Phillip Schoenberg, Faculty Senate president at Western New Mexico University, center, talks about revisions of the faculty handbook, which mostly consisted of bringing in gender-neutral language, ...

Members of the first graduating class of the WNMU Law Enforcement Training Academy stand with Director Gil Najar at the academy’s 50th anniversary celebration, held Sept. 11. Pictured from left are ...

Gila resident Lamar Gearhart reasons with the Grant County Commission at Thursday’s meeting, asking them to consider action that might give him peace from his neighbor’s peacocks. The Grant County ...

Patrice Mutchnick, director of Heart of the Gila, speaks during the comment session of a hearing Wednesday on the U.S. Air Force’s draft environmental impact statement for a plan to expand military ...

Laura Martinez, a STEM education specialist with New Mexico State University, talks at Monday’s meeting of the Cobre Consolidated Schools Board of Education about curriculum kits supplied to teachers ...

Carney Foy of Foy Inc. and Priscilla Lucero, executive director of the Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, introduce a proposal Monday for Bayard to purchase a large piece of land owned by ...

Silver City firefighters were out at dawn Wednesday, placing 343 small U.S. flags on the Fire Department side of the Thomas Ryan Public Safety Building lawn, along with 71 additional flags on the ...

A new statewide water conservation campaign features Silver City and several of its residents talking about the need to protect its resources. Water Can’t Wait is a project of the Water Foundation, a ...

When the new Silver City recreation center is completed next spring, it will bear the name of a man who had a large role in bringing recreation to the youth of Grant County. The Silver City Town ...

Western New Mexico University’s Marivel Medel introduces a grant-funded urban forestry project to the County Commission at Tuesday’s work session that will plant 1,000 trees in Silver City, the Mining ...

The Cliff-Gila Grant County Fair returns this month, and once again the Daily Press is recruiting area high school students to work as reporters at the newspaper’s fair bureau. “The fair highlights ...

Dolores Altamirano of Mimbres, left, accepts a gift bag from Elysha Montoya of the Frontier Food Hub for her winning salsa, Dee’s Spicy Habit, at Saturday’s Salsa Showdown in Hurley. As part of the ...