Tourism

Spaceport America Cup Brings Rocket Competition to Sierra County

The Spaceport America Cup is designed around IREC – the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition for student rocketry teams from all over the country [...]

Summer’s here and the time is right for the waters of Elephant Butte

Now that the unofficial opening weekend of summer has come and gone with Memorial Day, when about 100,000 people descended on Elephant Butte Lake State Park, [...]

Sierra County Holds First Comprehensive Plan Meeting

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES - Around a dozen citizens attended a public meeting on Tuesday night in Sierra County Commission Chambers, the first of three meetings [...]

Southern New Mexico offers snowlike sand, hot springs, sandhill cranes

Ed. Note: A dispatch from Columbus Ohio about our region. When the rambling man inside your head threatens to grab the wheel, succumb: A good old-fashioned [...]

Spaceport America Rocket Competition Set

SPACEPORT AMERICA, NM (Press Release) –Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport located in southern New Mexico in the USA [...]

Secretary Designate Geisel Attends Public Dedication of Healing Waters Plaza

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM - Today, New Mexico Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Designate Matt Geisel attended a public dedication and ribbon cutting for [...]

City Commission Approves Brewery License

In a Tuesday night meeting, the Truth or Consequences City Commission voted unanimously to approve the application for a Small Brewers License by Truth or [...]

New Mexico Tourism Department creates development division

Ed. Note: Tourism brought almost $50,000,000 into Sierra County last year. The New Mexico Tourism Department has created a new tourism development [...]

Tourism brings almost $50M to Sierra County in 2015

Visitor spending in Sierra County reached $49.9 million in 2015, an increase of 4.8% from the previous year. Direct visitor spending in New Mexico has grown [...]

A Turning Point in Turner Country

Right after you go past the Bosque del Apache while driving down I-25, you cut through a corner of the Armendaris Ranch. Soon you come up along-side some [...]