Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fires have razed 1,400 structures, caused widespread power outages, and even killed two people. (photo/KOB4) Close to 25,000 ...

The outlook for redevelopment of the Mescalero Sawmill complex brightened Tuesday with the groundbreaking for a new emergency operations center at the sawmill site. The center will consist of ...

The “Ruidoso Mescalero Apache Honor Day Festival” will be Saturday, May 31st from 10 a.m. — 7 p.m. Country Club Park in Midtown on the corner at 2180 Sudderth Dr. & Country Club. The festival will ...

Update (4:10 PM): The Mescalero Apache Fire Rescue provided an update on the fire, estimating its size at two acres now, and stating that a fire line has been completed and all forward progressing has ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico (AP) — Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico ...

Federal authorities suspect a man and his girlfriend intentionally set the Salt Fire — which torched 7,000 acres around Ruidoso — and more than a dozen smaller forest fires in the surrounding area.