Chaparral News

Gangs can be difficult to fight in rural areas, where eyes on the street are few and law enforcement resources are spread out.

City funding for the Spay and Neuter Awareness Program will end Jan. 15. City Manager Terrence Moore said the city wants to focus on consolidating funding for spay-and-neuter services at the Animal Services ...

In one room of the Chaparral Community Center, toddlers chanted along with a Spanish nursery rhyme.

Dona Ana County is teaming up with community organizations to cut down on animal overpopulation.

Border Patrol Agent C. G. Poynter and Yaneli Hernandez, of Bataan Elementary School, checked items at the register Saturday in Shop With a Cop at the Big Kmart.

Leaving the elves under the capable leadership of the Missus, Santa Claus will be hitting Dona Ana County to hand out dolls, balls, toy tractors, books and clothing, starting today.

Nature flows into the chapel at the desert-based Flor y Canto convent. On any day, the Assumption Sisters -- five women from Spain, Mexico, Germany and France -- can pray or meditate in their small chapel made ...

Officials from Washington, D.C., were in Las Cruces on Tuesday to remind senior citizens to check their Medicare prescription drug plans before the end of the year - a move that might result in savings.

An early-morning accident caused quite a scare for some Chaparral residents Wednesday.

As winter approaches, teachers in our schools will again become aware of children who attend school without a coat or jacket to keep them warm.

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Early voting may be risky, but it sure is convenient. I voted Monday morning at the county government building and there were no lines or problems at all.

In the race for Dona Ana County Clerk, the Sun-News endorses Lynn Ellins. Ellins has made great strides the past few years running the county's board of elections.

Juan Venegas, 25, of 911 Mescalero St. No. 6, was arrested and served with a Municipal Court warrant for alleged contempt of court.

The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's assistance in attempting to locate a 19-year-old man charged with aggravated battery.

The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department is seeking volunteers to assist victims of violent crimes.

Students at Chaparral Elementary School took part Friday in an Anti-Bullying assembly, one of several presented during the week in Deming schools.

Sheriff John Blansett says a preliminary injunction recently imposed on his department by a federal judge is "not only redundant, it's accusatory." Last Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Martha Vazquez of the ...

Almost 57 percent of Dona Ana County residents speak a language other than English at home, compared to 35.7 percent of New Mexico residents, according to the Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey.

Retiree and 21-year resident Betty McKnight picks her way from Wicker Road to Sagewood Drive to Lisa Drive to War Road almost every day of the week.