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•KVIA reporter and weekend anchor Daniel Marin said goodbye to viewers during his last newscast Sunday evening. Marin will be devoting himself full-time to his band The Royalty, which signed with Victory Records in November. •Newspaper Tree recently posted a...

LAS CRUCES - It's been a year since an accidental fire in a storage building effectively destroyed the Las Cruces Sun-News complex at Las Cruces Avenue and Alameda Street. Now, with asbestos abatement in the 56-year-old former grocery store building...

KFOX reporter Jacob Rascon, who was just beginning to make strides in covering the court beat, will be leaving the station on Jan. 27. Rascon has accepted a job as a multimedia journalist for KNBC in Los Angeles. He'll start...

Former KVIA reporter Celina Avila will return to the airwaves in the new year. Avila announced via her Facebook page earlier this week that on Jan. 3, she will anchor the morning and noon newscasts on KESQ, the ABC affiliate...

KTSM reporter and former weekend anchor Kai Porter will say goodbye to El Paso next month. His last day at the station is Jan. 8. Porter will be moving to Portland, Ore., where he will be reporting for a news...

•KFOX will start the new year by launching a new hour-long newscast beginning at 5 p.m. weekdays in an effort to get ahead of other local news broadcasts. “We asked our viewers and those already watching the other stations. The...

KFOX reporter Ric Dupont was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. According to Dupont's arrested affidavit, three Border Patrol agents saw Dupont driving a white Nissan passenger car with front end damage near the intersection of Vista...

Chat live with new KFOX-TV primetime anchor Erika Castillo at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on elpasotimes.com. Castillo, an El Paso native, was an anchor at KTSM-TV in the 1990s before leaving for Dallas in 1998. Watch Castillo on KFOX-TV starting Monday....

A friend of mine sent me a link to this "oops" clip featuring KVIA's Estela Casas and Rick Cabrera. Enjoy! To view the video, click here.

According to KTSM's Facebook page, former KFOX-er Noreen Jaramillo will return to the local airwaves on Dec. 12. She will be the station's new morning anchor, replacing current morning anchor Amber Downing, who will move to weekend anchor. The current...

Lauren Macias-Cervantes, a familiar name among local media circles, has been named the news director of KTSM/KDBC. She starts Dec. 5. Macias-Cervantes will replace Hollis Grizzard, who recently announced he's leaving the station at the end of the year. The...

KVIA reporter/anchor Celina Avila will say goodbye to viewers at 10 p.m. Wednesday, and the station's general manager Kevin Lovell has written a touching tribute column about Avila and her journalist work. After eight years at KVIA, Avila, a native...

•KTSM's new morning weatherman Mark Mathis has been quickly attracting attention here in El Paso after making a big impact among viewers in Sacramento. In April, Mathis left Sacramento's CW affilate KMAX after several on-air hijinx, including calling a cop...

KVIA reporter Maria Garcia will succeed Celina Avila as the station's 4 p.m. anchor, Garcia recently announced. Avila will be leaving the station later this month to join her husband, Brian Wickstrom, in California. Wickstrom is the athletic director at...

•KVIA's Stephanie Valle returned to the station today from maternity leave. She gave birth in early September to her second child, a beautiful baby boy named Alexander Scott. •KTSM/KDBC news director and station manager Hollis Grizzard announced late last month...

Radio leader Courtney Nelson recently announced his retirement from the El Paso airwaves, according to a report from All Access Music Group. The report states Nelson and his family will be moving to San Antonio in the next three months...

In a brief message KFOX news director Elizabeth O'Hara announced the station's new primetime anchor: " KFOX14 is proud to announce the hiring of Erika Castillo as the new primetime anchor. Erika has a long and proud history in the...

Two El Paso stations have been nominated in this year's Lone Star Emmy Awards, to be given out Nov. 5 during a gala in Houston hosted by the the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Lone Star chapter. KFOX...