Category: Comunidád Vital

Sessions are held from 6 – 7:30 p.m. every Monday (January 6, 13, 20, and 27) in the Kiva Room, and from 1:30 – 5:30 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday, (January 11 and 25) in the Roadrunner Room.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has the immense task of recovering, identifying and returning them to their families, and we’re proud to support their mission.

New Mexico’s newborns are making their mark with popular names like Noah, Camila, Mia, and Liam leading the way. 

The Citizens Police Academy is a tuition free, four-week program designed to introduce members of the community to the Las Cruces Police Department.

Las Cruces Public Libraries invites you to find out by joining in for Banned Books on FILM to view the movie “The Wizard of OZ” from 2-4:45 p.m. on Monday, January 6, 2025, in the Staff Conference Room at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, 200 E. Picacho Street.

Calling all families with 1st-5th graders in Las Cruces! Join Southern New Mexico Mountain Biking & Friends of the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks January 18 for a free bicycle skills clinic with obstacles, games, a neighborhood ride and more. Bikes and helmets are available to borrow. Registration is recommended.

The projected world population on Jan. 1, 2025, is 8,092,034,511, an increase of 71,178,087 (0.89%) from New Year’s Day 2024.

Las Cruces saw only 3.64″ of rain in 2024–5.5″ below normal. This marked the driest two-year stretch on record, and the 3rd driest single year since 1892.

This month’s theme features first movies in a long running spy series and begins at 11 a.m. on January 4, 2024, in the Kiva Room on the first floor of the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library

Following historically low growth at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. population grew substantially by almost 1% since 2023, outpacing average annual growth since 2000 and signaling a significant turnaround from the meager population gains at the start of this decade.

A Southwest Border Cultures Institute (SBCI) grant last year gave a much-needed boost to support Julia Smith’s efforts to restore and digitize the films of the late Orville Wanzer

Wyatt is better known for his long time court side persona… Pistol Pete. [Photo: Courtesy NMSU Department of Criminal Justice via Facebook]

Las Cruces and Doña Ana County — home to one of New Mexico’s highest shares of immigrant residents — suffer from a shortage of doctors and medical specialists even more acute than the rest of the state.

LCPS will construct a 0.17-mile trail segment along the frontage of the new Columbia Elementary School that will serve as a vital connection between an existing trail and a planned future extension and provide a safe, accessible pathway for pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorized users. 

The Outdoor Legacy Project provides no-cost access to gear rentals, immersive wilderness camps, and day events for youth, emphasizing conservation, cultural education, social-emotional wellbeing, and youth leadership opportunities.

This event is a wonderful opportunity to bring our community together in the spirit of the season.

Did you know that pigeons have a long history with the military? Their abilities to focus on home and to travel long distances in difficult conditions made them successful and reliable couriers. Source: National Agricultural Library by Jesse Padron, Special Collections Library Technician In fact, the U.S. Army Signal Corps recruited messenger pigeons and handlers during…

The 2024 World Series is pitting teams from the nation’s two most populous cities against one another – the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, rivals who are matched for the first time in 43 years.

By early afternoon, the crowds had shifted to Plaza Amistad on S. Solano Dr. in Las Cruces. Inside one of the strip mall units, U.S. Congressional Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), rallied supporters for the New Mexico 2nd Congressional District Republican candidate.

The Faces of Fentanyl exhibit is one of the museum’s featured exhibits, and commemorates the lives lost to fentanyl. More than 5,000 faces are included in the exhibit at DEA Headquarters as a reminder of the lives lost and the work still left to be done to reverse course on the fentanyl crisis.

The Las Cruces Police Department’s Community Outreach Team hosts its Lunchbox Lemonade season finale Friday at the Unidad Park Splash Pad.

New Mexico State University Aggies Without Limits volunteers set up six solar panels to power the pump transporting fresh spring water more than one mile to 81 spigots in the Guatemalan town of Unillá Pacalá.

Grant supports disaster-relief jobs, training services in affected communities

While younger than the non-Hispanic population, the Hispanic or Latino population has aged faster over the past decade, according to 2020 Census data released today.

A leader in hazing prevention research, the HPC is a multiyear research-to-practice initiative of StopHazing that supports colleges and universities in planning, developing and implementing data-informed, campus-wide hazing prevention.