Category Archives: Mesilla Valley News
Technical Rescue Team Helps in Two Organ Mountain Missions
On Sunday, for the second time in four days, the Las Cruces Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team was called to help find a lost or stranded hiker in the Organ Mountains. About 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9...
Feb 10, 2025 The Las Cruces Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team was called to help with two missions in four days in the Organ Mountains. LCFD's TRT was joined by Mesilla Valley Search and Rescue, Organ Mountain Technical Rescue, New Mexico State Police and the U.S. Border Patrol's Search and Rescue team.
Police Investigate Shooting on West Picacho Avenue
Las Cruces police are investigating a shooting that occurred Sunday evening and left a man in critical condition. Officers responded to reports of a shooting about 10:40 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, on ...
Feb 10, 2025
LCPD Commemorates Fallen Officer Jonah Hernandez
Feb. 11, 2025, marks a solemn and sorrowful anniversary for the Las Cruces Police Department, for the City, and especially for family and friends of fallen patrol officer Jonah Hernandez who was kille...
Feb 10, 2025 Jonah Hernandez, a Las Cruces Police Department officer for just two years, was killed in the line of duty Feb. 11, 2024.
Police Seek Technicians for Real-Time Crime Center
The Las Cruces Police Department is seeking technicians for its Real-Time Crime Center that's set to begin operations this spring. The RTCC will use real-time information and technology to help law en...
Feb 06, 2025 AI-generated image of men and women working in a Real-Time Crime Center
Police Investigate Allegations of Fentanyl-Laced Drink
Las Cruces police detectives are investigating allegations of a fentanyl-laced drink that allegedly caused a 20-year-old man to be hospitalized on Tuesday. About 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, police r...
Feb 06, 2025
LCPD Gains Five Experienced Officers
The Las Cruces Police Department gained five experienced officers after an abbreviated four-week academy that was completed Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. The five officers - three who previously retired fro...
Feb 06, 2025
Students Explore Career Opportunities at 'Plan My Future'
Third annual event open to middle and high school students Nearly 800 students from around Las Cruces and Doa Ana County are expected to tour a maze of career opportunities at Las Cruces Public...
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FREE Drive-Thru/Walk-Up Weddings At the Plaza De Las Cruces and Little Toad Creek
LAS CRUCES, Friday, February 14, 2025 - Free weddings will be offered by Morning Star United Methodist Church at the Plaza De Las Cruces (100 N. Main Street) for the fourth year in a row from 11 AM to...
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Las Cruces Mass-Shooting Unsolved After 35 Years
Feb. 10, 2025, marks the 35th anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Las Cruces - the 1990 mass-shooting of four children and three adults at a local bowling alley. Four of th...
Feb 05, 2025
Police Arrest Suspect in Fatal Stabbing
Las Cruces police have arrested the man believed to be responsible for Tuesday's fatal stabbing of Lawrence Patrick Rubio near the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Picacho Avenue. James Michael ...
Feb 05, 2025
