Health & Well Being | Las Cruces Bulletin

2024 Cancer Warrior board members Marci Dickerson, Roberta Martinez-Flores, Katy Petermeier, Laura Pierce, Kacee Benford-Bruhn and Julie Gustafson.

‘Mammo to Answers' to expedite cancer diagnoses

Jennifer Martinez and Julie Gustafson each had to wait more than three months from mammogram to biopsy to confirm they had breast cancer. more

Mike Cook
For the Bulletin | 10/21/24

Artist Abel Garcia, right, with UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) three-time heavyweight champion Randy Couture at an event during which Garcia painted for a Dallas Cowboys’ event bringing veterans and players together.

Abel Garcia joins ‘Bras for a Cause’

Talk about a big draw! Renowned artist, Las Cruces native and NMSU graduate Abel Garcia will return to his home town Oct. 17 to paint a special picture for Bras for a Cause, one of the signature … more

Mike Cook
For the Bulletin | 10/10/24

New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences reports that the state’s grape and wine industry has grown about 10 percent annually over two decades.

NMSU offers winemaking, marketing class

New Mexico State University’s Departments of Agriculture Economics and Agricultural Business and Extension Plant Sciences are offering a beginners’ course in winemaking suited for … more

Bulletin report | 7/22/24

CannaCopia

When you walk into the BOA Holistic Pot Lounge, 2140 Highway 180 E. in Silver City, it takes a few minutes for your eyes to adjust. The low light cavernous space could be the depths of a medieval … more

Elva K. Österreich | 6/6/24

Attendees and performers at Las Cruces’ first Grief Party gather for a photo at the late February 2024 event, which took place at Woody’s Gift Gallery in the Mesquite Historic District.

Las Cruces ‘grief party’ lightens the load of heavy emotions

This story includes mentions of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. more

Diana Alba Soular
Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative | 6/6/24

Las Cruces Public Libraries invites residents to join us from 2- 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8 for a presentation about hiking safety and preparedness at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave.

Take a hike

Hiking 101: Beginning Adventure Las Cruces Public Libraries invites residents to join to a presentation from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8 about hiking safety and preparedness at Thomas Branigan … more

Bulletin report | 5/30/24

Memorial Medical Center cares for Las Cruces

Memorial Medical Center CEO highlights the hospital's 2023 Community Benefit Report. more

John Harris | 3/15/24

Libraries present spring gardening workshop

The Las Cruces Public Libraries announced a weekend spring garden workshop open to the public from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. The workshop consists of crafting activities … more

Bulletin report | 3/4/24

Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, during a 2022 hearing. Duhigg was one of the sponsors of the Health Care Consolidation Oversight Act, which gives the New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance regulatory power over hospital mergers and acquisitions until July 2025.

Concerns about private equity owners drove hospital bill

SANTA FE — A proposed hospital network and health plan merger that would have created an $11 billion health care giant fell apart on the way to the altar last year. … more

Gabrielle Porter The Santa Fe New Mexican Gabrielle Porter The Santa Fe New Mexican | 3/4/24

Faith, signs and human nature move Joe Bullock’s pen

When banker Joe Bullock wrote a little book of faith-based fiction, including an angelic twist on his friend and New Mexico State University golf legend, Herb Wimberly, he had no idea the result, … more

By Elva K. Österreich | 3/1/24

A seventh-grader in Lauren Apodaca’s life sciences class dissects a plastic frog produced from a 3D printer, at Vista Middle School in Las Cruces, Feb. 13, 2024.

Classroom hops away from dissecting frogs

New Mexico has been a "dissection choice" state since 2005. The alternatives to dissecting real animals are getting more sophisticated. more

By Algernon D'Ammassa | 2/20/24

Celebrating the restoration of sight

“Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes And the deaf can have both of my ears If they don’t mind the size.” - John Prine I wasn’t … more

By Walt Rubel | 1/29/24

Baby Graciela was born at MountainView Regional Medical Center at 10:20 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1.

Happy New Year, baby

Memorial Medical Center and MountainView Regional Medical Center shared, with parental permission, images of the first babies born at their facilities on New Year’s Day. more

Bulletin report | 1/4/24

New Mexico testing nears 39,000; More advice on cleaning, handwashing

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The below information is current as of 4:15 p.m. Monday, April 20. As we know, the news regarding Coronavirus and responses is changing by the minute. We will work to update as … more

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