Fire crews with the U.S. Forest Service are working to put out a wildfire that started burning Monday morning near Ruidoso.

RUIDOSO, New Mexico (KVIA) -- A new wildfire just started near Ruidoso, New Mexico. Officials are calling the blaze the Blue Front Fire. Ruidoso dealt with two disastrous wildfires this summer, which ...

(Photo courtesy of EMNRD) Two fires burning in abandoned coal mines since at least 2011 – and possibly much longer – were finally extinguished near Gallup recently, thanks to a dedicated effort by a ...

The Blue Front Fire is currently northwest of the Village of Ruidoso in the burn scar of a previous wildfire from this summer ...

‘We don’t want our church to go away’: Small New Mexico community raising money to repair long-standing chapel The fires had been smoldering at least since 2011 at separate abandoned mine sites.

One balloon partially caught fire Saturday after hitting power lines ... drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators each fall to New Mexico to see the more than 100 balloons in bright colors ...