Category Archives: KKOB Local News

Man arrested for blowing up pipe bombs near NMSU
Las Cruces, NM (KKOB) - A man is jailed in Doa Ana County after several explosions were reported in a desert area just south of New Mexico State University at the Tortugas Dam. Police reports indicate...
Zoltan Csanyi 9h ago

Bicyclist killed in fatal crash with motor vehicle
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) - An Albuquerque man is in jail in connection with a fatal crash where a man riding a bicycle was killed over the weekend. Brent Curley was arrested shortly after the crash that...
Zoltan Csanyi 9h ago

Single-vehicle crash injures two pedestrians
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- On the evening of June 16th, Santa Fe Police Officers arrested 21 year old Jacob Arnal, after he was involved in a single-vehicle crash. Arnal's vehicle left the roadway on P...
Mike Gaba Jun 18, 2026

Woolf will get his separation pay
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- New Mexico Highlands University Neil Woolf's departure was the first in a wave of high-level dismissals. The university also removed its provost, several vice presidents and ...
Mike Gaba Jun 18, 2026

APD Confirms Separate Investigations After Suspicious Death and SWAT Activity
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Albuquerque police are clarifying that a suspicious death investigation and recent SWAT activity are not connected. The suspicious death investigation began after human remains wer...
Natassja Leyba Jun 18, 2026

APD Investigating Suspicious Death in Northwest Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Albuquerque police are investigating a suspicious death at a home in northwest Albuquerque. Officers were dispatched to a residence in the 700 block of 72nd Street NW, where a dece...
Natassja Leyba Jun 18, 2026

AFR crews seeing increase in heat related emergency calls
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) - Albuquerque Fire Rescue is seeing an increase in heat related emergency calls due to the extreme heat happening this week, which will continue for several days. So far this mo...
Zoltan Csanyi Jun 18, 2026 boscorelli / Depositphotos.com

Man arrested in bat beating homicide
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) - Albuquerque police has made an arrest in connection with the bat beating of a man near a smoke shop in Southeast Albuquerque on June 11th. 30-year old Darren DeHerrera was arr...
Zoltan Csanyi Jun 18, 2026

2 pedestrians injured in Santa Fe DWI related crash
Santa Fe, NM (KKOB) - In Santa Fe, a man is in jail after he hit two pedestrians on Plaza Central. Just before 10 p.m Tuesday, Santa Fe police were called to the plaza for a traffic crash involving a ...
Zoltan Csanyi Jun 18, 2026

Funding for clean water
Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the availability of $25.5 million in grant funding. The monies will go for technical assistance providers to help sma...
Mike Gaba Jun 17, 2026









