Celebrations of the Jewish Holiday Hanukkah begin this weekend. A West El Paso Synagogue will host a public lighting of a Menorah to commemorate the holiday. KTEP’s Aaron Montes spoke with Rabbi Levi Greenberg of Chabad El Paso about Hanukkah and celebrations this weekend.

El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson cast a tie-breaking vote over a proposed settlement with the Texas Gas Service in its request to raise rates and consolidate services throughout Texas.

The rate of food insecurity in El Paso is twice that compared to the rest of Texas. Sun Metro will provide free rides on Thanksgiving.

The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted unanimously in support of a resolution criticizing Trump administration advisor Tom Homan, ahead of his December visit to the University of Texas at El Paso.

Investigators are looking into the 10th death this year inside El Paso County jails. A federal judge has issued a blistering dissent after two other judges on the same panel blocked Texas’ congressional redistricting map from taking effect next year.

The El Paso City Council removed their discussion on a newly proposed street maintenance fee from their meeting this week. Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor charge against former City Council representative Joe Molinar for failing to stop and report a collision.

A three judge panel in El Paso ruled Texas cannot use its new redistricted map for the upcoming midterm elections. Instead, the map will revert to the 2021 Congressional map

The El Paso City Council denied the Texas Gas Service’s proposed 27 percent rate increase on users in West Texas today. The Texas Department of Transportation has approved nearly $37 million dollars in funding for pedestrian and bicycle projects in El Paso.

Former state representative Joe Pickett criticized the city of El Paso’s proposed new street maintenance fee. A circus at the El Paso County Coliseum has sparked a protest this evening. Animal advocates are calling on Carden International Circus to free Betty.

City officials celebrated the start of construction of the first industrial park on airport land since the 1970s. The groundbreaking coincided with an announcement from a Wisconsin-based electrical components manufacturer building a factory in East El Paso County.