Silver City Daily Press and Independent

12/09/2025

Ed Stevens, who led the town of Hurley as mayor for nearly a decade, passed away Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. He was 83, and had just been reelected to another four-year term in November.

12/09/2025

The ballot layout was similar to the one used in a special mail-in election held last year in the Silver Consolidated School District, where a bond question appeared on the front side and that district’s SB9 question was printed on the back. Voters passed the bond — which increased property taxes — handily, while the SB9 question failed. Silver placed that question on November’s ballot, where it passed.

The Cobre capital improvements tax question will undergo an automatic recount, as ordered by the New Mexico State Canvass Board. As of Election Day, the question had passed with 551 votes in favor to 547 votes against. Any race that falls within 5 percent triggers an automatic recount under state la...

12/07/2025

Make sure your kids are within hugging distance before you read this weekend’s feature story by Juno Ogle about the four boys for whom Silver City’s newest park will be named:

12/04/2025

The High Desert Humane Society is holding a vaccination clinic on Saturday, Dec. 6, from 9 a.m. to noon at the animal shelter, 3050 S. Cougar Way in Silver City.

A coyote that bit a hiker in the Gila National Forest near Silver City has tested positive for rabies, according to a Thursday press release from the New Mexico Department of Health. According to the release, testing by the Department of Health’s Scientific Laboratory Division confirmed the diagno...

11/05/2025

UPDATED: Simon Wheaton-Smith will be the next mayor of the town of Silver City, having won 936 votes to 823 for Dale Lane, 490 for current District 4 Councilor Guadalupe Cano and 108 for newcomer Levi Emmett Timmons.

In the three-way contest for Silver City Town Council in District 2, incumbent Nick Prince won reelection with 318 votes to 260 for J. Andrew Housley and 121 votes cast for Eric Vreeland.
Victor Nañez will replace Cano as Silver City’s District 4 town councilor, picking up 238 votes to 220 for Jennifer Metzler Rider.

All unofficial results are in in the 2025 Consolidated Local Election in New Mexico, with school funding questions across Grant County being approved by voters, while a major street bond issue in Santa Clara was narrow. A major bond issue in the Cobre school district won approval, with 684 for and 5...

11/04/2025

Election volunteers Nevaeh Chavez and Connie Downard said that the Grant County Administration Center polling center had been busy since voting started at 7 a.m.
Polls are open until 7 tonight.

It’s Consolidated Local Election Day in New Mexico, and the Daily Press talked to election workers and voters about their Election Day experience in-person at the polls — which remain open until 7 p.m.. Election volunteers Nevaeh Chavez and Connie Downard said that the Grant County Administratio...

10/29/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Cobre School Board in the Cobre High Performing Arts Center, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Marcela Johnson.

10/28/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Silver City Town Council in District 2 at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Juno Ogle.

10/28/2025

Edit: Starting now!

We will be starting our District 2 candidate forum shortly at

10/27/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Silver City mayor at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Juno Ogle.

10/25/2025

The Silver City mayor candidates forum will be starting momentarily at

10/15/2025

UPDATE: Due to only one candidate in attendance, we are canceling tonight’s forum.

We are getting ready for the Santa Clara trustees candidate forum at the Cobre High School performing arts center auditorium. Come join us in person or at http://dailypressforums.com. br