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Murray Hotel finds its future in its past

For years, part of the Murray Hotel's history was hiding in plain sight. As work began on a new restaurant and lounge inside the Silver City landmark, the past emerged on the walls: a mural displaying cattle brands from Grant County ranchers, a...

Cunningham visits Las Cruces home health innovator

Accompanied by three senior Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Greg Cunningham, the Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District seat, visited Electronic Caregiver in Las Cruces Oct. 15 to bolster his...

Curiosity in the wild

The animals weren't the only ones watching visitors at Alameda Park Zoo. Members of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society's Nature Journal Club spent Oct. 10 observing animals from around the world, including common marmosets, small monkeys...

The life you slowly stop living

Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to give up their independence. It happens quietly. You stop taking the longer walk because your knee bothers you. You skip a trail because your balance feels uncertain. You let someone else carry the...

Start the new year with peace of mind

As we enter the final months of the year, to-do lists usually fill up with holiday planning and activities. But I’d like to encourage you to add one more essential item to that list: your health. Many families don’t realize that by mid-year, they...

Superintendent Ignacio Ruiz, Las Cruces Public Schools

Investing in opportunity

What does it mean to invest in public education? At Las Cruces Public Schools, we believe the answer goes far beyond textbooks, classrooms and traditional instruction. It means creating opportunities for students to discover their potential,...

A little smoke, a family and an encore

Together with the Las Cruces Bulletin I am excited to introduce Restaurant Spotlight with Chef Armando, a new series discovering the people, stories and flavors behind our local restaurants and food trucks. As I drove through Las Cruces I was...

More than art on display

Donna Popky has had art as a lifelong companion, beginning with childhood drawing lessons in New York City and continuing through a career that included teaching art to children and helping nursing home residents discover the joy of creating...

St. Andrew’s Hospitality House provides free temporary lodging for patients and their families in Las Cruces.

A house that keeps filling

A fall brought a man to Las Cruces for medical care. What his wife expected to be treatment for an injury became something neither had anticipated. The man had been transferred after the hospital treating him could not perform the imaging...

Filling up the empty bowls

A large crowd joined the Potter's Guild of Las Cruces at its annual Empty Bowls event to raise funs in support of El Caldito Soup Kitchen. The Oct. 10 gathering at St. Paul's United Methodist Church offered a locally-crafted bowl filled with soup...

The closed loop cooling system being built for Building A on the Project Jupiter campus.

Project Jupiter gives a sneak peak

Boarding a bus for the short ride to the largely closed-off construction site just north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Santa Teresa, I wasn’t sure what awaited us at the drop-off point. We passed a line of cars — construction workers headed home...

Trinity at a recent Open House. Notice the obelisk where Ground Zero was and the Fat Man casing on the flatbed trailer.

Cliocide at Trinity, New Mexico

On July 16, 1945, people up early in Las Cruces witnessed a world-shattering event. At 5:29 a.m., they saw a bright flash in the northwest over the San Antonio Mountains. Those in the Tularosa Basin at the same time saw a bright cloud rise like...

The entrance to Santa Clara Bike Park welcomes riders to the new facility.

Built for the ride

Santa Clara’s newest park feature wasted little time drawing a crowd as children were trying to ride the new pump track before its grand opening had even begun. The Village officially opened the bike park June 26 after years of planning,...

Floodwater recovery moves forward as damage estimate reaches $17 million

The floodwaters have largely receded across Doña Ana County, but the cost of what they left behind is only beginning to come into focus. County officials put the preliminary damage estimate at about $17 million Tuesday as the Doña Ana County...

Uniting people to raise their voices in song

A choir begins with a single voice. One person breathes, opens a mouth and makes a sound. It’s an unusually vulnerable act, Diane Schutz believes, because singers have nowhere to hide. There is no clarinet or flute between them and the...

Archaeologists conduct fieldwork at an excavation site in southern New Mexico. Research across the region continues to reveal evidence of communities whose history can be difficult to recognize from the desert surface.

Ancient history comes into focus

Across southern New Mexico, pieces of pottery or chipped stone scattered across the desert can hint at something much larger hidden beneath the surface. “Buried there, there may be an adobe pueblo,” said William Walker, a professor of...

A central bumble bee visits larkspur in the Capitan Mountains in Lincoln National Forest.

Beyond ‘Save The Bees’

New Mexico’s desert may look unforgiving, but for bees, it holds a remarkable amount of life. Across the state, particularly in the Chihuahuan Desert, native bees occupy ecological niches, and researchers are still working to understand....

Emma Christiano and the kids at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Boys and Girls Club location.

Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces alumni spotlight: Emma Christiano

When most Las Cruces locals hear the name Emma Christiano, they associate it with the five-foot-three powerhouse that plays guard for NMSU women’s basketball. However, when you ask the Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces staff, they remember a...

From survival to growth with an unexpected leader

When Three Crosses Regional Hospital was being planned in Las Cruces, Denten Park wanted no part of it. More precisely, he didn’t want it built. Park was CEO of MountainView Regional Medical Center at the time, and he believed the city’s health...

The build-up to success

The Organ Mountain girls soccer team has spent much of this season scoring goals. Lots of them. There have been games with 18, 10, nine and seven. Through its first 14 matches, Organ Mountain had scored 86 times while allowing just two...

Lined up to vote on day one of the 2026 general election.

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 year, along with a new land commissioner. There are also races for other statewide offices as well as...

A red sports car sits outside the Gateway to Space building at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico.

Spaceport America expands its reach

Spaceport America may be best known for human spaceflight, but much of the work taking place at the southern New Mexico facility happens outside the public spotlight. Flight testing, rocket engine testing and other operations take place at...

Artist Marietta Patricia Leis works in her studio. Leis’ upcoming NMSU Art Museum retrospective, “Breathing Lessons,” brings together more than 20 years of her multidisciplinary work.

Finding space to breathe

For Marietta Patricia Leis, color can hold an entire place. The deep blue of Crater Lake, the endless green of northern Thailand and the darkness of an Icelandic winter have followed the New Mexico artist into a body of work spanning...

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 ritual they have performed hundreds of times. Weeks earlier, that precision earned the Las...

Local filmmaker's work seen in Silver City

Nadia and James are caught in the midst of a strict anti-immigration America that has brought devastation upon their little family as they seek their way through the struggle.   Will their love surpass the pain that’s ripping their family...

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 brought residents together with first responders and service organizations throughout downtown, with...

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