New Mexico

RESERVE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's largest wildfire in recorded state history has grown to nearly 339 square miles. Fire officials said Friday that the massive blaze in the Gila National Forest scorched an additional 39 square miles in the past day...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A giant wildfire in the Gila National Forest that is already New Mexico's largest ever has grown to nearly 300 square miles. Fire officials said Thursday that the erratic blaze grew overnight to more than 190,000 acres and is spreading in all directions, as officials in the western U...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning in a mountainous southwestern New Mexico forest is close to becoming the largest fire in state history. The U.S. Forest Service said the erratic blaze in Gila National Forest had grown to about 152,000 acres by Tuesday — just 5,000 acres from breaking the state record...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A Texas man has been ordered to pay $2.7 million in restitution for burning used toilet paper that sparked a wildfire, scorching nearly 83 square miles of a national forest in New Mexico. Rodrigo Ulloa-Esquivel (u-YO'-LAH ehs-KEE-VEEL), of El Paso, also was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation...

DENVER (AP) — Warm, windy weather is raising the fire danger in the Mountain West Red flag warnings were in effect Thursday for much of western Colorado and the San Luis Valley as well as parts of Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico...