Business startups located in New Mexico with plans to sell outside the state are invited to join BizSprint, a program to accelerate success with $2,000 and resources from New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center. 

Application deadline is June 27 for a spot in NMSU’s entrepreneurship and innovation hub with program funding generously given by New Mexico Gas Company, an Emera Company.

The Gila Conservation Coalition hosts the 15th annual Gila River Festival September 19-22, 2019 in Silver City, New Mexico and along the Gila River.

Join us to explore the future of the Gila River in relation to the changing climate, as well as our responsibility to act as responsible earth stewards, with keynote speaker climate activist Tim DeChristopher and many renowned presenters.

Lee K. Abbott’s impact on students was indelible. After a lifetime writing award-winning short stories and teaching creative writing at universities across the country, Abbott returned to Las Cruces, where he grew up. His life ended in Columbus, Ohio where he was undergoing medical treatment. Abbott lost his battle with leukemia on April 29. He was 71.

Abbott is remembered for the energy and inspiration he gave his students. New Mexico State University students were among the last to benefit from his teaching.

New Mexico Voices for Children Executive Director James Jimenez issued the following statement regarding Tuesday’s release of the report “New Mexico’s Boom that Cost Billions: How Federal Oil and Gas Policies Fail Taxpayers” by Taxpayers for Common Sense:

“While New Mexico is used to being at the bottom of the nation in many indicators, here’s one where we’re at the top: we’ve had the most natural gas wasted from oil and gas production on federal land.

The subject of Tuesday’s SWAT callout on east Hadley Avenue, wanted in Deming, N.M., and Las Cruces on felony warrants, was taken into custody about 12:30 p.m.

Patricio Fierro, 29, of Deming, N.M., was believed to be armed and barricaded in a home on the 900 block of east Hadley Avenue. About 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 25, the Las Cruces Police Department’s SWAT team was activated, surrounded the home and began the process of making contact with Fierro.

At least two other occupants left the home during the incident.

CHAPARRAL, N.M. (AP) — A 10-year old girl in southern New Mexico is recovering after authorities say she was grazed by a bullet while asleep.

KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, reports the girl was grazed by the bullet early Sunday morning in her family's Chaparral, New Mexico, home.

The young girl was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — Officials with the Gila National Forest say the first phase of a cleanup project at the Royal John Mine and Mill is nearly complete.

Past lead and zinc mining activities left an estimated 90,000 cubic yards (68,810 cubic meters) of tailings and waste rock material along the upper reaches of Cold Springs Creek. The contaminated material is being consolidated into one spot where it will be permanently capped.

Officials say this will limit the potential for the contaminants to reach the surrounding environment.

Clint, TEXAS (AP) — The U.S. government has removed most children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas near the border with Mexico following reports that more than 300 children were detained there and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

Only about 30 children remained at the station outside El Paso on Monday, Rep. Veronica Escobar said after her office was briefed on the situation by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official.