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 ...

Eight months after the Deming City Council terminated his contract, the city’s former community services director, Alexi Jackson, filed two complaints against the city in Sixth Judicial District Court ...

The original version of this story referred to time stamps in error, and has been updated to correct the date and time of the stop as well as add information from the police officers’ incident reports ...

Tuesday saw the second day of an unusual delinquent property tax auction at the historic Luna County Courthouse, which houses the county’s administrative offices. Nearly 400 half-acre properties were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Columbus Chamber of Commerce held the first of two planned candidate forums for local candidates in the Nov. 7 elections last Thursday. The venue was the Tumbleweed dinner theater, which at about ...

DEMING – New Mexico rancher Scott Chandler recently learned of a settlement in his defamation lawsuit filed against Jay McCleskey and the Political Action Committee (PAC), Advance New Mexico Now, has ...

School’s out, but Bernie Chavez will be attending Deming High School for the next few weeks. The athletic/activities director has an extraordinary number of coaching vacancies to fill, and it all has ...

Two Deming City Council members made a final appearance as members of the council at Tuesday’s regular meeting at City Hall. Irmaisela Rodriguez, the District 2 representative, gave a tearful goodbye ...

The Southwestern New Mexico State Fair has officially returned to Deming, and cowboys around the area are itching to get into the saddle. From Youth events and ranch rodeo, to a brand new event for ...