Kurt Johnson

The flashing lights at Young Park first caught Abigail Salas' attention almost by accident. She was out with friends that March evening in 2025 when she noticed police activity near the park. At first, she didn't think much of it.

He was sitting down to write an essay for the Optimist Club contest, turning over a prompt about service and community in his mind, when he started thinking about onions.

City to review input, with decision expected possibly by June 9

For three innings, the state championship game looked tense enough to become another fight. Mayfield led rival Las Cruces High just 3-0, and inside the Trojans dugout, nobody seemed interested in acting comfortable. Then somebody reached base....

Mesilla Valley Christian's baseball team spent $180 trying to win it. By the end of the season, nobody thought it was overpriced.

Five years ago, when Organ Mountain High School golfer Eleanor Warden walked into the state tournament as an eighth grader, she walked in alone. There was no girls team. No teammates warming up beside her. No score to chase together. Just...

The Mesilla Valley Christian boys golf team had already won four straight state championships, but that did not make the fifth one feel safe. After the first day of the Class A/3A state tournament May 11 at Turtleback Mountain Golf & Resort,...

The applause inside Popejoy Hall had barely settled when Mia Lopez Berkson started trying to process what had happened. Weeks earlier, the recent Organ Mountain High School graduate had been on stage dressed as Scuttle in “Disney’s The Little...

For Luis Alfonso Castro, directing “9 to 5” at Las Cruces Community Theatre was never just about putting on a musical. The production had lived in his head for years before rehearsals ever began — before the auditions, before the music filled the...

For Adrian Galaz, the hallways at Organ Mountain High School have never really been just hallways. They are memory lanes. Every corner of the campus carries pieces of the kid he once was — the athlete walking through the old Onate High School...