Las Cruces News

Dona Ana County commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to hold a special election to ask voters if beer and wine permits should be allowed in the county's incorporated areas.

Laurie Atteberry, a fourth-grade science teacher at White Sands Schools, shows off the weather data readout device used to track current weather conditions from sensors mounted on the roof of the school.

A five-year contract with a U.S. company that installs, operates and administers cameras capable of detecting vehicles that run or speed through red-light traffic lights will go to the Las Cruces City Council ...

There is one thing I just can't live without: Coffee. Two or three times a day, no exceptions.

Two Republican candidates - one seeking a Dona Ana County Commission seat and one seeking a state representative post - have withdrawn from the November general election.

Man sought in at least two violent incidents is believed to be in the Las Cruces area.

A natural gas leak near the corner of Idaho Avenue and Alamo Street has forced the temporary closure of one road and evacuation of two homes in the area.

Concerns about crime may explain why more than twice as many residents are packing heat this year.

Crimes at convenience stores in New Mexico have dropped after the state imposed laws in 2004 aimed at protecting workers in those stores.

More than 470 members of the New Mexico National Guard have been called up to help with Hurricane Gustav, which slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry Monday but missed a direct hit on ...

The poverty rate in Las Cruces is rising slightly, with a growing number of residents both here and statewide going without health insurance.

Thieves across the country over the last few years have targeted copper wire, catalytic converters and certain car wheels and brands of headlights.

Of all the things the Martin family lost in the fire that destroyed their home and three cars Saturday, there's one thing Robert Martin is determined to get - a name.

Voters in the swing county of Dona Ana are heavily divided by McCain's decision for vice president.

The City of Las Cruces and the international fraternal organization, Woodmen of the World, will hold a remembrance ceremony to mark the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.

An early-morning shooting Friday is thought to be accidental and a 30-year-old man is recovering after being airlifted to an El Paso hospital.

In some parts, a balmy September afternoon might be spent picking pumpkins or apples.

Carol Boyse, 57, left, and her husband, Lester Boyse, 58, far right, walk out of their home Thursday in Mesilla in handcuffs and escorted by Mesilla Marshals.

The purported weapon used in a November 2005 slaying in Las Cruces was in the possession of the brother of the victim's girlfriend, prosecutors said Thursday.

Las Cruces police are scheduled to conduct a sobriety checkpoint within city limits some time between Friday and Sunday.