Clovis News

It's easy to spot California's newest ghost towns -- half-finished neighborhoods that testify to the state's devastated economy.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 11:01 a.m. Read more: Local , State , Education , Community , Clovis High School Band , All State Band , Clovis , Band CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO -- Congratulations are in order for the Clovis High School and CHS Freshman Academy Band programs.

Joke of the day: Black Friday escapes: Here's an alternative to shopping when it comes to the day after Thanksgiving.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago.

Students earn seats in honor band Clovis High School band members filled 39 of 89 chairs available in the South East New Mexico Music Educators Association's High School Honor Band after tryouts last Saturday.

Portions of Friant Road and Audubon Drive will be closed to vehicles from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other area roads and intersections, including Cedar, Shepherd, Maple, and Teague will be subject to closure between 6:30 a.m, and 11:30 a.m. The designated alternative route for travel during the race is Willow Avenue.

A wide-open bombing range was a big reason the Air Force spared Cannon Air Force Base from closing in 2005.

Clovis and Portales ghosts and ghouls this Halloween have a lot of places to choose from to scare up some family fun.

It's the spookiest time of the year. Yep, Halloween is right around the corner. But local Halloween happenings aren't concentrated solely on Oct.

Scientists have discovered a site containing the most extensive evidence seen so far in Mexico for the Clovis culture.

With October comes the guessing game of who's going to dress up as what for Halloween.

When Cannon Air Force Base reaches full capacity in about five months, communities outside Clovis and Portales may figure into the solution of finding affordable housing for personnel.

The Younger Dryas impact fizzle? In 2007, R. B. Firestone and colleagues published evidence of an extraterrestrial impact, roughly coincident with the onset of the cold climate event known as the Younger Dryas.

We will see the end of wild fish in the sea in our lifetime. We, like Clovis hunters, will only have memories of fishing the ocean.

More residents in Clovis are getting the blues -- as in blue recyclable containers.

The Clovis Unified School District will consider shedding its neutrality and backing Clovis parents who want to change boundary lines and move into the district from Fresno Unified.

Anritsu Company announces that its newly released BTS Master MT8221B high-performance handheld base station analyzer is compatible with SweepMastersa online test data collection system.

Alamogordo schools are on their way to meeting state and federal educational guidelines.

The High Plains agriculture scene could get in on the action in biofuel production, and its profits, if two researchers have their way.

The High Plains agriculture scene could get in on the action in biofuel production, and its profits, if two researchers have their way.