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.

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February 14, 2025 5 mins
KTEP’s Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes host this week’s news roundup.
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An investigation into the explosion that injured eight Sun Metro employees at an operations center in East El Paso will take weeks. El Paso Fire Department chief Jonathan Killings said details on what caused the blast will not be released until the investigation is complete.
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February 12, 2025 3 mins
An El Paso immigrant rights nonprofit has sued the Trump administration over access to legal representation for migrants while detained in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and an update on the explosion at the Sun Metro Transit Operations Center in East El Paso.
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February 11, 2025 4 mins
A vehicle exploded at the Sun Metro Transit Operations Center in East El Paso, according to a spokeswoman for the El Paso Fire Department.
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February 10, 2025 4 mins
A proposal to put a $105.4 million dollar bond on the May ballot for the County Coliseum gained no traction during the commissioner’s court meeting today.
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February 7, 2025 5 mins
KTEP News’ Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes discuss this week’s news including Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to the border.
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February 6, 2025 4 mins
Minimum wages at the city of El Paso will increase to $15.75 an hour this month with no healthcare cost increases. With approval from the City Council, over $77,000 will be returned to the District 1 office this week.
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February 5, 2025 3 mins
City officials say they’ll enforce an existing ordinance preventing El Pasoans from operating their homes like entertainment venues. University of Texas at El Paso is offering guidance to staff and faculty about what to do if ICE agents show up on campus.
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February 4, 2025 4 mins
Failure to get federal dollars to fund design concepts for the proposed Downtown deck plaza has local officials scrambling for funding. Texas has signed an agreement with the federal government authorizing national guard soldiers on state orders to make immigration arrests.
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February 3, 2025 5 mins
In his first trip to the border Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited El Paso where he visited Fort Bliss troops. He was accompanied by the Border Czar Tom Homan.
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January 31, 2025 5 mins
KTEP News’ Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes talk about some of the top headlines this week.
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January 30, 2025 3 mins
The Texas Space Commission awarded $800,000 dollars to the West Texas Aerospace Corridor Master Plan, a collaboration between El Paso County and the Midland Economic Development Corporation.
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January 29, 2025 3 mins
Two inmates have died while in custody at the El Paso County Downtown jail, according to reports filed with the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Joe Murvin died last Thursday and two days later Miguel Angel Montoya died.
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January 28, 2025 3 mins
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's funding freeze on grants, loans and other aid made overnight. The halt will last for one week before the judge decides on the legality of the Trump administration’s order.
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January 27, 2025 4 mins
El Paso Electric is seeking an increase in residential rates, according to their rate request filed with the Texas Public Utility Commission Monday. Over the weekend, federal immigration agents launched a series of targeted raids in multiple Texas cities.
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January 24, 2025 4 mins
The U.S. Department of Defense and Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 80 Guatemalan immigrants on Friday morning. According to U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales who represents Fort Bliss said the group was flown out from Biggs Army Airfield.
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January 23, 2025 5 mins
KTEP's Aaron Montes spoke with El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar about the Trump administration’s executive orders and what her advice is for families.
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January 23, 2025 5 mins
Faith, community and elected leaders in El Paso are speaking out after the Trump administration announced immigration authorities will now be allowed to detain people at churches and schools. That ends a long-standing policy of avoiding so called sensitive locations.
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January 22, 2025 3 mins
The city of El Paso will not use police to help carry out immigration raids. Mayor Renard Johnson and police chief Peter Pacillas made the announcement a day after the Trump administration lifted a federal policy preventing Immigration Customs and Enforcement from making arrests in “sensitive areas” like churches, schools and hospitals.
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January 21, 2025 4 mins
Immigration authorities can now enter schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship to make arrests under a new directive from the Trump administration. That is in contrast to a policy enforced during the Biden administration created protected areas where children gather and places of disaster and emergency relief.
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