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Upcoming ABQ BioPark exhibit will let guests into bird habitat
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The ABQ BioPark will let guests get a closer, more immersive look at their upcoming Australian lorikeet habitat. Visitors will be allowed into the birds’ home, the same way they are in the butterfly house. They will even be given a cup of nectar to encourage the birds to interact with visitors. […]
July’s theme for Third Thursday: ‘Making American Artists’
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Third Thursday at the Albuqueruqe Museum is taking place July 18. This month’s theme is “Making American Artists.” Between 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., attendees can view current exhibits at the museum. Also between 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., there will be an art activity of fabric fashion. People will combine drawing and […]
Jon Jones fights charges stemming from alleged hostility during a drug test at his home
UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has pleaded not guilty to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his home in which he was accused of being hostile. He appeared with his
Downwinders continue to seek justice 79 years after the Trinity Test
For most of his life, Paul Pino believed his community had dodged the bullet when it came to nuclear fallout. It wasn’t until he’d retired from teaching high school history that he learned that his home, Carrizozo, had in fact experienced radiation fallout on a July morning in 1945.
Sunland Park Police to conduct DWI checkpoint Friday
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Sunland Park Police Department announced it will be conducting a DWI checkpoint somewhere in the city on Friday night. The checkpoint will be in effect from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. According to the department, the operation is meant to "deter, detect and...
Community Conversations: Superintendent outlines new initiatives for LCPS this school year
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — In today's Community Conversations, Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Ignacio Ruiz joined the KFOX14 Morning News to talk about the upcoming school year. The first day of school for LCPS is Monday. Ruiz spoke about some initiatives the district is rolling out this school...
Potential GRT increase to be determined by voters
Las Cruces Mayor Eric Enriquez asked residents to trust city leaders as City Council approved a ballot question at its July 15, 2025 meeting, that if passed by voters in November, would raise municipal gross receipt tax rates to generate $11 million of revenue per year. According to deputy economic...
Longtime OSU donors funding a scholarship program for students in rural northwest Oklahoma
Two longtime donors to Oklahoma State University will fund a new scholarship program designed to benefit rural students from northwestern Oklahoma, west Texas and eastern New Mexico, the OSU Foundation said Wednesday. The Thoma Scholars Program will be paid for through a donation from the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation....
Rain likely with lower temperatures
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Rain is falling across a few parts of the region this morning as The Monsoon pattern will continue in earnest ahead with some relief in the heat as well. Severe thunderstorms capable of producing not only flooding rainfall are likely for some ahead as rain activity start to re-ramp up late this […]
Rising Migrant Deaths in Southern New Mexico’s Desert Corridor
The deadly desert corridor in Southern New Mexico continues to claim lives. The U.S. Border Patrol recently confirmed that its agents discovered three deceased individuals last Monday near the Santa Teresa, New Mexico station. This area, extending several miles west from NM Highway 9 near the Santa Teresa border crossing...
Albuquerque police Chief Harold Medina reprimanded for crash
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An internal affairs investigation and disciplinary review led to letters of reprimand being issued to Albuquerque police Chief Harold Medina. Those letters were for his role in a vehicle crash in February that left Todd Perchert hurt while he was driving through an Albuquerque intersection. Internal...
Judge dismisses charges against Albuquerque man accused of murder
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A judge has dismissed the case against an Albuquerque man accused of murdering another man in his ex-girlfriend’s home two years ago. Fransisco Almeida was accused of breaking into his ex’s house and shooting to death Allen Sandoval in January 2022. His trial in front of Judge Cindy Leos started on Monday […]
Shooting between two vehicles leaves bystander on Albuquerque street injured
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Crime Stoppers is asking community members to come forward with information about a shooting in southeast Albuquerque on July 12. People inside two different vehicles exchanged gunfire at the intersection of Zuni Road SE and Charleston Street SE at 11:30 a.m. on July 12, according to Crime Stoppers. A bystander who was on the street was hit by one of the bullets.
New Mexico teen gunned down a mom in front of her young daughter. He thought he was killing someone else
A teen who admitted to opening fire on a car, killing a woman in front of her young daughter in 2022, has been sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to first-degree murder. Concretely, Ty Gallegos will spend 10 years in prison for the killing of Kayla Montaño in New Mexico....
UFC champ, Upstate NY native Jon Jones fights charges stemming from alleged hostility during drug test
Albuquerque, N.M. — UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico home in which he was accused of being hostile. Jones appeared seated next to his attorney as the pleas were entered on...
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