The contest, themed “The Art of Conservation,” is open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade and invites ...

Registration is open for the 2026 Festival of the Cranes, with organizers offering dozens of free classes, photography ...

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Celebrate 130 years with green chile Bloody Marys, barbecue, mariachi and live music during New Mexico Tech’s 49ers weekend.

Meet Lucinda Whitehorse, the library coordinator preserving campus history and creating a welcoming space for all.

El Defensor Chieftain sent candidate questionnaires to Socorro County candidates for the upcoming General Election. Responses from candidates will run over the next several newspaper editions.

Gary Lynn Gonzales, age 71, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on September 21, 2026, in Windsor, Colorado. Gary was born in Pueblo, Colorado and grew up in Socorro, New Mexico, ...

Little Bolson tortoises no bigger than a pair of hands are slowly reclaiming a place in New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert after disappearing from the region thousands of years ago. At the Sevilleta ...

The Magdalena girls’ varsity team lost a heartbreaker to the Des Moines Lady Demons at home on March 6. The Magdalena girls fought and the fans cheered their hearts out until the very last second.

James Norman Kern Fogarty was born in 1940 at the Miners Hospital in Grass Valley, California, to Norman and Grace Howe Fogarty. He spent the rest of his life proving that the best way to get where ...

A new kind of puzzle is coming to the Chieftain, thanks to Socorro resident and National Radio Astronomy Observatory astronomer Brian Svoboda, who is launching a semi‑regular chess problem column ...

As the Socorro Farmers Market readies its return to the Plaza in May, state lawmakers are moving forward with a proposal that could significantly expand how low‑income families use Double Up Food ...