KTEP Newscast

KTEP Newscast

Newscast from Monday through Friday from the KTEP Newsroom. Hosted by Aaron Montes with direction from Angela Kocherga, KTEP News Director.

Episodes

December 12, 2025 5 mins
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.
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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.
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November 25, 2025 4 mins
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.
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November 24, 2025 4 mins
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.
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November 20, 2025 2 mins
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.
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November 19, 2025 5 mins
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.
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November 18, 2025 3 mins
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
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November 17, 2025 5 mins
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.
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November 13, 2025 4 mins
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.
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November 12, 2025 4 mins
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.
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November 11, 2025 3 mins
A new city proposal would fund the repair and maintenance of streets with a new fee. Next week, the city administration will introduce the new proposal to the City Council for discussion, according to an agenda.
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November 10, 2025 4 mins
A judge has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for assisting in the death of an inmate at the El Paso County Jail Annex nearly two years ago. Cristian Carrillo pleaded guilty to murder on November 4th, according to the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office.
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November 6, 2025 4 mins
The Texas Gas Service will hold a series of community meetings to explain the utility’s proposed 27 percent rate increase for residential users. The city of El Paso has spent nearly $1 billion dollars on capital improvement projects throughout the city over seven years.
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November 5, 2025 4 mins
Over 10 percent of the 518,387 registered voters in El Paso cast their ballot in the November 4th election, according to the county elections department. El Pasoans voted mostly in favor of all 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution.
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November 4, 2025 3 mins
It’s election day, and there are 17 amendments to the Texas constitution covering a range of issues from reducing property taxes, to funding infrastructure to meet the state’s water needs and setting aside money for an Alzheimer prevention and research institute.
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November 3, 2025 5 mins
The Trump administration will partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP with a contingency fund.
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October 30, 2025 3 mins
An El Paso attorney is among nine people arrested following a year-long human trafficking investigation. The arrests come after joint operation by the Texas Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security Investigations.
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October 30, 2025 3 mins
Vulnerable families that depend on SNAP food assistance will be cut off Saturday. Because of the government shutdown November first is when funding runs out.
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October 28, 2025 3 mins
Early voting in the November elections runs through Friday. The Tornillo and Socorro Independent School Districts are each holding a voter approved tax rate election to access additional state funding.
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October 27, 2025 5 mins
Congressional Democrats are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to restore funding to a program expanding the deployment of solar energy for working families.
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