SIMPLE TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY. THE FATHER OF BALLOON IS SID CUTTER. HIS AND IMAGE DISPLAYED A BRONZE STATUE AT FIESTA PARK SHOWS CUTTER ON THE EDGE OF A BASKET, HIS DOGS TAGGING ALONG FOR THE FLIGHT. WE ...

Balloon Fiesta has launched from several locations in Albuquerque, including present-day Balloon Fiesta Park.Coronado Center and the state fairgroundsThe first location was Coronado Center. That year, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the 45th year, a spectacle that has made Albuquerque the Hot Air Ballooning Capitol of the world is set to rise high above the city. While its hundreds of balloons and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As many of you know, Balloon Fiesta is the biggest event in New Mexico each year, but it didn’t start that way. KOB 4 has a look back at how Balloon Fiesta got off the ground.

Sid Cutter, who staged a hot-air balloon rally nearly 40 years ago that evolved into an annual fall festival and helped transform Albuquerque into a capital of ballooning, has died. He was 77. Cutter ...

Balloon Fiesta visitors will finally have an amenity they have long wanted: flushing toilets. The city of Albuquerque announced Monday that restrooms will be built near the Sid Cutter Pilots’ Pavilion ...