New Mexico

Charles Thomas “Chuck” Coleman was the only person aboard a small plane when it went down during the Las Cruces Air and Space Expo in New Mexico.

Miles Teller paid tribute to Charles Thomas “Chuck” Coleman after his death in a plane crash at the age of 61 Oct. 20. Coleman had helped train the cast of Top Gun: Maverick.

One balloon partially caught fire and another struck a radio tower.

A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died after an automobile crash in New Mexico. Charles McMillan was 69.

Not many people know the world’s first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil. It would be weeks later that humanity would witness the power of atomic weapons when bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II.

A Fort Worth native says they lost everything in a deadly wildfire. The New Mexico fires are still burning as of Tuesday night, with two dead and many others missing. The entire town of Ruidoso was forced to evacuate over a week ago, and many residents have not yet returned home.

The South Fork Fire and Salt Fire are still burning with two dead and dozens of others listed as missing.

Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week.

Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, arrested an 11-year-old boy on allegations that the child went on a violent monthlong crime spree, including car burglaries and shootings.

Police in Albuquerque are searching for a man who allegedly set his ex-girlfriend’s home in New Mexico.

U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin identified the downed plane as an F-35 that left Fort Worth, Texas, earlier Tuesday and was headed to Edwards Air Force Base near Los Angeles

Three women were likely infected while getting “vampire facials” at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico, the CDC said.

A pickup truck belonging to Thomas Robison, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was found abandoned on Sunday.

A missing teen with autism has been found in New Mexico — about 200 miles away from his home in southern Arizona, according to New Mexico State Police.

The then 16-year-old “suffered a large and deep laceration across her right hand and wrist,” according to the lawsuit filed by her family.

The New Mexico Justice Department has declined to file charges against police officers who went to the wrong address on a call last year and fatally shot the homeowner when he answered the door armed with a gun.

The Bengal tiger cub was found by Albuquerque police in a dog crate after officers followed a trail of blood into a trailer.

Trinity Site is usually closed to the public because of its proximity to the impact zone for missiles fired at White Sands Missile Range. But twice a year the site opens to spectators.

The balloon was part of the annual Albuquerque Balloon Festival.

The fiesta, with more than 500 balloons filling the sky, has morphed into one of the most photographed events in the world.