Federal land managers sought to uphold public land leases sold to oil and gas companies for drilling in the Carlsbad area amid a lawsuit filed by a local environmental group who wants the sale ...

A federal grand jury has charged five men in connection with an alleged scheme to steal crude from New Mexico oil fields and sell it from a yard in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Thousands of acres of public land in southeast New Mexico were dropped from an oil and gas lease auction scheduled in June after the lands were found to be in sensitive geological areas near two ...