EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – As the Fourth of July approaches quickly, the community is gearing up to celebrate throughout the Borderland. KTSM has created a list of events on where the community can enjoy and commemorate this holiday. The Hottest Independence Day Celebration Photo credit of Van Horn, Texas Facebook page In honor of […]
This screenshot shows a family photo being used by Sylvia Annette Sundermann on a GoFundMe page to help cover medical and funeral expenses for Jorge Guillen and Lizette Zambrano. Zambrano is in critical condition after both were electrocuted in a deadly hot tub incident. The El Paso woman critically injured after a deadly hot tub […]
UPDATE: The water main break is 24 inches and the sinkhole has swallowed two cars, according to a spokesperson with El Paso Water. The spokesperson says the water line was previously identified as one that needed to be replaced and will be replaced soon. EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A sinkhole displaced close to 20 […]
The River Lodge motel has sat at the intersection of Highway 46 and Highway 101 for close to 80 years. Passers-by and locals have long grown accustomed to the lodge’s eye-catching sign and its mid-century architecture that beckoned weary travelers into its modest and homey rooms. But today, if you peer past the sign you […]
A county court judge dismissed 59 cases against migrants accused of participating in a border “riot” in April near El Paso’s Lower Valley after ruling his court had no jurisdiction, officials said. County Court of Law Judge Ruben Morales dismissed the cases against the migrants June 6, El Paso Public Defender Kelli Childress said. “The […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A new botanical garden is being planned for the El Paso region. El Paso Children’s Garden announced its plans to build a new public botanical garden that is “designed to become a premier destination for the local community and visitors across the country,” according to a news release. Plans were […]
Instead of attending his high school graduation ceremony, an El Paso-area teenager was in jail after being arrested in a migrant smuggling high-speed chase on the West Side, court officials said. The Operation Lone Star case is among the continuing risks young people face getting involved in border migrant smuggling vehicle pursuits on El Paso’s […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Thousands of delegates will be in El Paso from Thursday, June 6, to Saturday, June 8 for the Texas Democratic Convention. During this time, several high-profile state and national political leaders will be speaking with party members during training sessions and interest caucuses. The first night consisted of a kick-off reception […]
A man in a black ski mask wielding a rifle and his accomplice are sought in connection with an attempted armed robbery of a bar in South-Central El Paso. The unsolved case is Crime Stoppers of El Paso’s Crime of the Week. Crime Stoppers this week released black-and-white security camera video of the May 4 […]
In 1922, the El Paso Herald ran a semiregular column, “Oddities In The El Paso News.” From mosquito watching at City Hall to a banana peel slip at Alligator park, following are one-paragraph “Oddities” in the Borderland ― excerpts from some those columns: Watching mosquitos hatch Aug. 5, 1922 Watching mosquitos hatch is the newest […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 20-year-old El Paso man was recently arrested after evading arrest last week in West El Paso, according to the El Paso Police Department. Police say Tye Mora, 20, was arrested and charged with evading arrest or detention with a vehicle last Friday night, May 24 after allegedly doing doughnuts […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Prairie dogs will not be returning to the El Paso Zoo. A mystery solved at the zoo in November of last year revealed that two separate colonies of the animals were killed by a rare bacterial infection and tunnel collapse, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]