A Carlsbad man was arrested and faced multiple charges after police said he followed a woman and her children into a public bathroom, blocking them from exiting before the mother drew a gun and chased ...

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The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

A pumpjack operates north of Carlsbad, NM. The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the state violated the state constituion and failied to protect residents from oil ...

The case was filed May 10, 2023 in Santa Fe District Court but could have impacts reaching hundreds of miles away in the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico and the natural gas wells ...

Carlsbad golf teams return to Roswell this week At 9 a.m. Tuesday at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, the Cavemen and Cavegirls participate in the Roswell Independent School District ...

Increased student population predicted for Carlsbad school district Two years before the current Carlsbad High School was built, the community had a population of 25,541, according to the 1960 ...

As of 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, district attorneys would need to file court documents on paper or by fax, he said. “That does not change how criminal cases are initiated because those have been filed on ...

CARLSBAD — More pickleball courts are included in three different preliminary plans presented this week for Carlsbad’s newest park, an 11.2-acre vacant site in the Robertson Ranch development ...

The legislation signed by the governor increase salaries for New Mexico’s supreme court justices to $232,000 a year with the chief justice receiving $2,000 more, according to a news release from ...