Hatch News

A private firm is investigating last week's Taser-dart shooting of a Tucumcari teen to determine whether any policies were violated and whether excessive force was used.

Tucumcari's police chief has been placed on paid administrative leave after a Taser incident last week involving a teenage girl.

Claude Gobble's coaching career has looped back to where it started. First-year Las Cruces High School boys basketball coach William Benjamin named Gobble assistant coach on Tuesday.

Street burritos and tacos have joined the offerings out of wagons on the Downtown Mall.

DoA a Ana County officials say one of the first steps toward the first-ever community center in this historic village, located just south of Hatch, has been completed.

A 14-year-old Tucumcari girl is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after being shot in the head Thursday with a Taser dart by Police Chief Roger Hatcher.

More than $12.8 million in federal stimulus funds coming to New Mexico will help increase access to health care for New Mexicans.

Once again, it looks like this year's Fourth of July could be a dry one, with a high danger for fire.

The state Supreme Court has reprimanded a municipal judge in southern New Mexico for misconduct in office.

Could the current Las Cruces City Hall become a repository where multiple state and municipal governments keep their historical records? Historian Cal Traylor likes the idea.

LAS CRUCES Revenue was the main topic of discussion Tuesday at the annual Legislative Roundtable Luncheon sponsored by the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce at the Days Inn Columbus Conference Center.

A black bear was captured in Garfield, a Dona Ana County farming community north of Hatch, by state Department of Game and Fish officials Saturday morning before being released in the Gila National Forest.

LAS CRUCES New Mexico State University police on Thursday arrested three men suspected of auto burglary, according to a news release from the university.

A 4-year-old boy killed Tuesday apparently attempted to climb the side step of a truck while the driver, his uncle, drove off, Dona Ana Sheriff's deputies said Wednesday.

The Luna County Sheriff's Office this week begins adding additional patrols to New Mexico's 100 Days and Nights of Summer campaign.

VIPs, dignitaries, elected officials, a flyover of a new spaceliner 'mothership' and community events in Las Cruces, Hatch and Truth or Consequences make next Friday's groundbreaking for Spaceport America more than the usual affair of gold-painted shovels, hard hats and dirt.

Teresa Fowler says law enforcement has always had a special place in her heart. That changed two weeks ago, when Fowler, 50, a former Hatch Police Department dispatcher, opened the door to a plainclothes officer who, she said, "never once" identified himself.

DoA a Ana County residents not living in incorporated cities and towns will vote today about whether to allow beer and wine sales in restaurants in the unincorporated areas.

Roberto Santillan drives a tractor to a corn field along Dona Ana Road on Tuesday.

A man is in FBI custody after allegedly robbing the Bank of the West in Hatch, according to the Border Patrol.