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The borderland is closer to getting another port of entry. The mayor of Sunland Park says there’s a major development in the effort to bring a new border crossing to the city.

The city of El Paso’s Ethics Review Commission will resume a hearing today over a public complaint about District 3 city representative Cassandra Hernandez’s alleged use of a city-issued gas card.

Texas has raised the amount a bottle of water costs inside its prisons for inmates by 50 percent in the last month. The price hike comes as 100,000 inmates struggle to endure the state’s deadly heatwave in facilities that lack air conditioning.

The El Paso region is still observing an extreme heat warning. Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are advising residents to avoid doing strenuous physical activity for long periods of time outside.

The Biden Administration is closing a care facility inside Fort Bliss for unaccompanied migrant children. According to CBS News, up to 800 migrant children processed along the border will be sent to a repurposed boarding school in North Carolina.

El Paso County officials are proposing a gun buyback program with the hopes of taking guns off local streets and out of the hands of teens. The county made their proposal to county commissioners who voted in support of the effort during today’s meeting.

Federal judge David Guaderrama has approved a request to reschedule sentencing in the Walmart mass shooting case. The court hearing will now occur on July 5 at 9 a.m. at the federal courthouse.

The plan to expand the Bridge of the Americas is the topic of a roundtable discussion tomorrow morning. Speakers include members of the Washington-Delta neighborhood Association, the El Paso Hockey, Association, El Paso Sports Commission.

An excessive heat warning is in effect today. And… El Pasoans can expect to see high temperatures at or above 100 for the next couple of days.

El Paso County is now backing a request to the federal government for $362 million to fund a proposed Interstate 10 expansion project at Downtown.