Thousands of people told to flee the largest wildfire burning in the United States have chosen to stay and defend generational homes in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

An elderly couple died in their home as they tried to evacuate a wildfire in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

US authorities are still investigating claims made by a man charged in a New Jersey slaying who has said he killed a total of 16 people in multiple states.

An obelisk in the US state of New Mexico was torn down by activists marking 'Indigenous Peoples Day', a spot traditionally taken up by Columbus Day in the calendar.

Boeing Co's Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a "bull's-eye" landing in the New Mexico desert on a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station.

Hundreds of colorful hot air balloons in different shapes and sizes have filled the sky in the US state of New Mexico.

At least four people were killed in New Mexico on Thursday, August 30, after a Greyhound passenger bus collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck that jumped a highway median strip, and the death toll was expected to rise, the New Mexico State Police said.