Elephant Butte News

Over 1,000 residents of south-central New Mexico were without power Saturday morning after a transformer problem led to an outage.

As winter begins, Dona Ana County farmers look to the weather forecast a few hundred miles away.

We shear our sheep in the springtime so the sheep will have a nice warm coat in the winter and be cool in the summertime.

Farmers turned out Tuesday to elect members to the Elephant Butte Irrigation District governing board.

A group opposed to a federal wilderness bill for southwestern Dona Ana County has outlined alternatives to the proposal while asking New Mexico's senators to hold a field hearing locally about the matter.

A group of opponents to a federal wilderness bill for Dona Ana County gathered Tuesday to outline its alternative to the proposal and ask New Mexico's senators to hold a field hearing locally about the matter.

Pam Smith of Truth or Consequences, who lives near Elephant Butte Lake, wants to know if it's safe to eat fish she catches there and at other New Mexico lakes.

The New Mexico State Parks Division will award almost $1.6 million in federal funding for eight trail projects.

As horses grazed in a nearby grass pasture and bright New Mexico clouds sailed overhead, Elephant Butte Irrigation District Manager Gary Esslinger cranked open a metal chute, allowing water to gush into a 2-foot-diameter pipe alongside an irrigation canal.

Two of the nation's premier birding festivals will be held in November, one in Socorro, NM, and the other in Harlingen.

In less than one week of the signature collection process, more than 6,300 New Mexicans -- from each of the state's 33 counties -- have already signed petitions to allow Lt.

On TV, they're talking about how we should stay home if we're sick. I've seen people coughing and spitting up all over the place.

The state Court of Appeals has ruled a former New Mexico state parks ranger does not have to serve time in prison for killing a man in a dispute over a campsite fee in 2005.

Retired Carlsbad art teacher Dave Barnett will be featured in a one-man show from 4-7 p.m. Friday at the Artist Gallery.

Dona Ana County Sheriff's Investigators are currently at the scene of what appears to be confirmed skeletal remains of a human being.

While this year's pecan crop in Dona Ana County will be larger than last, experts say it's shaping up to be fairly average.

The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department have yet to identify skeletal remains found in Las Cruces.

A body found in a ditch Friday has tentatively been identified as a homeless man who might have died a year and a half ago.

Skeletal remains were found near a drainage canal near the "Corn Maze" area Friday afternoon.

An MQ-1 Predator comes in for a landing during a demonstration Thursday morning at Holloman Air Force Base.