Covent Health Hobbs Hospital tops the list of recipients of grant funds from New Mexico’s newly established Rural Health Care Delivery Fund (RHCDF). Ten other “rural healthcare organizations”, including the The Psychiatric Care Center, LLC, located in Lea, Curry, DeBaca, Quay and Roosevelt counties, will receive grant monies. Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital will use the…

Discussions remain heated about New Mexico’s new congressional redistricting map that was signed into law in 2021 by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The new law, introduced as Senate Bill 1 in 2021 and later passed by state legislators before being signed by the governor, splits Lea County voters, and specifically the town of Hobbs, into…

Hobbs Police Department (HPD) officers have arrested and charged a 17-year-old juvenile on the count of “Murder – (first degree Felony)” in the shooting death of Maharshi Bhakta. The shooting incident took place in Hobbs at the Executive Inn Motel, 200 North Marland Blvd., sometime before 10:00 PM on Saturday, October 7. A HPD press…

New players and a change in direction for a current operator are coming to Lea County’s thriving oil and gas industry in the fourth quarter of 2023. Most recently, LM Energy Holdings, LLC has announced the sale of portions of its Touchdown Crude Oil Gathering System located in Lea and Eddy counties. Multiple buyers are…

Details are few about the death of 19-year-old Brennon Smith of Hobbs, on Monday, September 25. On that day Hobbs police officers responded at about 6:45 PM to the 200 block of West Copper Avenue in Hobbs in response to a vehicle crash.”Officers were informed by dispatch that a vehicle has crashed into a wall…

“A miracle happened in Hobbs today,” said Hobbs city manager Manny Gomez. Hobbs Fire Station 1 staff responded around noon on Saturday, September 23 to the station’s Safe Haven Baby Box alarm “to find a healthy newborn baby boy safe and sound within the incubator.”  About the incident, Hobbs Interim Fire Chief Mark Doporto told…

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday, September 15, narrowed her 30-day “emergency public health order” signed by New Mexico Health Secretary Patrick Allen that suspended both the open carry and “permitted concealed carry” of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. Now the order applies “…only to public parks and playgrounds where children and…

A deceased infant was found by hospital staff at Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital on Wednesday morning, September 13. According to a press release issued by the Hobbs Police Department (HPD), officers responded to 4900 North Lovington Highway (Covenant Health Hospital) “…in reference to a deceased baby.” “A 16-year-old juvenile, accompanied by her mother, was being…

A Thursday, September 7, power outage damaged the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems at several City of Hobbs facilities – the Public Library, City Hall, the Teen Center and the Municipal Court.  Damage to the public library’s HVAC system was extensive “…to the point that it no longer cools the facility,” states a…

Mary Johnson, of Hobbs, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the stabbing murder of her 11-year-old son Bruce Johnson, Jr. Originally charged with First Degree Murder by District Attorney Diana Luce and pleading “insanity and incapacity to form specific intent” to that charge, Johnson agreed to the lesser guilty charge of Second…