In my role here at The Optic, I aim to do good things for the Las Vegas community. I take my role in deciding what goes ...

Set in Nevada but filmed primarily in the original Las Vegas, “Laws of Man” is a movie that centers on two U.S. Marshals who ...

Las Vegas police allege that a man from Santa Fe broke into a Las Vegas elementary school building after driving drunk and crashing into a gate.

Nearly three years after the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, several in the community who lost everything in its devastation ...

The Ivan Hilton Science and Technology Building on the New Mexico Highlands University campus welcomed faculty, staff and ...

This past week my sleep has been disturbed as I watch news accounts of the wildfire destruction in the Mecca of the film ...

What is more important, short-term excitement or long-term success? This is a question that I have thought about a lot recently as I watch the National Football League, but it is also a question that ...

Idalia “Dolly” A. Salas passed away peacefully surrounded by family in her home at the Lazy Anchor Ranch, in Villanueva N.M. on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. Born on Aug. 22, 1933, Dolly was 91. She is ...

Leroy R. Vigil, born on July 8, 1960, in Las Vegas, N.M., passed away Nov. 7, 2024 in his home town Albuquerque, N.M. He is preceded in death by his parents, Jose T ...

Moses was born in Las Vegas, N.M., on Feb. 8, 1960, to Filadelfio Marquez and Mary (Romo) Marquez, and raised in Anton Chico, N.M. He attended Anton Chico Schools, and Santa Rosa High School, and ...

As part of a spending bill that kept the federal government operational before the holiday season, both branches of Congress approved an additional $1.5 billion for victims of New Mexico’s largest ...

A beloved husband, Martin Garcia, 64, of Villanueva, N.M. passed away peacefully (with his wife Patricia Garcia by his side) on Dec. 20, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. He was born on Aug. 2, ...