The Gila National Forest, Silver City Ranger District recently completed upgrades to the Jack’s Peak Trailhead in the southern Burro Mountains off of New Mexico Highway 90, between Silver City and Lordsburg. The popular trailhead provides access to the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. Design of the new, larger trailhead includes delineated areas for driving and parking; culverts and swales [...]

Interested in volunteering?  Luna County is currently seeking letters of interest to serve as a member of the Marshall Memorial Library. Please submit your letters of interest no later than April 5th to the Luna County Manager’s office.  The Town of Silver City has board vacancies for the Lodger’s Tax Advisory Board, the Museum Advisory Board, and the Planning and [...]

The New Mexico History Conference is happening in Silver City March 30th through April 1st at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center.  This is a major event and group to be coming to our area. The New Mexico History Conference is the signature event of the Historical Society of New Mexico and has taken place in locations [...]

For our anglers, New Mexico Fishing licenses for 2022-23 are still on sale and valid until March 31st. The 2023-23 licenses will go on sale March 27th and be valid after April 1st.  In other fishing news, The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish are promoting fishing opportunities through a Bass and Trout challenge.  If you catch all of [...]

Next week, the Hidalgo County Teen Maze will take place on Tuesday, March 28th, and Wednesday, March 29th.  There will be more than 1000 junior and high school students from the area participating.  The teen maze is a three-dimensional game-based maze in which 35 agencies collaborate to ensure that youth have the opportunity to make real-life hypothetical decisions and also [...]

The Silver City Public Library will be holding classes on basic computer literacy on March 22 and 29, both Wednesdays, from three to five. These will be very basic classes covering the most essential parts of computer usage for beginners such as mouse usage, keyboard usage, file and folder structure, emailing and Web searches. Class size will be limited to [...]

Here is a look at some local news and happenings brought to you by Silver City Radio. The Gila National Forest is reporting an unusually wet spring on the Gila National Forest. Caution is advised to nearly all visitors due to soft roads and abnormally high river flows. The 2022 monsoon season delivered nearly double the amount of rain as [...]

The Gila National Forest, Reserve Ranger District is planning on burning the slash pile at the Reserve Community Slash Pit. Officials plan to ignite the prescribed fire as soon as desired weather and fire conditions permit. Following last year’s pause of prescribed fire operations, Forest Service Chief Randy Moore released the USDA Forest Service National Prescribed Fire Review on Sept. [...]

The New Mexico Department of Veterans Services has made recent appointments to field offices.  Clint Anderson has been named to fill the Disabled Veterans Services field service division office in Las Cruces. Mr. Anderson, a Navy veteran, will be located at the DVS office, located at 2024 East Griggs Avenue in Las Cruces. For the Silver City office, Clarissa Sierra, [...]

Former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman will give a talk titled, “The Breakdown in Congressional Governing Norms, and Impediments to Serving the Public Interest.” The presentation is based on his book Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis, published in 2022, and is sponsored by Western New Mexico University in conjunction with the 2023 New Mexico History Conference in Silver City. [...]