Tatum News

The LEACO Rural Telephone Cooperative is being awarded a federal loan worth more than $57 million to bring new and improved telecommunication services to rural Lea County.

Republican Party activist Bob Cornelius on Monday announced he will run for state land commissioner in 2010.

Students in Tatum, N.M., will only have class four days a week when school starts this fall.

From CBS7 Weather: Update 10:45 pm A line of thunderstorms is moving south at 20-25 mph into the northern Basin.

The evening sky fills with colors as the sun slips toward the horizon. The world is quiet, and hushed, as dusk develops.

WESST received a $15,000 grant from The Daniels Fund, which it will use to expand a program that helps students learn good savings habits early.

Saturday, May 09, 2009 Rabid skunks, bats & foxes in NM Rabies is being reported in New Mexico with the confirmation that a skunk that bit a Tatum man was rabid, as was a bat found in the Las Cruces area.

The state says a skunk that bit a Tatum man was rabid and that a rabid bat in the Las Cruces area led to two cats being euthanized after they came into contact with it.

State police have arrested a 27-year-old Tatum man for the murder of another man on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico community.

Only a fraction of the nearly 2,500 nasal swabs sent to the state health department lab have been tested.

Ranching and school, a model for a dual life in rural New Mexico.