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Hosted at Southeast New Mexico College and part of the New Mexico Small Business Development Center (NMSBDC) Network, the Carlsbad SBDC helps entrepreneurs at every stage of business ownership through confidential counseling, resource referrals, and access to specialized expertise.

Artesia Daily Press announces 2025 Girls’ Athlete of the Year

Girls Athlete of the Year annouunced.

David Grousnick: Shrines and how they connect people

Maybe this is why there is so much chaos in our society today. Everyone’s using their own reference point.

Cal Thomas: A special golden anniversary

This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.
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Insurance companies are offering utilities less coverage at ever-increasing premiums. Meanwhile, wildfire costs are skyrocketing across the West, and electric cooperatives are facing billions in liability. That means most electric co-op providers face an existential risk from litigation after a wildfire.

Cal Thomas: A special golden anniversary

This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.

Sherry Robinson: Corruption from party in power

Old reporters like me have seen it before. Power, influence and ego metastasize as entitlement and rationalization: “I deserve this.” Their inflated sense of self-importance shields them from the notion they might get caught. They are floating above the rubes – that is, you and me.

Obituaries

Warren Louis (W.L.) Gray passed away quietly at his home in Kyle, TX on June 28, 2026 at the age of 91.

Dub married his high school sweetheart, Dewana Lou Berry, one week after her graduation in 1955.

Vega M. Nilsson

Vega M. Nilsson, a long-time resident of Artesia, New Mexico passed away at home on December 29, 2025, at the age of 87. Vega was born in Brooklyn, New York to Fredrik and Hilda Nilsson,...

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Mario Romero: Wildfire season is year-round. Let’s plan for it

Insurance companies are offering utilities less coverage at ever-increasing premiums. Meanwhile, wildfire costs are skyrocketing across the West, and electric cooperatives are facing billions in liability. That means most electric co-op providers face an existential risk from litigation after a wildfire.

Scenes from the Eddy County rivalry football game

Scenes from the Artesia vs. Carlsbad football game.

Artesia Daily Press announces 2025 Girls’ Athlete of the Year

Girls Athlete of the Year annouunced.

David Grousnick: Shrines and how they connect people

Maybe this is why there is so much chaos in our society today. Everyone’s using their own reference point.

Cal Thomas: A special golden anniversary

This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.

SENMC small business center supports entrepreneurs. It has possible answers if you want to start a small business

Hosted at Southeast New Mexico College and part of the New Mexico Small Business Development Center (NMSBDC) Network, the Carlsbad SBDC helps entrepreneurs at every stage of business ownership through confidential counseling, resource referrals, and access to specialized expertise.

Bulldogs rally late, fall short against Cavemen in Eddy County War

The Bulldogs comeback bid falls short.

Fishing fortunes vary at NM lakes, streams. Here is where the fish are biting this week as you prepare to stop at your favorite...

At Sumner Lake in eastern New Mexico, fishing for largemouth bass was fair to good using chartreuse crawdads.

New Bulldogs, same championship standard

New season, new Bulldogs.

Environmental group files appeal to restore lizard protections after feds cancel them

Despite its miniscule stature, the sagebrush lizard is at the center of a multi-year legal battle over tactics to protect the species from extinction.

Scenes from the Artesia boys’ soccer game against Hobbs

Artesia boys soccer team in action against Hobbs on Monday.