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the Biden administration announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free …
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9/23/23
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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument (OMDPNM) has generated more than $234 million in economic impact since the monument was designated May 21, 2014, including $35 million in 2022. And …
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By Mike Cook
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9/19/23
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On arriving at the barren courtyard of a mental asylum named Punto Zero on the west edge of Juárez, the first person to greet me was an older woman mental patient named Socorro. She was wearing a wool cap tied around her head and a thick fleece jacket. She stood motionless next to my car and seemed completely oblivious to the 109 degrees heat.
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By Morgan Smith
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9/7/23
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Sept.15-17 in Alamogordo, you have the opportunity to attend a manageable and, to my way of thinking, a beautiful balloon fest. It’s the White Sands Balloon Invitational and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the event.
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By Richard Coltharp
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9/7/23
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The Grant County Community Foundation is hosting a 2-day Capacity Building Conference for area nonprofits – including their staff members, boards of directors, and volunteers – on …
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9/6/23
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The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission (NMISC) will host public meetings Sept. 8-23 in Las Cruces, Hatch and Anthony, New Mexico, to provide more information and answer questions about its Lower …
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9/5/23
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M. John Fayhee, one-time publisher of the famed Mountain Gazette magazine, will read from and sign copies of his latest book, “A Long Tangent: Musings from an old man and his young dog hiking …
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9/1/23
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Competing against others twice her age in the 2023 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Youth World Championship Show in July and August, 10-year-old Kaycee Younker of Las Cruces placed in three …
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By Mike Cook
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8/31/23
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Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has been nominated for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
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8/29/23
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Memorial Medical Center has added a new technology to improve the detection of breast cancer and provide advanced diagnostic technology for women with possible abnormal or inconclusive mammogram …
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8/29/23
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There will be nearly 40 races on the Tuesday, Nov. 7, local election ballot in five Doña Ana County municipalities, three school districts and five conservation districts.
Candidates must …
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Nov. 7 ballot will include municipal, school board, soil and water conservation district races, municipal and school bond questions
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8/28/23
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A new private community of quadruplexes has just broken ground in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, “providing a unique opportunity for buyers to invest in the growing local real estate,” AMAR …
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8/28/23
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White Sands Missile Range has elected Ms. Jean Simpkins and Mr. William Rice to its Hall of Fame for 2023. After a review of nominations by a committee of personnel from White Sands and the White …
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By Jim Eckles, White Sands Missile Range
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8/28/23
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The Bureau of Land Management began a 30-day public comment period on proposed adjustments to the Foothill Dolomite Mine Project. In 2021, the BLM approved American Magnesium, LLC’s request to …
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8/18/23
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Las Cruces could be in for its driest monsoon season ever, but there is a “glimmer of hope” if current weather conditions deliver a “September surprise,” said National Weather …
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By Mike Cook
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8/15/23
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Empty Bowls celebrates its 31 st year in 2023 by offering sponsorships for the first time and with a silent auction for a one-of-a-kind quilt made by an award-winning Las Cruces artist and members of …
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By Mike Cook
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8/9/23
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In the desert east of Organ Mountain High School lies a road, once known as Mail-Scott Road, where Pat Garrett was killed on Feb. 29, 1908, by Wayne Brazel. In that lonely place under a creosote bush …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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8/9/23
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Al Berryman runs three days a week, including a Saturday morning run that often covers six miles or more; he does strength training at Planet Fitness on El Paseo Road two mornings a week; rides a …
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By Mike Cook
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7/25/23
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When students were moving out of the Western New Mexico University residence halls this spring, they may have observed something unfamiliar: donation boxes set up by the Choose to Reuse program.
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Provided by Wester New Mexico University
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7/21/23
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You’ve surely seen the big red “X” south of the border in Juarez, as you’re driving along Interstate 10 near downtown El Paso.
At 8 p.m. July 22, the red “X,” …
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7/18/23
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