Columbus News

Luna County Manager Kelly Kuenstler and county commission chairman Javier Diaz toured the Luna County Stockyard recently in Columbus, NM.

Close to a thousand free lunches are handed out throughout the summer months at various locations in Deming and one in Columbus, New Mexico.

After several months of working with the Obama administration, U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall Thursday announced that a cattle gate in Columbus is being reopened.

These instructors are really excited about the classes they are teaching and engage the students, who are equally excited about their chances to continue their education.

The dealer who supplied a border town smuggling ring that shipped nearly 200 guns to Mexican drug cartels was handed a five-year prison sentence Thursday along with a stern lecture.

Keith Schwarzer, President of the Deming Garden Club, came to Columbus Elementary School on Thursday with friends and a box full of gardening hand tools for gardener Gracie Jones to use with students in their formal courtyard garden.

Amparo Ramirez and her son, Richie, a student at Columbus Elementary School, accepted the $100 first-place prize in the Celebration of Life raffle in Columbus.

It's taking the village of Columbus and talented friends from Deming to produce the musical comedy "Halfway to Nowhere," written and directed by Tim McAndrews.

Patricia Garcia, 54, listed as having a Las Cruces address in the Luna County Sheriff's Office report, was arrested Friday, May 11 by authorities in Dona Ana County on a warrant issued May 7. She was arrested on charges of fraud over $20,000, computer access with intent to fraud and fraudulent use of a credit card over $20,000. All charges are ... (more)

COLUMBUS, New Mexico --Customs officers along one stretch of border are seeing a spike in the number of minors caught trying to smuggle drugs into the country.

Members of New Mexico's Legislative Finance Committee were in town for three days last week to get a grasp on local issues and to hear updates on education, border development, agriculture, security and other issues near and dear to Luna County and the bootheel region.

Columbus, south of Deming, owes its existence to the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad, which transported copper ore from Douglas, Ariz.

Residents of Columbus experienced an unexpected crisis with their water system. It left all 550 water connections in the village, including homes, businesses, the Columbus Elementary School and City of the Sun with a loss of purified water.

For almost a century, the Rio Grande has come to a stop at what was once the largest man-made reservoir in the world.