Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Otero County commissioners approved a new five-year detention contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a March 13 ...

OTERO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Otero County commissioners have renewed a contract with ICE, despite a new state law banning ICE detention facilities in New Mexico. Commissioners held an emergency meeting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to the state’s latest effort to block an immigrant detention contract in ...

OTERO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Otero County on Monday responded to the New Mexico Department of Justice’s claim that county commissioners violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when they held an ...

Otero County’s new contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for civil immigration detention is unlawful, Attorney General Raúl Torrez argued in an emergency court petition asking the New ...

WATCH THAT INVESTIGATION RIGHT NOW ON KOAT.COM OTERO COUNTY STILL FEELING THE HEAT AFTER RENEWING AN AGREEMENT WITH ICE TO HOLD DETAINEES, SOME CLAIM IT’S ILLEGAL WITH THE STATE SUPREME COURT ASKED TO ...

OTERO COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) - The New Mexico Department of Justice (NMDOJ) announced Friday that the Otero County Commission violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when it held an emergency ...

OTERO COUNTY, N.M. – Otero County is defending its Immigration and Custom Enforcement jail contract after the state asked the Supreme Court to block the county’s March 13 extension. The Otero County ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Department of Justice is trying to stop Otero County from following through on its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The NMDOJ filed a petition in ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Village of Tularosa, New Mexico, has declared a water emergency and has prohibited all outdoor ...

A Bernalillo County woman is hospitalized and an Otero County man is recovering after testing positive for West Nile virus.