Alamo News

Col. Allen Weh talked to Alamogordo veterans at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7686 Saturday, outlining his past and political views for listeners.

Children's author/songwriter Rooster Morris reads a passage from his book "Axle Galench: The Gate of No Return" to Oregon Elementary School students during an assembly Thursday afternoon in the school's cafeteria.

Local legislators are coming together to host a new committee on military and veterans affairs.

Sparkling white sands and clear blue skies form a dramatic backdrop for colorful hot air balloons at last year's White Sands Hot Air Balloon Invitational.

Calf ropers are a peculiar group of talented cowboys. I would characterize them as more serious about their work than most.

Game and Fish district officers Darrell Cole, left, and Mark Holquin clean and secure the equipment they used in a training exercise Thursday at the Alamo West Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department.

The four candidates vying for the city manager position got a chance to visit with city commissioners, city department heads and citizens of Alamogordo at Desert Lakes Golf Course's 19th Hole restaurant Monday.

David I. Rupp, longtime Alamogordo attorney, plans to seek the Republican nomination to serve as Division IV judge in the 12th Judicial District in Otero County.

About $4.2 million in federal money is slated for construction and repair of diversion channels and prevention of flood damage in Alamogordo in neighboring Otero County.

About $4.2 million in federal money is slated for construction and repair of diversion channels and prevention of flood damage in Alamogordo in neighboring Otero County.

Alamogordo locals who participated in the making of the feature film Year One got a taste of Hollywood treatment, as they got in for free at the movie's premier June 19.

The Pentagon has identified a U.S. soldier killed in a grenade attack near Kirkuk, Iraq, as being from Fort Hood.

After two rockets launched during two weeks from White Sands Proving Grounds crashed near populated areas, the Army quickly "imposed a stand-down in the testing," said Wayne Mattson in the New Mexico Space Journal .

Gov. Bill Richardson is visiting 14 New Mexico communities this week - including today's stop in Alamogordo - during his statewide listening tour.