Socorro County News

The Albuquerque Journal says police reports show 48-year-old Luciano Lesperance fell down about 50 feet in a shaft west of Lemitar on Sunday.

Grant County's official unemployment rate decreased from 7.2 percent in March to 5.9 percent last month, according to preliminary data released by the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.

"I guess I wasn't aware there was a fire brewing and we walked out and I was like wow.

The state has appointed a veteran municipal administrator to temporarily oversee the finances of the troubled border town of Sunland Park.

After months of collaboration and the continuous sharing of information resulting in preliminary flood maps, officials with Socorro County and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are now asking the public to participate in a 90-day comment period.

In "George Curry 1861-1947," an auto biography, Curry tells that when he arrived in 1879 in Lincoln County, it was the largest county in area in the United States.