The New Mexico attorney general on Wednesday added new claims to his civil lawsuit against the Western New Mexico University Board of Regents and former WNMU President Joseph Shepard. The amended ...

A Mining District landmark since the last century, the Lime Quarry Road overpass over U.S. 180 just north of Hurley was reduced to rubble over the weekend as part of the ongoing expansion of the ...

A New Mexico district judge ruled Monday that the N.M. Public Education Department’s administrative rule ordering all public school districts to have 180 instructional days in a school year is invalid ...

Dora Simpson, community engagement manager for the Daily Press, hands out free copies of the newspaper Saturday during Chocolate Fantasia downtown. In addition to managing circulation duties, Simpson ...

Mia Riley, left, places a black-bottom muffin into a box for Xayliez Franco outside the former Diane’s Restaurant, 508 N. Bullard St., during Saturday’s Chocolate Fantasia, a chocolate-tasting ...

Silver Consolidated Schools will conduct a feasibility study as part of its plan to consolidate the populations of its elementary schools, Superintendent William Hawkins announced this week. The ...

A former teacher in the Cobre Consolidated School District who attempted to solicit sex from a teenager in an undercover operation was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation and will have to ...

Flames can be seen inside a house in Hurley that burned at midday Monday. No one was injured in a structure fire in Hurley on Monday morning. According to a press release from Hurley Police Chief ...

Silver City Police Chief Freddie Portillo speaks during Monday’s Town Council work session against a proposed ordinance that would create a citizen advisory board for the Police Department. During a ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, center, talks about his office’s ongoing investigation of Western New Mexico University spending during a press conference Monday afternoon in Santa Fe. Torrez ...

During Grant County Day last Wednesday, Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments Executive Director Priscilla Lucero and others involved in local government here met with officials in Santa Fe to ...

Robert “Scott” Abalos, Sebastian Castello, Mia Cordova, Jacqueline Murphy, and Heather Castello act out a scene in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” during the show’s first full dress rehearsal Tuesday. The ...