. Now they are finding more than 20 bodies every year.
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EL PASO, Texas — If you’ve walked into a hospital and believe you are seeing fewer nurses or hospital staff, you’re not alone. Those same nurses are telling ABC-7 they see fewer co-workers working alongside them and have to pick up the extra load, many times to the point of exhaustion. Sunday on ABC-7 Xtra,
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EL PASO, Texas — An issue facing many borderland residents: getting tested after the holidays. This is not the first time you or your neighbors have faced this issue. We first saw long lines for Covid testing in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. Back then, wait times were anywhere from three to five
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EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans have witnessed the evolution of downtown El Paso over the decades. From a bustling, vibrant downtown shopping district, to the demolition of city hall to make room for Southwest University Park, and even to Borderland’s newest high rise – the West Star building. But there’s another possible project in
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EL PASO, Texas — Not everyone is a cat lover. In fact, several El Pasoans have recently been charged with animal cruelty for going after the four-legged furry feral cats with the intent to hurt, and sometimes kill them. To be clear, the difference between a stray cat and a feral cat is a stray
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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, furloughs and layoffs during the pandemic, the athletic department is looking at what could be new pressure on its budget — but one the university is rooting
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EL PASO, Texas — Covid-19 deaths across the Borderland are down, as are hospitalizations. In El Paso, vaccination rates are almost at 77%, the closest we’ve been to what health experts consider herd immunity. That’s the good news. The bad news is Covid cases among children are going up.That could be because the Covid vaccine
Continue Reading El PASO, Texas — Storms like the ones the Borderland has been experiencing this month are all too common these days, with a deluge of several inches of storm water raging down roads and taking out anything it its path. What has happened this month was darkly reminiscent for El Pasoans of the 2006 storms,
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EL PASO, Texas — Now that the CDC says fully vaccinated people can remove their masks both indoors and outdoors, state and local governments are weighing in. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says municipalities cannot force you to wear a mask or they could face fines if they do. But El Paso’s mayor and county judge
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EL Paso, Texas — El Paso is one of the largest U.S. metropolitan cities without a law school, but that could soon change. Right now, Texas state lawmakers are working to try to bring a law school to El Paso. According to our news partners at the El Paso Inc., the Texas House of Representatives
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