EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The city’s chief internal auditor released his report on fuel card usage by members of city council and the mayor for the first four months of this year. In that report, the auditor, Edmundo Calderon, breaks down ten different videos he was able to view, taken from convenience stores where
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Las Cruces man and his dog were saved by quick-thinking firefighters after they became stuck in a swift current. The water rescue operation happened late Wednesday. At approximately 8:40 p.m., the fire department responded to an emergency call from a passerby, who reported hearing a man’s desperate calls
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Rio Vista Behavioral Health has expanded access to mental health support on their campus. The upgrades to the campus include an additional 40 beds — as well as a new outpatient building. While Rio Vista covers the whole breath of mental heath challenges, they provide tailored treatment for certain groups
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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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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — 28-year-old Matthew Mills is in the Dona Ana County Detention Center. Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested Mills on a felony bomb threat charge. Jail records state Mills is from Carlsbad, New Mexico. Federal agents transferred him to the Dona Ana County Detention Center June 7. He remains in custody. ABC-7
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Public Schools is giving out free breakfast and lunch this summer. It’s available to children ages one to 18 from Monday through Friday, June 6 to July 11. The only exception is July 4. The districts says that children must show up to the participating campuses and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Officials say 37-year-old Francisco Hernandez was airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso after a car slammed into him along East Idaho Avenue near Alamo Street in Las Cruces. Investigators say Hernandez was bicycling westbound on Idaho when a SUV traveling the same direction hit him from behind.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Local first responders in El Paso and Las Cruces are calling on the community and each other to donate blood for the annual ‘Respond to the Call’ Blood Drive hosted by Vitalant. This is the 15th year the event has been put on which has resulted in more than 4,000
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — One of the best known migrant shelter along the border has a new director. The former leader, Father Javier Calvillo, served for over 13 years. Father Francisco Javier Bueno Guillén will replace Calvillo as the head of the shelter. He has been serving there for two years. Juarez’s bishop Guadalupe Torres
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Non-profit organization “Call Me ABLE” and world ranked one handed golfer Gianna Rojas, hosted a special event for media members to learn about golfing with disabilities. The event was meant to showcase how people with different disabilities adapt to the golf course. Members of the media worked on hitting a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Las Cruces Police Department, in collaboration with the Army National Guard and the NMSU College of Arts and Sciences, hosted its annual summer youth camp this week. The camp, running for nearly a decade, is a five-day program, jam-packed with diverse activities and presentations. “We’ve been running this
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of El Paso is marking the conclusion of the first year of the Love Your Block (LYB) Grant Program, with an event celebrating the grantees, volunteers, and partners who made the program a success. The celebration will happen 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Center for Civic Empowerment at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A father and his two adult sons are facing murder charges after police say they got into a road rage incident with another driver. This happened Tuesday evening on the 5900 block of Doniphan in El Paso’s Upper Valley. Police say 53-year-old Raul Alberto Orozco was driving along Doniphan when
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Adult Protective Services is hosting its 14th annual Crimes Against the Elderly Conference Wednesday. It’s focused on protecting seniors from neglect and crimes focused on their age. It comes in the first week of Elder Abuse Awareness Month. The conference is open to walk-ins, and is being held at the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — According to court documents recently obtained by ABC-7, 59-year-old Angie Flores was arrested after one of her employees filmed her dropping a child onto the ground. Court documents state that Flores is the director of the Discovery Child Development Center. The employee contacted police to show them the video
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Here a list of road closures scheduled for Wednesday, June 7 for El Paso County and the City of Las Cruces. For updates in El Paso, click here. For a look at more information from TxDOT, click here. For updates in Las Cruces, click here. For look at road closures for the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A driver is dead after police say he tried to fight another person in his car before falling into traffic on I-10. The dead person, identified only as a 29-year-old Hispanic man, was driving along I-10 going westbound when he struck the center median several times near the Reynolds exit.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Crimes Against Persons investigators are looking into a shooting on the corner of Doniphan and Montoya in the Upper Valley, a few blocks south of Artcraft. Police officials tell ABC-7 one person was rushed to the hospital. Their condition is unknown. Police have not yet said if any arrests have
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County will receive $28 million from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to improve water access in Montana Vista. The colonia has lacked consistent, safe water access since its establishment. The money from TWDB allows officials to plan, acquire, design, and construct water and wastewater system projects. The
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — La Semilla Food Center built a brand new garden for the students at Monte Vista Elementary School in Las Cruces. The area on campus allows students to get their hands dirty planting, shoveling, and watering the plants. Students listen to a gardener with the La Semilla Food Center Experts
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By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News June 5, 2023 “Without access to water lines, Texas colonias residents are pulling water from the desert air” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The House of Representatives Homeland Security Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee is holding a hearing Monday. They will be “examining DHS’ failure to prepare for the termination of Title 42.” Witnesses include Benjamine “Carry” Huffman, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and Blas Nuñez-Neto, Assistant Secretary for Border
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Since the end of Title 42 on May 11, unlawful entries along the southern border have decreased 70% from their record highs, according to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security this morning. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 3,400 US Border Patrol (USBP) encounters in between ports of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Las Cruces Fire Department Technical Rescue Team helped get an injured hiker off the Organ Mountains Monday. That’s according to the Las Cruces Fire Department. The hiker, identified only as a woman in her 30s, hurt herself while hiking the Dripping Springs Trail around 5 p.m. Emergency crews
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Police arrested 59-year-old Angie Flores on two felony counts of Abuse of a Child. That’s according to records from the Dona Ana County Detention Center. Officers arrested Flores on the 2900 block of Del Rey Boulevard June 5 just before 12:30 p.m. Officials had previously issued a
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(CNN) — More and more adults are taking over-the-counter melatonin to get to sleep, and some may be using it at dangerously high levels, a study has found. The overall use among the US adult population is still “relatively low,” but the study does “document a significant many-fold increase in melatonin use in the past
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Here a list of road closures scheduled for Tuesday, June 6 for El Paso County and the City of Las Cruces. For updates in El Paso, click here. For a look at more information from TxDOT, click here. For updates in Las Cruces, click here. For look at road closures for the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — City Council voted to uphold the existing buffer zone around cannabis businesses in city limits. That zone requires dispensaries and other cannabis-related companies to operate 300 feet away from residential areas and other cannabis companies. Las Cruces representatives voted 4 to 3 in favor of the buffer zone. The
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso Chef is hoping to be named a James Beard Award winner. Emiliano Marentes is chef and owner of Elemi in downtown El Paso. The organization named him a finalist for the coveted award earlier this year. Marentes is a graduate of EPCC’s Culinary Arts program. He made
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of El Paso’s Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) was set to brief city council members Monday on the progress of an investigation into city officials’ usage of taxpayer-funded purchasing, travel, and fuel cards. Instead, Chief Internal Auditor Edmundo Calderon told city council members to await another meeting on
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