The fire department working a desolate New Mexico mesa is made up of 15 anarchists and recluses and led by a friendly giant whose job is to be an administrator in a place that defies administration. By Michael Canyon Meyer.

Torrential rainfall will swiftly hit Arizona and New Mexico into Wednesday night as Newton’s tropical moisture moves in from Mexico.

Candles, flowers and stuffed animals mark the memorial for a 10-year old girl, who New Mexico police said was brutally murdered. Three people arrested in the case include her own mother. Victoria Martens had just started fourth grade at an Albuquerque elementary school and celebrated her 10th birthday Tuesday. On Wednesday, she was killed in what police described as a “horrific” crime.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has agreed to pay $475,000 to a woman who was subjected to a body cavity search at a Texas hospital, according to the American Civil Liberties Union chapters in Texas and New Mexico. The woman, who was not named in the ACLU’s lawsuit against the federal government, was taken to University Medical Center of El Paso in December 2012 after a drug sniffing dog alerted that she may have contraband as she crossed the border, according to court records.

Parents in New Mexico say they’re out of options with their teenage son. In an attempt to discipline their 16-year-old, they’ve started forcing him to live in tent as punishment. See the full video below.

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There are more than 1,400 homeless people in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now though, the state is working to get those people off the streets, by giving them jobs and living areas. Special Correspondent Kathleen McCleery reports on the city’s efforts.

The Lobos keep their division title hopes alive with a win over Boise State. This game featured all the miscues and improbable plays of a classic and is the most important win in the Bob Davie-era.

Holly Holm shocked the world with a vicious second round knockout over Ronda Rousey to win the UFC women's bantamweight title.

A New Mexico man was arrested last Thursday after allegedly beating his friend to death with a microwave and a guitar, all because he thought the friend had begun to “change into a zombie.” Damon Perry, 23, told police that he had been binge-watching The Walking Dead on Netflix before the incident, according to KOB 4 Albuquerque.

Some of my favorites from the mass ascension this morning.

The New Mexico secretary of state, who oversees campaign finance reporting and once bemoaned a "culture of corruption" in the state, has been accused of using her election fund as a personal piggy bank at jewelry stores, ATMs and casinos. Secretary of State Dianna K. Duran already faces allegations of financial crimes, stemming from a separate August indictment.

In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand. Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in the suburbs. It will be supplied with pristine streets, parks, malls and a church. But no one will ever call it home.

BP has agreed to pay out more than $20bn in compensation for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Justice Department and five US states finalised the deal that will settle all civil claims against the British energy giant and ends five years of legal fighting over the nearly 134m-gallon spill.

Boasting one of most incredibly scenic and diverse landscapes in North America, New Mexico offers endless opportunities for exploration and adventure. With strong influences of both Native American and Hispanic culture, the state offers the visitor a multitude of unique attractions both in large cities like Santa Fe and Albuquerque as well as the smaller hubs of UFO-focused Roswell and the artists' colony of Taos.

This is my view from the top of the Sandia Mountains.