Penasco News

By KATHY PINTO Scattered across the New Mexico landscape of arid deserts, sandstone cliffs and snow-capped mountains are adobe churches and missions that appear to have sprouted from the earth.

Photo: Armando Vega puts out fresh bread at Panaderia Zaragoza at the Zia Center on Airport Road.

Wanda Mattiace used to gently tell spring breakers interested in visiting Jamaica that it could be a little rough.

In New Mexico, SkyWi received a temporary stay of execution, er, service interruption from Qwest, but the company's New Mexico subsidiary is being evicted from its Las Cruces offices for failure to pay its rent ...

The Public Regulation Commission said four New Mexico telecommunication companies have provided notice of their intent to discontinue service with SkyWi unless the Internet provider pays debts it owes them.

The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.

The right-hand lane on Pierce Street from Canal Street west to the hospital will be closed from about 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Forest law enforcement officers are investigating a suspicious fire that damaged a historic log cabin in the Tres Ritos area near Taos.

Carlsbad Municipal Schools was one of eight New Mexico school districts honored this year with the annual Ben Lujan Maintenance Achievement Awards in a ceremony in Albuquerque Dec.

New Mexico State University professor of biology Michele Nishiguchi observes a giant clam and other sea life in the Ribbon Reef area of Great Barrier Reef in Australian waters.