The final night of the Red Dirt Black Gold Festival in downtown Artesia was officially rained out.

In addition to providing a creative and celebratory community event, the Residency Program will offer NDI New Mexico’s highly effective teaching methodology that incorporates dance instruction with live musical accompaniment and emphasizes social-emotional skills such as teamwork, self-confidence, and self-discipline that are critical to children’s long-term development. 

Standing in a hangar at the National Championship Air Races, Scott Saddlemire watched as his son Joshua prepared his red and white airplane “Red Zeppelin” for its race in the Biplane Class competition, which was starting just a few minutes later.

Artesia’s Estrella Gutierrez plays for U S National team  JT Keith  Artesia Daily Press  jtkeith@elritomedia.com  Artesia junior defender soccer player Estrella Gutierrez played a lot of sport this summer.

Volunteers gathered across Eddy County Thursday to help nonprofits.

Zaida currently works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she helps design lunar architecture as part of NASA’s efforts to send humans back to the moon.

JT Keith Artesia Daily Press jtketih@elritomedia.com The Gadsden Panthers football team will entertain the No.1 team in District 4-4A, the Artesia Bulldogs.

My stomach fell when I learned he had died.

When Artesia holds its annual hot-air balloon festival this fall, some earthbound vehicles will go along for the ride.

The National Championship Air Races concluded Sunday in Roswell after five days of airplane races and demonstrations, despite weather delays over the weekend and the exclusion of two of the main classes of aircraft from the competition.

JT Keith Artesia Daily Presss jtkeith@elritomedia.com The Artesia girls' volleyball team is coming off of a big win over the weekend while winning the Silver bracket championship at the Zia Classic Volleyball Tournament in Roswell against Hobbs on Saturday.

Federal nuclear waste managers denied elevators that bring radioactive refuse underground for disposal at a repository near Carlsbad were in disrepair or endangering workers, despite a series of concerns expressed by state officials and federal oversight agencies.