It carries local news as well as syndicated content from Associated Press and others.

Alamogordo Daily News claims 1898 as its founding date, but a case can be made for 1896.

[8] In 2015, Gannett acquired full ownership of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership.

The other incorporated area in Otero County, Cloudcroft, has its own newspaper, the Mountain Monthly, and does not get much coverage in this paper.

There are full-page sections of photos and press releases that appear once or twice a week: There are regular columns on gardening, on Alamogordo Public Schools, on Alamogordo Public Library, on animals in the Alameda Park Zoo, and on Otero County Community Health Council.

It is updated once or twice daily with breaking news stories that will appear in tomorrow's print edition.

The syndicated columnist Jay Miller from Santa Fe appears frequently with his "Inside the Capitol" column about New Mexico politics.