Lea County’s added 25 positive cases for COVID-19 on Wednesday. With those, the county now has a cumulative total of 965 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 out of 14,010 tests. Of those 965 cases, the state says 294 have been designated as totally recovered.As of Wednesday, hospitals in Lea County report they had eight patients in the last seven days …

Lea County’s added 23 positive cases for COVID-19 Tuesday. With those, the county now has a cumulative total of 679 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 out of 11,100 tests. Of those 679 cases, the state says 176 have been designated as totally recovered. Of those positive tests, 375 were for the 88240 or Hobbs zip code, 181 were …

Lea County cumulative total added 11 positive tests for COVID-19 on Friday. The county now has a cumulative total of 333 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 out of 7,484 tests. There have been no deaths due to COVID-19 in Lea County. Nor-Lea reported on Thursday it had no patients in its hospital who are positive for COVID-19. Of …

Casey’s restaurant in Hobbs was cited Wednesday by N.M. State Police for staying open after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered all restaurants to only serve customers outdoors or with carry-out, to-go orders. In the photo, the state police officers, who are not in uniform and are the masked pair in the middle, speak with the owners as well as other …

Lea County cumulative total added 8 positive tests for COVID-19 on Thursday after adding two positive cases on Wednesday The county now has a cumulative total of 142 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those 142 cases, the state says 31 have been designated as totally recovered. In Lea County as of Thursday, there has been tests 5,234 …

Lea County cumulative total added six positive tests for COVID-19 on Monday but also saw a big jump in the number of people tested. The county now has 113 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the state began tracking test results. Of those 106 cases, the state says 26 have been designated as totally recovered. In Lea County …

Lea County cumulative total added six positive tests for COVID-19 on Sunday and six on Saturday or 12 cases for the weekend. The county now has 106 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the state began tracking test results. Of those 106 cases, the state says 25 have been designated as totally recovered. In Lea County as of …

The state announced on Monday Lea County added three new cases. The total brings the county to 32 cases since the coronavirus began being tracked by the N.M. Department of Health. In nearby Eddy County, it now has 38 cases. To the north of Lea County, Roosevelt county has 45 cases and Curry has 64. Northwest of Lea County, Chaves …

After going several days with no new COVID-19 cases in Lea County, N.M. state health officials announced three new positive tests for COVID-19 in Lea County. Since the start of coronavirus, Lea County has had 21 positive cases. At least two of those cases have recovered per local officials but state health officials have not been informing local officials about …

It was different. It was scary. “It was fun,” said Mark Veteto, co-founder of the Veteto Foundation, which since 2007 has annually celebrated the work of five Hobbs schools educators with its Excellence in Teaching Award. Normally, foundation members would make school visits in April and hold an in-class presentation for each recipient. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mark …