Mora County News

If you call the Mora County Sheriff's Office, don't expect to get an answer. Target 7 has learned the only remaining dispatcher quit.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman is slated to tour the damage from the massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico's Gila National Forest.

The deputy who recorded a fight between the sheriff and another deputy in Mora County said he was fired.

In spite of an aggressive rabies vaccination campaign in southern New Mexico, reports of new cases continue to filter in from across the state, most recently in Curry and Mora counties, raising the number of confirmed cases this year to 32.

The number of oil and gas wells is steadily increasing in New Mexico, but there are still fewer than 100 state and federal inspectors to watch over them.

LAS VEGAS, N.M. - Fourth Judicial District Attorney Richard Flores cited several conflicts of interest in his office prosecuting the case against Mora County Sheriff Thomas Garza, who last month was caught on video fighting with his deputies.

The sheriff of Mora County is one step closer to being criminally charged for his role in an altercation with two deputies after the state closed the investigation and forwarded its findings to the district attorney.