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The Leadership Roswell Alumni Association has chosen three individuals and a couple to receive 2022 Community Leadership Awards. A banquet at the New Mexico Military Institute is planned for June 23 to recognize the honorees. This is the final of four articles about the award recipients. Generations of families in...

The Lincoln National Forest implemented a forest-wide closure order beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2022, prohibiting public access across the entire 1.1 million-acre forest due to active wildfires in the state and extreme fire danger. The closure order will remain in effect until July 30, 2022, unless it is rescinded earlier. The Lincoln National Forest covers southeastern parts of New Mexico from Carrizozo to Carlsbad.

ALAMOGORDO, NM – May 23, 2022 – The Lincoln National Forest will implement a forest-wide closure order at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2022, prohibiting public access across the entire 1.1 million-acre forest due to active wildfires in the state and extreme fire danger. The closure order will remain in effect until July 30, 2022, unless it is rescinded earlier. The Lincoln National Forest covers southeastern parts of New Mexico from Carrizozo to Carlsbad.

The Lincoln National Forest will implement a forest-wide closure order at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, prohibiting public access across the entire 1.1 million-acre forest due to active wildfires in the state and extreme fire danger. The closure order will remain in effect until July 30, 2022, unless it is rescinded earlier. The Lincoln National Forest covers southeastern parts of New Mexico from Carrizozo to Carlsbad.

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Lincoln National Forest will be closed starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, because of active wildfires in the state and extreme fire danger, according to the US Forest Service. The closure order will remain in effect until July 30, 2022, unless...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico State Police investigated a fatal rollover crash that happened Tuesday morning. The rollover happened around 7:32 a.m. on U.S. Highway 54 near milepost 151, south of Corona, NM. Officials said in an NMSP press release that a commercial vehicle driven by 54-year-old Rimantas Labeika of Madison Heights, MI was traveling […]

The infamous Roswell incident occurred in 1947 when the recovery of debris scattered on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico, prompted speculation an unidentified flying object (UFO) had crashed there. Now, 75 years later, conspiracy theories continue to circle Roswell and new ones are emerging as people claim the debris...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — When America’s first nuclear weapons were tested in south-central New Mexico they set off generations of strife as nearby communities struggled with cancers and other health problems […]

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — When America’s first nuclear weapons were tested in south-central New Mexico they set off generations of strife as nearby communities struggled with cancers and other health problems many feared were a direct impact of associated radiation. Those downwinders living in remote communities like Carrizozo...

A Florida man was killed in a fatal vehicle crash that happened on the afternoon of May 4 on U.S. Highway 54 between Tularosa and Carrizozo. D. Nigel Thompson, 25 of Crestview, Florida, was going northbound on U.S. Highway 54 in a Subaru passenger car when he tried to pass the vehicle in front of him.

CARRIZOZO, N.M. (KRQE) – The Carrizozo school board member accused of failing to report child abuse against her son is on the road to having her charges dropped. Court documents show Faithe Samora agreed to enter a pre-prosecution diversion program for two years. Her husband, Jesse Samora, is accused of choking, slamming, and pinning her 12-year-old […]