Toilet access, litter clean-up and fire risk monitoring all have been taken on by local groups as federal resources founder.

Toilet access, litter clean-up and fire risk monitoring all have been taken on by local groups as federal resources founder.

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) renewed his call for the Upper Pecos watershed to be protected from new mining claims.

By the 1960s, the town was a counterculture mecca, a setting for the 1969 film “Easy Rider” and home to a number of communes.

The 720-acre Camp Fire northeast of Ruidoso ignited Sunday near one of the most-intact military forts from the 19th century ...