The El Paso City Council unanimously agreed to work with the University of Texas at El Paso on a $40 million dollar grant from the federal government in aerospace and manufacturing.

The El Paso City Council approved a $316 million dollar plan to improve the international airport’s airfield, terminals and install solar panels to parking areas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Department of Transportation to remove political expressions from roadways.

A delegation of representatives from El Paso’s Diocese, Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera presented letters from immigrants to Pope Leo the Fourteenth in Rome.

The El Paso County Commissioner’s Court narrowly voted to send a letter to the Texas Department of Transportation in opposition of the proposed plan for widening Interstate 10 at Downtown.

In this edition of the news week in review, KTEP’s Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes discuss an ongoing federal lawsuit over a new Congressional map approved by the Texas legislature this year.

DACA recipient Catalina Xochitl Santiago is free after nearly 60 days in ICE custody. A panel of federal judges in El Paso heard the second day of arguments on a lawsuit seeking to block Texas' new congressional map from being used in the 2026 midterm election.

A lawsuit alleging Texas has violated the rights of Black and Latino voters with a new Congressional map began today in an El Paso federal courtroom.

El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said she is not confident the federal government will avoid a shutdown tonight. A major test of Texas’ new controversial congressional map begins this week in El Paso.

About one-hundred mourners gathered at Eastwood Park over the weekend for a candlelight vigil for Xavier Hernandez, a man who died after an arrest by El Paso police on Interstate 10 in July.