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    • Decoding your plan

      If you have ever opened an Explanation of Benefits after a medical visit and felt like you were trying to read a foreign language, you are not …

    • The family that creates together

      The laptop doesn’t come out until most of the day's work is already done. Tanishia Womack has put in her hours as a paralegal. Her sons, …

    • From harvest to haunted house

      October comes in on a cool breeze. Mornings feel crisp, evenings call for a jacket, and leaves crunch along the sidewalk. At the market, …

Gadsden’s Deion Torres high-fives fans following the Panthers’ 34-20 victory over Goddard on Sept. 25.
A needed breather
September ended with local football programs heading in different directions.   Las Cruces, Centennial and Organ Mountain enter bye-weeks after each lost over the weekend, while Mayfield, Gadsden and Mesilla Valley Christian School move...
Aggies notch shutout victory in conference opener
Opening up Conference USA play from the friendly confines of the NM State Soccer Complex, the Aggie’s played host to FIU - facing off for the first time since the 2024 season. Following a scoreless first half, the Crimson & White found the back...
Aven Benavente at Mayfield High with David Gallegos.
A respect earned through hard work
They were just the kids with the water. At least that was how Melanie Trevino remembers some athletes looking at the student athletic trainers when she was just starting out at Las Cruces High School. Then she learned and she watched and she...
    • Agriculture up close

      For hundreds of Doña Ana County students, a trip to the Southern New Mexico State Fair will come with more than a day away from the …

    • Art association finds a home

      After more than six decades in Las Cruces, a longtime arts organization finally has a gallery to call its own.  The Las Cruces Arts …

Super Section Stories
One of the images on the ceiling of the Mark and Stephanie Medoff Theatre in the ASNMSU Center for the Arts in Las Cruces is a little barefoot girl in pink. That’s Ruth Cantrell, the one-time head of the NMSU Theatre Department, founding director...
Natalie Pappas begins working on Empty Bowls months before anyone walks through the door.  By the end of March, the Las Cruces potter aims to have 50 bowls finished — each thrown, trimmed, decorated, glazed and fired from her home studio....
A backpack sprayer, some dye and a clipboard are still enough to turn a field in Anthony into a 13-acre maze.  La Union Maze does not use drones or GPS-guided tractors to map its paths. Longtime employee Martin Medrano walks the field, marks...
Inside
OPINION
There’s something special about fall in Southern New Mexico. As the evenings grow cooler and the season brings new opportunities to gather, it’s a time to slow down, reconnect with friends and neighbors, and appreciate the people and places that...
New Mexicans disagree about plenty of things politically. But one frustration that crosses party lines and reaches from Albuquerque and Santa Fe to Las Cruces, Farmington, Roswell and our rural communities is that Washington is not working as well...
Let’s revisit the city’s Strategic Plan. Recall, the city recently called for feedback on its drafted Strategic Plan, the plan they will use to prioritize funding for the next five to 10 years to ensure resident needs are being met. The plan...
The battle earlier this year to successfully wrangle a bill capping awards on malpractice lawsuits through a Senate Judiciary Committee led by a malpractice attorney highlighted the state legislature's many conflicts of interest. An advisory...

 

‘Pandemonium’ in Las Cruces New Mexico continues to inspire Icelandic director Anton Sigurdsson, who traveled to Las Cruces to film two productions in the past year: “A Better Place” in 2025, which is in post-production and is set to be released...
Acoustic music Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Main St. in downtown Las Cruces, continues with its third and final live musical performance of beautiful acoustic music in the three-concert “For the Love of the Black Box Acoustic Music Series” series...
The Gila comes to the Rio Grande Thursday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. at the Rio Grande Theater The Gila river meets the Rio Grande this month in downtown Las Cruces, in a one-night only film screening of “Journey Down the Gila” on.   Four years and...
MONEY MATTERS
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Maria Lupe Hernandez-Muniz

Still bringing people together

Piñatas, goodie bags, and cake. Getting the kids organized and making sure everything was where it was supposed to be. Maria Lupe Hernandez-Muñiz might use those simple terms to explain what became a career in event strategy, marketing and...

Kids Can

A business to help her mom

Big ideas can come from young entrepreneurs, and fifth grader Nadia Herring is a great example. A student at Desert Hills, Nadia started Nadia's Creations with one simple goal—to help her mom. What began as a thoughtful idea has grown into a fun...

 

Living Well
Influencer prescription: Why TikTok and AI can’t replace sports medicine expertise
If you spend any time scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, you have probably seen them: confident creators demonstrating the “one exercise” that fixed their knee pain or eliminated their back pain. When you are frustrated by an...
Navigating breast health
Many women wonder: When should I start breast cancer screening?  Early detection is the single most effective tool for survival. However, the screening schedule isn't the same for everyone. Age, family history, and personal risk factors...
Understanding peptides: the science of cellular communication in modern health
If you have spent any time scrolling through fitness forums, wellness blogs, or medical news lately, you have likely encountered a word taking the health world by storm: peptides. From claims about accelerated injury recovery and anti-aging to...
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