#GivingTuesday: Operation Noel spreads holiday warmth to children
EL PASO, Texas — The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is known as Giving Tuesday. It’s a day where people are encouraged to create a massive wave of…
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#GivingTuesday: Child Crisis Center asks for community to donate children’s clothes
EL PASO, Texas– The Child Crisis Center of El Paso serves as an emergency shelter for children up to age 13. During this pandemic, the shelter is…
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‘She was full of life’: Family mourns Las Cruces educator who died after battle with Covid-19
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Before losing her battle with Covid-19, Sylvia Garcia was compassionate, generous and a mother to the hundreds of the…
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‘It was inevitable’: After 110 years, Tortugas cancels annual pilgrimage
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The board of directors for Los Indigenes de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe on Tuesday announced the cancellation of the…
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CDC says health care workers, nursing home residents should be 1st to get virus vaccine
ATLANTA, Georgia — Vaccine advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Tuesday to recommend that both health care…
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Attorney General Barr finds no evidence of fraud that would change presidential election outcome
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has not uncovered any evidence of widespread voter…
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Borderland small businesses relying much more on online sales this holiday season
EL PASO, Texas — This past Thanksgiving weekend was a record breaking one for online sales. However, analysts estimated this year’s Cyber Monday to…
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Covid separated an El Paso couple, then brought them back together in an ICU dubbed ‘honeymoon suite’
EL PASO, Texas — It may sound like lyrics to a song, but ABC-7 found love in one of the most unlikely places, in the Covid unit on the third floor…
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‘We’re at war, we’re by ourselves’: El Paso healthcare workers fatigued, feel lack of community support
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso has seen record-breaking Covid-19 hospitalizations for months causing a strain on local hospitals and healthcare workers.…
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Sun Bowl board to vote to cancel game for 1st time since 1935
EL PASO, Texas — Sun Bowl officials confirmed to ABC-7 on Monday night that its board of directors is set to vote to cancel this year’s game due to…
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UTEP says Covid-19 tests that led to cancelation of Rice football game actually were false positives
EL PASO, Texas — Saturday’s football game between UTEP and Rice was canceled due to 11 Covid-19 positives tests within the Miners program. But new…
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‘We are definitely in the red’: Some Las Cruces business owners say they may not survive until 2021
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — If 2020’s pandemic grows worse, three Las Cruces business owners say they might not be able to stay open come 2021. “We are…
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City of El Paso small business grants ‘depleted,’ some grants still available for county businesses
EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso’s Economic Development Department told ABC-7 grant funding provided through CARES Act funding has been…
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New Mexico governor outlines re-opening plan after shutdown, calls nearby El Paso ‘horrific’ on virus
SANTA FE, New Mexico – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, alongside other state officials, held a briefing Monday on the current trajectory of the…
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Your guide to hundreds of special Cyber Monday shopping deals
If you thought Black Friday was peak deals day, think again: Cyber Monday is here, and it’s your last chance to shop the year’s best deals on…
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Victim seriously wounded in east El Paso stabbing; officer hurt as police cars collide at scene
EL PASO, Texas — Police were on the scene of a stabbing in east El Paso on Sunday night. It happened a bit after 9 p.m. at Circo’s Bar and Kitchen…
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ABC-7 Xtra goes one-on-one with Margo, Lesser ahead of El Paso’s Dec. 12th mayoral runoff election
EL PASO, Texas — It’s been a tumultuous term for Mayor Dee Margo facing several emergency situations for the city of El Paso. First was the…
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Medical tents removed from UMC; patient surges to be handled at El Paso Convention Center hospital
EL PASO, Texas — Medical mobile tents provided by the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force for triage are no longer erected outside University…
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Recycling suspension to save City of El Paso $7,900 a week, but your collection bill won’t go down
EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso won’t be picking up your blue recycling bins for the rest of the year — and no, your bill won’t be going down.…
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‘Beloved’ Las Cruces teacher dies after being hospitalized with Covid-19; LCPS ‘devastated’
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces Public Schools officials said the “pandemic just hit home for us” as they announced the death of a longtime…
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$9 million jackpot-winning Lotto Texas ticket sold in El Paso
El PASO, Texas — Someone in El Paso woke up as a multi-millionaire on Sunday morning, according to Texas Lottery officials. They tweeted that a $9…
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UTEP halts football program in wake of ‘multiple’ positive virus tests, cancels Dec. 4 game
EL PASO, Texas – In the wake of several members of the Miners football program testing positive for Covid-19, which forced the cancellation of…
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NMSU gets past Arizona Christian for first win of season, 83-77
PHOENIX, Arizona — It was anything but an easy win for the New Mexico State Aggies, but a win is a win. Sunday, the Aggies opened their 2020…
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Biden’s doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog
WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden has hairline fractures in his “mid-foot” and will “likely require a walking…
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Fauci tells ABC News: U.S. may see ‘surge upon surge’ of virus in weeks ahead due to Thanksgiving travel
NEW: “We may see a surge upon a surge. We don’t want to frighten people but that’s just the reality,” Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @MarthaRaddatz,…
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El Paso businesses depended on online sales for Small Business Saturday
EL PASO, Texas — Now more than ever, local businesses are relying on the communities support to keep their doors open. Many local businesses are…
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El Paso County begins moving mobile morgues to new central location
EL PASO, Texas – El Paso County has begun the process of moving the refrigerated trailers used to store bodies to a central morgue facility, the…
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One-on-one with Oscar Leeser on why he wants to return to the mayor’s office, pandemic strategy
EL PASO, Texas — Oscar Leeser was the 53rd mayor of El Paso from 2013 to 2017 and now he is running to try to get his job back. He was the top…
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‘She’s one of a kind’: El Paso mourns death of Southwest University founder Yolanda Arriola
EL PASO, Texas — Southwest University founder and CEO Yolanda Arriola has died of a heart attack, her son has confirmed in a social media post.…
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Water district says new border barrier along American Canal threatens El Paso’s water supply
EL PASO, Texas — Efforts currently underway by the Trump administration to erect a new border barrier in El Paso are putting the city’s water supply…
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