Eddy County News

The Eddy County Commission agreed that the $1 million it set aside to fix three roads in Loving would better serve the community by fixing one road without cutting corners, rather than doing quick fixes on all three roads Loving officials wanted repaired.

The tornado that devastated an Oklahoma City suburb Monday touched down more than 500 miles away from Carlsbad, but the effects of the natural disaster have everyone in Tornado Alley on edge.

The NMSU Community Education Driver's Education class will begin June 3. Registration: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday through May 30 in room 1B.

To look at Lakewood today it is hard to imagine this small cluster of rundown buildings being a part of one of the most populated towns in the region.

Jack Volpato says the worst kind of politics led to his father being convicted of murder in one of New Mexico's most famous cases.

Unaware of the Eddy County's proximity to military installations, new residents to Eddy County are often surprised to see occasionally military aircraft propelling across the sky on training missions, followed with by a sonic boom.

The joke was on him. A Carlsbad man who reportedly attempted to avoid arrest by giving police a fake name was arrested Wednesday.

Jack Volpato says the worst kind of politics led to his father being convicted of murder in one of New Mexico's most famous cases.

Multi-Corp International Inc. has engaged MCI Operating of NM LLC to license and operate a summer drilling program for the first of two drill targets on leases owned in the Cave Pool Property that covers 2800 acres located within the Eddy County, N.M. It is located within the prolific Artesia Vacuum Trend - more specifically within the Grayburg ... (more)

Property code violators in Eddy County can expect to be cited into court sooner than later when failing to comply with the code enforcement's directive to clean up their properties.

In an effort to provide some clarification regarding Multi-Corp's recent business transactions, the board offers the bullet points below in an effort to simplify the many important corporate developments reached and surpassed.

Otis Mutual Domestic leaders, formerly Otis Water Co-op, say due to the continuing drought, the water levels in the well fields have dropped about 23 feet since March of last year and measures have been taken to slow the demand for domestic water.

An emergency worker surveys the scene of a crash Friday morning. Two big rigs collided on U.S. 620-180 late Thursday night, resulting in a propane spill that required traffic on the highway to be rerouted for much of the day.

Deep ruts in the road on North Canal Street from the intersection of Canal and Orchard Lane to West Pierce Street have become a source of irritation to drivers who daily traverse that section of the road.

New Mexico's highest court will consider a dispute on Monday over whether the state's top water manager can decide proposed water rights transfers to increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River.

What do you do if you have out-dated prescription medicines in your medicine cabinet? If you answered, "flush them down the toilet," it's not the answer the city of Carlsbad's environmental services department wants to hear.

The New Mexico Department of health says there has been an outbreak of laboratory-confirmed salmonella infections in seven people in the state.

An argument between brothers on Tuesday turned out to be more than just sibling rivalry when one of them reportedly pulled out a gun.

Representatives of Eddy County agencies working against child abuse rallied Tuesday on the courthouse lawn.