The Wild West is back and bigger than ever at the second – but certainly not last – Free Haunting at Bootheel Halloween event. Jessica Holm, the owner and operator of the Bootheel Old West Town and ...

Leoaardo Vasquez heard about a free fishing day at Trees Lake in Deming. The 16-year-old had never fished before and he decided a free fishing day would be a good opportunity to learn and give it try.

Joe “Butter” Milo calls himself an advocate for the north side of the city. “I remember when the north end of town had no street lights, street signs, or adequate sewers,” Milo told the Headlight. “A ...

Tiffany Coleman is one of five candidates that are running for the District 2 seat on the DPS School Board, and may just be the newest to the area to boot. Coleman hails from the Silicon Valley in ...

After a night of lights, sparkles and pageantry, four young women walked away with their crowns held high last Thursday night after the Southwestern New Mexico State Fair Royalty Pageant. Deleighna ...

Red Mountain Middle School music teacher Gerard Flores will be before Judge Jennifer DeLaney in New Mexico Sixth Judicial District Court for a Detention and Preliminary Hearing at 9:45 a.m. on ...

The Southwestern New Mexico State Fair has officially returned to Deming, and cowboys around the area are itching to get into the saddle. From Youth events and ranch rodeo, to a brand new event for ...

Edgar Davalos; a history of public service. He stepped out from the shadows of the Deming Headlight press as a pressman and served the community of Deming for 24 years as a Deming Fire Department ...

Daniel Krowl has served on the Deming Public School Board for two terms, and he says hopefully will for one more following this November’s election. Krowl may not have been born here, but he was ...

The Wildcat plan is to get better each week and work harder than you did the week before. That doesn’t always translate into wins and the Deming High varsity football team is hungry for one after two ...

As the fall semester hits its swing, the students around Deming are beginning to settle in, and it’s no different for those at Cesar Chavez Charter High School. Director Noel Nunez says that the ...

Voter participation was better than average in Luna County in 2024, with a total of 8.075 ballots cast, according to the Luna County Clerk’s Office on Tuesday evening. That’s a 58 percent voter ...