Sources: Reuters
The Department of State Health Services in Texas, United States, places several major cities in the state on high alert due to a measles outbreak that spreads to 99 people in Texas and New Mexico, the third-largest outbreak since it was considered eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. 2025-02-24
The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns to Earth uncrewed, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, United States, after being docked for three months at the International Space Station. 2024-09-7
The Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico, U.S, grows to 300,000 acres, becoming the largest wildfire in the state's history. 2022-05-16
In an article for "Science", a team of researchers based at Bournemouth University conclude that a series of human footprints preserved at White Sands National Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico date back between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, suggesting that humans lived in the Americas 5,000 years earlier than previously thought. The team also determined that most of the footprints came from children and teenagers. 2021-09-24
At least eight people are reported dead and many sent to hospitals after a bus crash on a New Mexico highway. 2018-08-30
Copies of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and other Atari games that were buried in 1983 are discovered in a New Mexican desert. 2014-04-26
2013 meat adulteration scandal: Britain's Food Standards Agency says that 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary and labelled as beef has been discovered in Lancashire. 2013-03-22
German authorities find horse meat in lasagne sold in Germany, as in Italy further tests will be conducted soon. 2013-02-14
A wildfire worsens near major U.S. nuclear weapons research lab Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico; residents express concern about contamination. 2011-06-29
A gunman opens fire at a fiber optics plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, killing two and wounding four before committing suicide. 2010-07-12