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If the Ruidoso Downs horse racing meet continues at a different state track, the 2025 All American Futurity is in play to happen.

Survivors of the Ruidoso, New Mexico flash flood recount the horrors of the events that left three people dead and a ...

The mountain town of Ruidoso must rebuild again following a record-breaking flood and a year after devastating wildfires.

Watch the terrifying moment a New Mexico home was swept away in raging floodwaters on July 8. Several people died in the ...

Tuesday’s flood did major damage to track and overwhelmed improvements made to the track’s culvert and ditch system.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is holding a news conference Thursday morning to give an update on Ruidoso flood ...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will hold a news conference on Thursday morning, July 10, to deliver an update on statewide flood ...

The popular summer retreat is no stranger to tragedy. It has spent a year rebuilding following destructive wildfires last ...

El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson expressed condolences following the Tuesday, July 8, flash flood in Ruidoso that killed three ...