Voter participation was better than average in Luna County in 2024, with a total of 8.075 ballots cast, according to the Luna County Clerk’s Office on Tuesday evening. That’s a 58 percent ...

Luna County’s two contested races in the 2024 primary election were both close calls Tuesday. Democrats favored Linda S. Alvarez over Andrew Simon Hernandez III to take on incumbent Republican ...

Unidos Coffee Shop at 110 S. Gold Ave. took second place in the Light Up Downtown storefront decorating contest hosted by Deming MainStreet. Unidos was awarded a $250 cash prize. (Headlight Staff ...

Tensions rose at Rockhound State Park Wednesday morning, where a press event was held for the Protect Mimbres Peaks effort to turn the Florida Mountains and surrounding peaks in Luna County into a ...

Members of the community support the Deming-Luna-Mimbres Museum’s Green Tea Party on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, and were treated to a vintage fashion show and homemade treats — along with tea, of ...

The Deming Animal Guardians Sunshine Haven Intake Project is partnering with the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility to reduce recidivism through a dog training program, Peeps to Pups, which ...

As of Monday, a new editor had yet to be selected, but the paper will continue to publish on Wednesdays and Fridays. Publisher Seibel issued the following statement on Monday: ...

Johnson, 76, has been on the village’s governing board for a decade, and said he did not regard his reelection as a sure thing. With two new faces on the board, including the 27-year-old Padilla ...

A package of immigration bills introduced in Congress recently by Rep. Gabe Vasquez of Las Cruces will not address the growing crisis on our border, which is now impacting nearly all of our major ...

This story was updated at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday. Voters in Deming and Columbus opted for new leadership in Tuesday’s election, with Deming electing a woman as mayor for the first time along with ...

Deming High is playing football in levels. Level one was achieved on Friday with a 40-3 dismantling of the Belen High Eagles at DHS Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats will seek to complete level two ...

In 2021, two employees of the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department revealed that it was using a secure text messaging app that automatically deleted all of their messages, in clear ...