Las Cruces News

Las Cruces school district officials now say Las Montanas Charter High School has a "balanced" and "reasonable" budget for the 2013-2014 year after financial and academic problems threatened to shut down the alternative school last month.

Dry conditions and wind contributed to the growth of the Silver Fire yesterday. The fire grew 5,500 acres to reach 30,300 acres.

A man and his young grandson have filed a lawsuit in Las Cruces federal court, alleging Dona Ana County Sheriff's deputies violated their civil rights by unjustly ordering them out of a vehicle at gunpoint and searching them.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and Fox network's "Hotel Hell" crew are already hard at work, trying to bring Meson de Mesilla out of a rut and to turn it into a successful hotel.

Remember the old "Emergency" television program during the 1970s, where two Los Angeles firemen responded to an assortment of situations where paramedics or assistance to the public was needed.

A Las Cruces man suspected of downloading more than 200 images of child pornography within the past nine months has been arrested.

To provide these kids with the nourishment they need, the Roadrunner Food Bank's Mobile Food Pantry is providing eight new distribution sites during the summer.

A New Mexico man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a developmentally disabled 8-year-old girl in Joplin.

A woman is handcuffed in the Creative Media Institute production "Ensuring Child Safety: In Abuse and Neglect Referrals."

Members of the Chiricahua Apache tribe dropped by the Legislative Constituent Service Center at 138 N. Main St. in Las Cruces recently to extend thanks to State Representative Phillip Archuleta .

City Council's approval Monday of a deed transfer of a house the city owned at 405 College Avenue seemed simple enough.

Almost two years after deciding to add city impact fees for major road and drainage improvements, the Las Cruces City Council instead voted Monday to take a step back.

A jury convicted late last week a Las Cruces woman of dog fighting and numerous other animal-related offenses at 3rd Judicial District Court.

A Las Cruces woman awaiting sentencing for horse whipping her then-teenage son was charged last week with stabbing and threatening to kill her live-in girlfriend, according to court documents.

Review a copy of a brochure Galichia Hospital Group, LLC gave to city officials.

Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office investigators say a man wanted on charges that he beat his girlfriend in the face while she held their 11-month-old son surrendered to authorities on Sunday.

He's filming at the Meson de Mesilla" in Las Cruces this weektrying to fix the place up.

The pine trees and brush around Kingston are so thick you can only walk through on trails in most places.

Favorable weather conditions yesterday made it possible for firefighters to make headway in the fight against the Silver Fire.

Carlos Nevarez, Jr. asks the Silver City community to look out for Neveah, his son s 7-year-old daughter, during a memorial service for his son, Carlos Nevarez III, at Bright Funeral Chapel in Silver City.