Mesilla News

A New Mexico restaurant is hoping to sink its teeth into a new world record. Peppers Cafe in Mesilla is hoping to enter the Guinness Book of World Records with the largest green chili cheeseburger.

The Guinness Book of World Records already has a largest hamburger designation on the books, but a Las Cruces cafe is going for a spicier title: world's largest green chile cheeseburger.

The first of two celebrations in recognition of El Patio Cantina's 75th anniversary will be this Friday and Saturday.

The director of the state Law Enforcement Academy is proposing a measure aimed at pressuring heads of law enforcement agencies around the state to report officer misconduct.

Dinner at your favorite restaurant, a haircut at your local barber or building supplies for your next home improvement project will cost a bit more come Wednesday.

People fill Andele's Restaurant for dinner Tuesday inside the Mexican food restaurant's new location in the Oate Plaza, a block north from its old Mesilla locale.

Journey Unauthorized will perform at 10 p.m. Friday at the Hadley Complex, after the Wells Fargo Electric Light Parade.

Jun. 30--LAS CRUCES -- Perhaps the most appropriate shovel that was turned at Monday's ceremonial groundbreaking for the Las Cruces Convention Center happened minutes after city, state and New Mexico State University officials turned their spades.

Perhaps for the first time ever, there will be a fireworks display in Mesilla on the Fourth of July.

For Las Cruces residents who find the "safe-and-sane" fireworks ordinances in place in the city too restrictive, a quick trip to Mesilla will get you a little more bang for your buck, but officials and residents here hope everyone will be respectful of the law - and their neighbors.

A flash flood warning for Las Cruces and New Mexico State University has been issued and remains in effect until 6 a.m. Wednesday for southwest and south central New Mexico - including Las Cruces - and far west Texas.

A Mesilla man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for a drunken-driving crash - the day before his birthday - that killed a Las Cruces motorcyclist last summer.

With the Fourth of July days away, the Las Cruces Fire Department would like to remind residents how to safely - and legally - use fireworks during the season.

A former Mesilla deputy marshal could face disciplinary action by the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy for a September DWI that was not reported, the academy director said Tuesday.

Once again, it looks like this year's Fourth of July could be a dry one, with a high danger for fire.

Fireworks sales in Las Cruces and Dona Ana County officially began Saturday, but many stands around the area were just getting up and running on Monday.

LAS CRUCES Revenue was the main topic of discussion Tuesday at the annual Legislative Roundtable Luncheon sponsored by the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce at the Days Inn Columbus Conference Center.

With precious days remaining before their wedding, San Miguel couple Joe Campa and Melissa Trujillo knew their impending bond needed one more pre-marital test: Would they stay afloat down three miles of shallow river in a craft made of scraps? "We did!" Trujillo cheered, as she and her team rested next to "Fly Me To the Moon," made of barrels sawed ...

Silver City residents participating in Saturday's Raft the Rio event in Las Cruces are Ardene Rickman, Michael Metcalf, Mary Yardley, Ron McFarland and Sherry Clement, in the back row, and Kat McFarland, Bob Greising, and Christine Stewart in the front row.

More than 6,800 violations have been recorded by the city's seven photo-enforcement cameras since March 30, according to the Las Cruces Police Department.