Nine-year-old Leighton Franks said she’ll “probably” keep volunteering for the rest of her life.

A $2.9 million housing project supported by the city of Artesia took another step during a city council meeting.

Tim Keithley published his first newspaper column in 1979.

Over four decades ago, Josefina Valencia saw a need for a facility to help children in her neighborhood of Juarez, Mexico. What began as a mission simply to feed and clothe those in her own area blossomed into what would become Bethel Orphanage.

A new pipeline will help dispose of byproduct fluid from a series of oil and gas wells extracting fossil fuels within Carlsbad’s city limits.