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 ...

Both Deming High School and Cesar Chavez Charter High School returned as winners from the 2023 New Mexico BEST Robotics Competition (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology). The schools competed ...

With only seven days until Christmas, everyone is looking at their holiday menus, including a certain local nonprofit. Silver Linings, which assists the local population — both housed and unhoused — ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A day after filing suit against Lordsburg mayor Glenda Greene, New Mexico’s State Ethics Commission announced it had reached a settlement with Greene and would drop its court action. The SEC had sent ...

DEMING – A Columbus man is facing a first-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of a pregnant woman. According to a press release issued by DPD Assistant Police Chief Clint Hogan, officers were ...

When Rosalva Zuniga spoke at a recent Deming Rotary Club meeting, she never thought her words would spread like wildfire. Transplanted from San Diego, Zuniga returned to her native Deming almost two ...

The Deming City Council will have its first contested elections in several cycles on Nov. 7, with two council members who were appointed to the body by Mayor Benny Jasso seeking four-year terms of ...

Jerry Montes retired as a shop teacher after 27 years from Deming Public Schools. Montez worked on many industrial art pieces alongside his students from Red Mountain Middle School. “I tried to get my ...

Voters in Deming and Columbus opted for new leadership through local elections on Nov. 7, with Deming electing a woman as mayor for the first time along with two new members of the city council.