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The Parks and Recreation Department’s Keep Las Cruces Beautiful Program is hosting a Neighborhood Dumpster Day from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. KLCB will provide open-top trash containers at three locations for members of the community to dump yard waste, household trash and other permittable items for…

The City of Las Cruces Parks and Recreation Department will offer a two-week camp during Las Cruces Public Schools’ Fall Break and Intersession, Monday, Sept. 23 through Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. The Fall Break Camp will be open to children in kindergarten through fifth grade. Camp hours will be from…

The Las Cruces Police Department’s next Bridging the Badge livestream, scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 27, will focus on youth services provided by the City of Las Cruces. Ryan Steinmetz and Sofia Hughes, both from the City’s Parks and Recreation Department, will join LCPD hosts to discuss the many services provided…

CAPER The City of Las Cruces Housing & Neighborhood Services section has prepared a report of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) activities and status of funds for the period of July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. This report is known as the…

The City of Las Cruces invites residents to participate in a two-day interactive design workshop for the El Paseo Road and south Solano Drive Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan. The workshop gives participants the opportunity to share ideas and directly influence the future of the community. Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas are designated…

Las Cruces Police Department identified and arrested David Alan Leonard, 32, for shoplifting after a video posted to social media showed a theft at a local retail store. With the assistance of Retail Asset Protection partners, the Community Outreach Unit of LCPD identified Leonard as the masked individual responsible for…

A construction project within Las Cruces City Hall will force the temporarily relocation of utility payment cashiers to the Building Permits office of City Hall. During the past 60 days, the cashiers have been located at the Information Desk in the Lobby of City Hall. On Friday, August 23, 2024, they will once again be relocated….

“Dunes & Dreams: A Portrait of White Sands National Park,” stunning collection of photography from Emmitt Booher, will be exhibited at the Branigan Cultural Center Sept. 6 through Oct. 19, 2024. Booher’s photographs capture the majestic gypsum dunes at White Sands National Park. An opening reception for the exhibit, with…

The Las Cruces Museum of Art will open its newest exhibit, “Clyde Butcher: Lifeworks in Photography,” on Sept. 6 showcasing 45 photographic prints by the renowned large-format, black-and-white photographer. The retrospective exhibit spans Clyde Butcher’s 50-year career and presents a wide range of images from intimate portraits of a rare…

In observance of Labor Day, most City of Las Cruces offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. However, all emergency services, including police and fire, will operate as usual. City offices and facilities closed on Labor Day include: A Fielder Memorial Safe Haven City Hall East Mesa Recreation Center…

A retail crime operation conducted by Las Cruces police, the Department of Homeland Security and retail store investigators resulted in one arrest and the recovery of more than $8,000 in stolen merchandise from multiple locations. The coordinated effort between law enforcement and retail stores led to the arrest of a…

Mandy Leatherwood Guss, Communications Director for the City of Las Cruces, has been selected by Women We Admire as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of New Mexico for 2024. The acknowledgement was published in the Aug. 19, 2024, online issue of Women We Admire. Guss has been Communications…

With daytime temperatures expected to remain high over the next few days, the City of Las Cruces will keep its cooling stations open through Saturday. Daytime high temperatures are expected to be at or above 100 degree for the next several days. The City of Las Cruces will keep cooling…

Las Cruces City Councilors approved resolutions to hire an airport consultant and to enter four-year contracts with 10 temporary employment services during a regular meeting held Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The airport consultant, Dubois and King Inc. of Randolph, Vt., will be hired on a five-year contract to help with…

The Las Cruces Police Department’s Community Outreach Team hosts its Lunchbox Lemonade season finale Friday at the Unidad Park Splash Pad. The Lunchbox Lemonade series encourages Las Cruces residents of all ages to have lunch, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the Community Outreach Team at an area splash…