White Sands News

To view a description of how to tell counterfeit bills, click here. LAS CRUCES Counterfeiting is on the increase across New Mexico.

Alamogordo locals who participated in the making of the feature film Year One got a taste of Hollywood treatment, as they got in for free at the movie's premier June 19.

White Sands Missile Range Commanding General Brig. Gen. David Mann, left, administers the oath of office to Robert Carter, WSMR executive director, during a formal appointment ceremony Wednesday at the Missile Range.

Artifacts have been found near White Sands Missile Range of the Jornada Mogollon, who lived mostly in the Tularosa Basin more than 650 years ago.

I cannot believe the city is considering allowing chickens. There is nothing nastier than chickens.

In a June 4 obituary about Charles Donald Albury, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the training location for the 509th Composite Group.

Jennifer Inge looks at the Heart Gallery display Friday afternoon at the White Sands Mall.

LAS CRUCES A Las Cruces engineer with almost 20 years at White Sands Missile Range is part of a potential class-action complaint of gender discrimination against her employer.

In a June 4 obituary about Charles Donald Albury, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the training location for the 509th Composite Group.

Macario Lueras, 51, of 9 White Sands, La Luz, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for first offense DWI and seven days in jail for driving on a revoked license.

I have never gotten a dull answer. When I called this week, he said something about New Mexico.

Plan a field trip to see restored Rio Grande wetlands or the dry Lake Lucero birthplace of the White Sands.

Dirty and sooty, space shuttle Atlantis looked like a car in bad need of a wash after it landed Monday at Biggs Army Airfield.

White Sands National Monument's superintendent knows what he wants from the park's inaugural summer institute that all five classes fill up and are so successful the monument will be able to offer more next year.

After 18 years, and plenty of wishing and hoping from city of Las Cruces administrators and motorists, there is now access to east Lohman Avenue and U.S. Highway 70 through Sonoma Ranch Boulevard.

After two rockets launched during two weeks from White Sands Proving Grounds crashed near populated areas, the Army quickly "imposed a stand-down in the testing," said Wayne Mattson in the New Mexico Space Journal .

White Sands police officers Cpl. Paul Mace and Gerold Krebsbach were recognized in a ceremony May 13 for their heroic actions when they responded to a vehicle accident at the Las Cruces gate on Jan.

Friday's rain helped quench the dry weather in the Tularosa Basin, but it's still a far cry from wiping out drought-like conditions.

A bright hovering light had several Las Crucens and El Pasoans staring at the sky Sunday night, wondering what the Unidentified Flying Object was.

Alamogordo City Commission candidates, from left, Donald Henderson, Bob Evans and Robert Rentschler await the start of a candidate forum, hosted by the Republican Women of Otero County on Tuesday evening at the First National Bank Atrium.