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I’m sure you’ve heard the old story of the conversation between a pig and a cow. The pig is complaining to the cow that nobody ever has a kind word for him.

Four airlines proposing to run flights out of the Cavern City Air Terminal said they could bring back flights to Dallas as city officials consider awarding a new air service contract this fall.

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced May 15 bipartisan legislation, also sponsored by fellow New Mexico Democrat U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, aimed at curbing the outbreak.

A trial will proceed against an Artesia man who was charged with several felonies after police said he sexually assaulted two teenage girls last summer after serving them alcohol.

Here is the latest law enforcement happenings around Artesia.

Planning for the business started in September of 2024 as both filled out paperwork to form a limited liability company along with government paperwork pertaining to taxes and food handling.

A measles outbreak that started in southeast New Mexico advanced north to another county in the region, as health officials last week reported the first case in Curry County along the state’s eastern border with Texas.

Rancher Bret Riley believes that measures taken to save a struggling grouse in the plains of eastern New Mexico can also protect the land he relies on at his approximately 22,000-acre spread 20 miles west of Tatum.

.Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO), a subsidiary of international construction company Bechtel, officially took over the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s operations Feb. 5, 2023, replacing Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) which held the contract for the previous 10 years.

Federal agencies manage some of southern New Mexico’s biggest economic drivers, and Republican lawmakers warned they could be facing funding cuts in response to the state administration’s apparent opposition to President Donald Trump.