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El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have a new detention facility in East El Paso County. Escobar said a private corporation received nearly $30 million dollars through a no-bid federal contract to increase detention space including another facility.

ICE is reporting another death at the massive detention camp here in El Paso. A Nicaraguan man is the third person to die in custody at the tent facility run by a private contractor.

A single vehicle roll over has brought traffic to a halt on Interstate 10 in Hudspeth County, according to the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office. The roll over happened near the Sierra Blanca Border Patrol checkpoint.

The Public Service Board approved El Paso Water’s new Water and Wastewater rates for 2026 today. El Paso Water says all residents living in the Northeast and portions of Central have service and adequate water pressure after a main break interrupted access over the weekend.

More than 100,000 people in the Northeast and portions of Central El Paso will remain under a boil water notice as crews work to repair a broken water main. The notice will remain in effect for at least another day though thousands of households have regained water service with adequate pressure, El Paso Water officials announced.

A break in a main water line over the weekend has impacted an estimated 100,000 El Pasoans. A 31-year-old triple-murder cold case began trial today. Arturo Ortega Garcia is charged with capital murder over the deaths of an East Side family on August 11th, 1994.

Sun Metro officials say the public transportation agency has reduced its operating budget by $5.8 million dollars for 2026 all while increasing wages for its 650 employees. El Paso Water wraps up a week of community meetings about a proposed rate hike tonight.

It’s day one of the child endangerment trial of a former school district police officer on duty during a mass shooting in Uvalde.

The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to have county staff develop a guideline for data center development in the region.

The El Paso County medical examiner has ruled the cause of death of a Cuban man at the immigration detention camp a homicide. 55 year-old Gerlado Lunas Campos is among three people who’ve died in custody in the last two months at the tent facility.