Top Local Stories 2025
Otero County Commissioners emergency meeting ruled invalid : NM Attorney General
Alamogordo, NM (KKOB) - The state attorney general has ruled that the emergency meeting held by Otero County Commissioners on March 13 to sign a new 5-year contract with ICE to keep open an immigration detention center located in Chaparral, was an invalid meeting. The meetin...
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Wildfire Cuba Ranger District
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) --Fire crews continue to work the Nacimiento Wildfire that began this weekend. The fire is in the Cuba Ranger district, located south of the Nacimiento Mine and NM State Road 126. Smoke is visible from Cuba NM and surrounding communities. Large Air Ta...
27m ago
Montgomery north off-ramp from I-25 to be closed for 3 weeks
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -Starting today and for the next 3 weeks the northbound off-ramp at I-25 and Montgomery will be closed. The closure of the off-ramp happened overnight and will remain closed 24/7 so NMDOT crews will build a new off-ramp all part of the I-25 expansion. ...
29m ago
Lawsuit over Project Jupiter may proceed
Las Cruces, NM (KKOB) - A lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center against Project Jupiter, the massive data center being built in the Santa Teresa area, argues that the development will negatively impact local soil, consume substantial water resources, and r...
32m ago
3rd person arrested for killing in Pajarito Mesa pleads no contest
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB)- 19-year old Daniel Medrano Garcia, one of the three people arrested in the shooting death of 16-year old Jesus Quintana Cota in the Pajarito Mesa pled No Contest on several charges including first-degree murder and armed robbery. The case dates back ...
36m ago
Convicted child sex offender from Colorado arrested in southern New Mexico
Otero County, NM (KKOB) - A convicted sex offender from Colorado has been captured in Chaparral, New Mexico. According to a spokesperson with the 23rd Judicial District Attorney's Office in Colorado, Jorge Campos was spotted on a bus heading to Mexico. Deputies with the Oter...
40m ago
APS to have first of two community town halls tonight at 6 p.m.
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) - The Albuquerque Public Schools Board will have the first of two Town Halls with members of the community tonight at 6 p.m. The Town Halls are an opportunity for the board to discuss progress towards the district;s goals and what APS is doing to impr...
47m ago
Santa Fe Woman Found Dead
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) --Deputies from the Santa Fe Sheriff's office were dispatched Sunday afternoon to a home in the Rancho Viejo area. Once at the home, 49 year old Jennifer Vigil was found to be deceased. Her death is being investigated as a homicide by detectives from t...
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