New Mexico lawmakers will convene at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 21 with a hefty 60-day agenda and a healthy budget to help fund ...

City and county officials Wednesday took the first step toward fixing a problem that has existed locally since at least the ...

In my role here at The Optic, I aim to do good things for the Las Vegas community. I take my role in deciding what goes ...

Nearly three years after the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, several in the community who lost everything in its devastation ...

Multiple local school districts alerted families this week of a cybersecurity breach on Powerschool, which involved ...

New Mexico Highlands University University President Dr. Neil Woolf has named Shanna Halalilo NMHU's Athletic Director. As a ...

The Ivan Hilton Science and Technology Building on the New Mexico Highlands University campus welcomed faculty, staff and ...

This past week my sleep has been disturbed as I watch news accounts of the wildfire destruction in the Mecca of the film ...

Set in Nevada but filmed primarily in the original Las Vegas, “Laws of Man” is a movie that centers on two U.S. Marshals who ...

Las Vegas police allege that a man from Santa Fe broke into a Las Vegas elementary school building after driving drunk and crashing into a gate. Police arrested 37-year-old James C. Naranjo on Jan. 6 ...

After their first year of existence, two New Mexico wildland firefighting teams say they’re on track to become certified ...

It is shaping up to be a fun district season in girls basketball in Las Vegas, as the Meadow City is home to two of the top ...