United Way of Lea County is hosting its annual Stuff-A-Bus event from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Walgreens on Turner. The goal is to fill 2,000 backpacks that will be distributed to school children throughout Lea County.

Tim Paxton and his daughter Caitlyn Paxton of Okemah, Okla. team up together to set up this years fireworks display for the City of Hobbs Annual July Fourth Community Celebration at Harry McAdams Park. For more on the Paxton family and this year’s Hobbs fireworks display read Tuesday’s Hobbs News-Sun.

Guy Coupé and his family came home Monday from a weekend vacation to discover they were the victims of a house invasion. Each of the several thousand invaders had six legs, two antenna and a pair of wings, and most of them were on the roof of the house they had decided to make their mating ground. “They literally looked …

More than 1,500 attend the performance of Norteño band Los Rieleros during the first Downtown Sounds concert event at the Shipp Street Plaza in downtown Hobbs on Saturday, June 24. Los Parientes Del Bajillo of Denver City was the opening performing band.

The hail storm on Friday, June 23 caused a road block on the intersection of Millen and Lovington Highway.

Hobbs firefighters were asked to walk on a plank of wood in groups of three or four and maneuver their team to different platforms without touching the ground during a team building activity Tuesday as part of Safety Stand Down Week. The Hobbs Fire Department is observing Safety Stand Down Week Monday through today. “Safety Stand Down Week happens every …

Firefighter crews from Hobbs and Monument responded early Friday morning to a tank battery fire 20 miles west of Hobbs on State Highway 529, between mile marker 26 and 27.