KTEP Newscast

Many school districts across the state are facing budget deficits, but this week we learned just how dire the situation is for EPISD during the school board meeting.

The U.S. Army has selected Global Investment Firm Carlyle to build and operate a commercial data center at Fort Bliss. The post announced the project will help the Army build A.I. capabilities faster than their competitors.

People from various faiths congregated at San Jacinto Plaza Tuesday night for the same reason. Ending the Trump administration’s efforts to detain and deport immigrants from across the country.

An attorney for the family of Victor Manuel Diaz who died while being held at the massive immigrant detention camp in Far East El Paso questions the federal government’s determination of how he died of suicide in mid-January.

President Donald Trump announced ICE agents will assist TSA at airports throughout the country amid a shutdown in Homeland Security operations. Senator Ted Cruz is proposing a strategy to break the stalemate over funding the Department of Homeland Security.

The El Paso County Commissioners Court entertained proposed amendments to its economic development agreement with Wurldwide, LLC a company formed to negotiate META’s deal with local governments for a data center in the Northeast.

The United Farm Workers union canceled several events throughout the country set to honor Cesar Chavez on March 31st amid accusations the late union leader abused girls for years.

With today’s vote the El Paso City Council called on the city attorney’s office to lay out a framework of preventing ICE from opening detention centers in city limits by the next meeting.

El Paso’s Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz called the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation efforts a grave moral evil, in a newly released pastoral letter. Deportations of Mexican nationals are down despite the ICE crackdown.

At the direction of the Public Service Board of directors, El Paso Water will formally evaluate any projected demands for water from the Lower Valley Water District, which serves county residents outside city limits.