The Lea County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Cresencio Portillo, a Hispanic male, eighty-eight years old, 5′5″, 140 pounds, with white hair and brown eyes.
The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) District Two in cooperation with the New Mexico State Police will have a stretch of U.S. 82 closed from milepost 2 to milepost 8 due to a rockslide.
Hobbs police are still looking for one suspect involved in shootings that left two people injured on Monday night, Jan. 9 into the early morning of Tuesday, Jan. 10.
Nobody was injured in the shootings, which are being investigated by local and federal authorities, said Police Chief Harold Medina. He called the investigation a top priority.
The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health emergency order in response to a surge of pediatric cases and hospitalizations of respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as RSV.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest of suspects accused of robbing a USPS letter carrier in Albuquerque.
Over 22% of the patients seen at Covenant Health in Lubbock travel from Eastern New Mexico to receive care. Covenant tells us that it hopes to decrease that number by opening a Covenant Health Hospital in Hobbs, New Mexico.
The City of Las Vegas has fewer than 20 days left worth of clean drinking water. Pollution and debris left over from the Calf Canyon-Hermit’s Peak fires has contaminated its water supply.
Airman 1st Class Brendan Carr of the 27th Special Operations Maintenance Squadron was killed in a motorcycle accident in Portales, New Mexico on August 21, 2022, according to officials from Cannon AFB.
Lea, Eddy, Chavez and Roosevelt Counties in New Mexico have banned the retail sale and use of certain fireworks in their jurisdictions due to extreme drought and wildfire risks. Those counties include the towns of Hobbs, Roswell, Carlsbad and Portales.
A Sandoval County New Mexico Sheriff’s Deputy was arrested Wednesday after images of child sexual abuse were found on the deputy’s devices, according to the New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas.
Airman 1st Class Emerald Baskin-Young, a Structural Apprentice from the 27th Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron, was found dead in his off-base residence in Melrose, NM on May 12.