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    • November 2026 voting information

      Early voting starts Tuesday. Oct. 6, for the 2026 general election. New Mexico voters will choose a new governor and lieutenant governor this …

    • More than precision

      Three rifle volleys broke the quiet outside San Albino Church in Mesilla on Sept. 25 as members of the El Perro Diablo Honor Guard carried out a …

Las Cruces boxer Ariana Carrasco competes during a recent Red Owl Boxing bout in El Paso. Carrasco enters Friday’s fight with a 3-0 professional record.
Ariana Carrasco isn’t slowing down
Three wins into her professional career, Ariana Carrasco hasn’t had much time between them.  Twenty-one days after her latest victory, the 23-year-old Las Cruces boxer will step through the ropes again Oct. 2 at the El Paso County Coliseum,...
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...
    • National Night Out

      Attendees filled Main Street in downtown Las Cruces during National Night Out on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. The annual community-building event …

    • Prevention, symptoms and diagnosis

      September marks Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Memorial Medical Center is shining a light on the most common cancer diagnosed in men, after …

    • Progress Club hosts a round with a reason

      The General Federation of Women’s Club Progress Club of Las Cruces is hosting its 12th annual fundraising golf tournament on Saturday, Oct. …

    • 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 blessing of hospice transport

      “We are the only hospice we know of who is able to arrange our own transportation,” Mesilla Valley Hospice Chief Operating Officer Mario …

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...
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, Michael and Gabriel, have made it through school and whatever else the day demanded. Mixed in somewhere is law...
After more than six decades in Las Cruces, a longtime arts organization finally has a gallery to call its own.  The Las Cruces Arts Association will celebrate the grand opening of its new gallery Friday, Oct. 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 221 N....
Inside
OPINION
What do you do when you realize you don’t have your a-game for an important golf match? You know it’s your B game, and maybe your C game that will show up. We’ve all been there, feeling like you need to go back to square one and re-learn a golf...
On Sept. 30, Corrections professionals in Tennessee tried to kill Christa Pike. They almost succeeded. Now, health care professionals in Tennessee are trying to save her life. She is on a ventilator in critical condition in a specialized critical...
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...

 

‘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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