Until recently, Jessica Griffin of Hillsboro hiked the Ladrone Gulch Trail, a rugged upward climb in the Black Range, about a once a week — sometimes alone, sometimes with her family. “There’s a ...

This story has been updated to correct the starting pay for employees and the title of an employee in a photo caption. Like an oasis in the desert, the Chiricahua Apache Plaza in Akela, east of Deming ...

This story was updated at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday. Voters in Deming and Columbus opted for new leadership in Tuesday’s election, with Deming electing a woman as mayor for the first time along with two ...

Voter participation was better than average in Luna County in 2024, with a total of 8.075 ballots cast, according to the Luna County Clerk’s Office on Tuesday evening. That’s a 58 percent voter ...

The Wild West is back and bigger than ever at the second – but certainly not last – Free Haunting at Bootheel Halloween event. Jessica Holm, the owner and operator of the Bootheel Old West Town and ...

On a beautiful Thursday morning in May, a few dozen people gathered on the western side of Deming’s Mountain View Cemetery. Senior city staff were present, as well as administrators from Deming Public ...

Being born is a traumatic experience! I remember…no, I guess I don’t? It’s an amazing blessing that we can’t recall much about our first days of existence. That thought occurred to me as I stared over ...

DEMING – A Deming man is behind bars following his arrest in the shooting death of his stepson. Ezekiel Ricoy, 57, of the 4800 block of Sagebrush Road SE, has been charged with an open count of murder ...

The New Mexico Supreme Court censured former Third District Judge Mary Rosner in an opinion published online Monday morning, stating the judge admitted to violating the state’s code of judicial ethics ...

Warning to the reader: This story pertains to child sexual abuse. This story has been updated with comments from Sixth Judicial District Attorney Michael Renteria. Jeffery Dean Biddle, 41, pleaded ...

After a night of lights, sparkles and pageantry, four young women walked away with their crowns held high last Thursday night after the Southwestern New Mexico State Fair Royalty Pageant. Deleighna ...

AKELA, N.M. – The Fort Sill Apache Tribe broke ground on Tuesday on its new Chiricahua Plaza, a state-of-the-art full-service truck plaza, convenience store, and retail center. The ground-breaking ...