Noe Ortega
Multimedia Journalist
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Noe Ortega is a Multimedia Journalist for CBS7 News in West Texas, joining the team in June 2022.
Ortega was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Right after graduating from California State University, Northridge, he decided to take his first reporter job and make the trip to West Texas.
Noe grew up in a household with his mom, dad, and two sisters in East Los Angeles.
He is a big sports fan. His favorite teams are the Dodgers, Lakers, Raiders, and Pumas de la UNAM.
Noe got into Journalism in college. He wanted to be an English major but took a journalism class instead and loved it.
His main goal is to become a sports reporter for a major sports team.
Education
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|By Noe Ortega
Each program could request up to $5,000, to pay for curriculums, materials or tutors to offer more resources.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2022 at 9:01 AM CST
|By Noe Ortega
The preparation to get these trees, begins in June, when Oregon Trail Trees owner, Joe Smith, spends a couple of weeks picking out which ones he wants.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 9:45 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
Odessa residents woke up to a surprise visit from the Ector County Sheriff’s office, but not for any illegal activities, instead they showed up to give them meals.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 10:42 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
The West Texas boxer will be fighting in Manny Pacquiao’s undercard against a Korean boxer.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 9:07 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
Never 2 Young was chosen by the West Texas Blues Society to represent West Texas in the youth showcase.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:10 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
Midland Police Officer in the crime prevention unit, Chane Blandford says the three most common forms of scams are through email, phone call, or through a social media post.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 7:21 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
Supporters for both Midland Christian and Trinity school, came out to the meeting to share their disappointment, and to call for an independent investigation toward the Midland Police Department.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 8:03 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
Representative Craddick says that updating this termInology will ultimately help in the efforts to decrease the stigma behind disabilities.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2022 at 11:55 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
The event was held at the Bush Tennis Center in Midland, that held activities for adults and kids to help out veterans.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 11:10 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
The ALA unit 19 in Midland serves veterans, military members and their families, and today ALA held its annual salute to veterans with a potluck buffet with a dance later tonight.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 7:47 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
After yesterday’s election, one of the propositions for Rankin ISD includes renovating their golf course for student athletics and for the general public.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 9:53 PM CST
|By Noe Ortega
The Permian Warrior partnership’s goal is to connect veterans and their families with resources like housing, higher education, employment, health and more.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in collaboration with other local organizations, had a celebration today with it’s theme was construction and its motto,”Building a family one day at a time”.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 8:13 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
he Permian Basin Mission Center is having its annual Thanksgiving box meal to give residents who may need help getting food for Thanksgiving.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 7:36 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Dr. Anderson has been working in the local governments in Texas and Tennessee for the past 20 years.Working with nonprofits, faith based sector with congregations and churches, and decided to start a new chapter in education.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 9:20 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Midland resident, Jose Rivera, says he always loves to help whenever he can.When he heard about this family who lost their home due to a house fire, he immediately asked how he can help.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 4:55 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
What started as a normal Tuesday for Gloria Reyes, ended in despair. When she got home from work, she saw smoke in her home.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
One of his novels, The Big Drift, won five awards, including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America, and the Peacemaker Award of Western Fictioneers.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The Midland Rainbow Room and "The Agency", Kerry Payne James are partnering to collect baby items after the room was affected by a storm back in May.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 7:20 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega , Joshua Skinner and CBS7 Staff
ECUD director, Troy Walker says he will ask ECUD president Tommy Ervin to step down from his position.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
This seminar had attorney’s, accountants, and certified financial planners give presentations to each other, and to go over ethics and professional responsibilities.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 8:56 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Fix West Texas purchased 2.6 acres of land and are going to use that land to build a new clinic.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 9:45 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Sixteen years ago, Marfa residents wanted to retrieve Blackwell School to turn it into a museum, but they never thought it would turn into a national historic site.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 9:37 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Fifty percent of the graduates were women.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 9:36 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Employees got the chance to dunk their boss for charity
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 6:19 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The Midland Arts Associations Fall Juried Exhibition begins tomorrow. Where West Texas artists can showcase their artwork in Midland College.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 4:33 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The group of Odessans gather every week to take their kids to flag football games, but now, they’re showing their support toward Florida, by starting a fundraiser.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Griffith says he wants to be an inspiration to those who have disabilities and feel like they can’t do much in life, and he plans to turn the new XP league in Midland into a brand and expand to all of West Texas.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Midland ISD announced this week they’ve started for the search for a new superintendent, and they’re asking for help from the community.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Monahans residents are outraged after they found out about the removal of items from their loved ones tombstones.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 6:20 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The new Esports league will focus on teaching youths about training like a pro gamer, but it’ll also give the chance for kids to compete and possibly get the chance to win a scholarship.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:19 PM CDT
|By Lauren Munt and Noe Ortega
Noticias Telemundo Texas is a new two-hour early morning weekday newscast that was launched by NBC Universal Local’s Telemundo Station Group on September 26th, the newscast is currently across 5 channels but beginning October 10th will expand to more stations across the state including T20 in the Permian Basin.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Cody Williams, owner of Cody’s Red Balloon has always dreamed of opening his own balloon shop.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 5:32 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Soon Odessa College athletes will have a new stadium to play in as they’re moving into phase two of the new James Segrest Stadium.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Fresh off of his 35th win, Pecos boxer Abel Mendoza decided to spend his time giving back to the community.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:54 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Mendoza started his boxing career back in 2019 and has a record of 34 wins and zero losses, with 25 of those wins coming in the form of knockout.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 6:32 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Sammie Bell Lane is going to be the second person in her family to reach 100.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 5:49 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The dogs that were affected by this disease were taken to other local shelters to be monitored meanwhile. The animal shelter had two days of cleaning to make sure this virus was gone.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:52 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Last month, Mi Cocinita was featured on small business summer by Mary Kate Hamilton, now a month later, this food truck was invited to the worlds largest food truck in Michigan.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 6:17 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The Permian Basin Apartment Association had its yearly golf tournament fundraiser to benefit the West Texas Food Bank.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 6:23 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
A Midland city truck crashed into the Twice Around thrift store on Monday morning.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church in Stanton, recently turned 140 years. San Angelo Bishop Michael Sis says there are older churches located in El Paso, but St. Joseph’s is the oldest Catholic church in the Permian Basin..
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:09 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week and West Texans shared their experiences
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 5:39 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Crane High School football team to honor Marco Lomeli through the semester
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Midland Chamber of Commerce member honored in Hispanic Stars Rising book
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 5:48 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
The Brown-Dorsey home is set to reopen after renovations
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 6:26 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Midland Bar and Grill opens after a year of being part time
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Storms damaged businesses, homes and trees in Odessa
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 5:58 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
Odessans battle with breast cancer fuels her to start a nonprofit
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 6:01 PM CDT
|By Noe Ortega
PAVE co-founder, Dorian Fuhrman says that electronic cigarettes can become addicting for young people because of the concentration of nicotine it contains.
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