El Paso

FreightWaves recently chatted with Jon Barela, CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, about the port of El Paso's role in global trade and how the city can continue to capitalize on its location along the United States-Mexico border. The Borderplex Alliance is an El Paso-based economic development...

In the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet, Zach Strickland reports that Harrisburg, Pennsylvania tightens back up, and in the Shipper Update, Andrew Cox explains that small businesses are rebounding.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents working at the Ysleta port of entry in El Paso, Texas, seized 1,543 pounds of liquid methamphetamine Wednesday.  CBP officials told FreightWaves the liquid methamphetamine "would have an estimated street value of $30 million."  The liquid...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Milwaukee Tool builds $86 million factory in Torreón, Mexico; husband and wife truckers killed in a crash near El Paso; $1.6 million in cocaine found in carrot shipment;...

The often-inflammatory internet message board 8chan, accused by many of promoting hate and violence, went offline Monday after internet infrastructure vendor Cloudflare said it would no longer serve the message board after it was used by the accused killer in the El Paso mass shooting. Cloudflare...

U.S. President Donald Trump called for a bipartisan move to strengthen background checks for people trying to buy guns in the wake of weekend mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, and suggested the effort might also include immigration reform. The president’s comments came in a Monday morning...

Two mass shootings occurred hours apart this weekend, leaving at least 30 people dead and dozens more injured. The shootings come just a week after four people were killed in a mass shooting at a California food festival and have again sparked debate about gun control legislation and...