Cloudcroft News

The U.S. Highway 82 Otero County rockfall protection project just west of Cloudcroft between mile posts 8 and 5 will be finalized in September.

Supporters of Billy Anders meet for a quick prayer in the courtroom in 2005 as the retired deputy is tried for killing Earl Flippen during a shootout in Cloudcroft after Flippen killed his girlfriend and ...

For roughly 70 years, the American Legion Boys and Girls State programs have been in place to teach the youth of America how their government works and how to get involved in that process.

The Sacramento Ranger District on the Lincoln National Forest would like to invite the public to attend a field trip to the Jim Lewis project area Saturday.

For several years, NMSU-A has offered free tuition to high school students who want to take courses at NMSU-A which can be used as both high school and college credit .

Tony Romero of AUI Inc. elevates himself to reach a rock face at the tunnel on Highway 82 Wednesday afternoon.

The Lincoln National Forest's Sacramento ranger district will be burning wood and brush from thinning projects from now through November.

The Sacramento Ranger District plans to begin pile burning at the Forest Service Slash Pit on NM State Highway 244 near Cloudcroft and at the Forest Service Administrative Site in Mayhill.

Roadways washing out, vehicles floating away, fender benders and rocks falling were giving local police and emergency personnel something to do over the weekend.

Sarina Turnbull and Leah Housler have punched their tickets to next year's Miss New Mexico Scholarship Pageant, moving them one step closer to Miss America.

Cheyenne Hoyt, the reigning Miss Otero County, rehearses for the annual Miss Alamogordo/Miss Otero County Sertoma Scholarship Pageant Wednesday evening.

Cheyenne Hoyt, the reigning Miss Otero County, rehearses for the annual Miss Alamogordo/Miss Otero County Sertoma Scholarship Pageant Wednesday evening.

Ross S. Beach, 44, of Cloudcroft, was sentenced to 54 days in jail, given two years probation and assessed $1,067 in fines and court costs for battery on a household member.

The people who live in Alamogordo are feeling the pinch every day, between gas and food.

Alamogordo Church is a nondenominational Christian fellowship. Sunday Worship begins at 10:04 a.m. and Wednesday prayer at 7:04 p.m. This Sunday Pastor Ryan continues a series titled "Jesus and the Human ...

A Lincoln County deputy shot four times by a wanted felon is suing the dead offender's estate, his mother and the New Mexico Department of Public Safety.

A construction worker guides the movement of a concrete barrier hoisted by a tractor on U.S. Highway 82 Tuesday afternoon.

Although the fire danger in Eddy County have been downgraded from high to moderate, fire officials for the Bureau of Land Management's Carlsbad Field Office said the potential for wild land fires still exists.

A little fairy dust -- well, more than usual -- will besprinkled over Cloudcroft this weekend.

The official word was handed down Thursday that the Lincoln National Forest will reopen at 8 a.m., July 2, in time for the big Independence Day holiday weekend.