Santa Teresa News

Parts of Do a Ana County received more than 2 inches of rain within about an hour Friday evening and the forecast indicated more on the way, said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Rogash, at the Santa Teresa station.

HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE RAINFALL OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES.

Dark clouds and rain drops. It's not exactly the way some people wanted to start the Fourth of July weekend.

Just one out of every four Independence Days are rainy in southern New Mexico, but people seem to think it happens a lot more, said Dave Hefner, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Santa Teresa for the past 11 years.

A four-person plane crashed Wednesday morning in Santa Teresa, but no injuries and only minor damage were reported.

A cluster of thunderstorms has moved into the El Paso and Santa Teresa, according to the National Weather Service.

A boy with Down syndrome was found at the Santa Teresa port of entry Wednesday, prompting a regional search for his family or anyone else who may know him.

The boy with Down syndrome who mysteriously showed up at the Santa Teresa border crossing earlier this week turned out to be missing from a shelter in Juarez, according to the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department.

A spokeswoman for the state Children, Youth and Families Department said the agency is awaiting documents from Mexican authorities to see if a boy with Down syndrome found alone at the Santa Teresa port of entry is from Ciudad Juarez.

Child left at border crossing. Authorities think someone ditched a boy with Down syndrome at a New Mexico border crossing.

The National Weather Service, in Santa Teresa, has issued a flash flood watch through late tonight for southwest and south central New Mexico - including Las Cruces - and far west Texas.

Melvin a oeBuda Wackerle Jr. of Liberty is still in the saddle as he travels with a oeBest of America by Horsebacka in its Mexico to Canada Trailride on Horseback Adventure.

Some DoA a Ana County officials say they're concerned the county doesn't appear to be in line to receive much federal economic stimulus money for infrastructure.

Dona Ana County has made what to some is an eyebrow-raising hire in its Health and Human Services Department.

A promise to help develop legislative proposals to improve border safety was delivered Wednesday in Santa Teresa as Lt.

Union Pacific plans to bid on land for its new rail facility in Santa Teresa during the summer, the first major step toward construction of a project that would move some operations away from Downtown El Paso.

There were noticeable tones of excitement among the Las Crucens who talked Thursday about New Mexico's first commercial solar generating plant to be built near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry.

A site in extreme southern New Mexico has been picked for construction of what could be the largest solar energy plant in the nation.

New Mexico's first commercial solar generating plant -- capable of producing enough electricity to power 74,000 homes -- will be built in southern Dona Ana County, according to documents obtained by the Las Cruces Sun-News. The plant will sit on 450 acres near the Port of Santa Teresa, four miles west of Sunland Park and will employ nearly 220 ...

Lt. Governor Diane Denish made a "proactive" visit to Customs and Border Patrol headquarters in Santa Teresa Wednesday to solicit input and brief law enforcement and elected officials on last week's Southwest Border Task Force Meeting in Albuquerque.