Author - The Durango Herald
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Susan Montoya Bryan
Position: The Associated Press

Appeal: New Mexico ignored rules in approval of nuke site work

ALBUQUERQUE – A watchdog group asked the New Mexico Court of Appeals to put the brakes on a key construction project at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository. The...

Historic sign to be part of planned Route 66 visitor center

ALBUQUERQUE – The weathered old sign that once served as a beacon to travelers along a stretch of Route 66 just outside New Mexico’s largest city has been donated to a visitor center that wi...

River, stream flows drop noticeably in New Mexico

Rio Grande outlook looks to be half of average

Holy Week: New Mexico faithful find God beyond church walls

ALBUQUERQUE – While it pains him, the head of one of the oldest Catholic dioceses in the United States says this Holy Week will be different for tens of thousands of parishioners in New Mexi...

Cattle conflicts prompt killing of endangered Mexican wolves

ALBUQUERQUE – The killing of four Mexican gray wolves by U.S. wildlife officials has drawn the ire of environmentalists who say management of the species is undercutting efforts to restore t...

New Mexico regulators push ahead as virus disaster declared

ALBUQUERQUE – While federal environmental regulators have waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, New Mexico is marching ahead. ...

New Mexico regulators push ahead as virus disaster declared

ALBUQUERQUE – While federal environmental regulators have waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, New Mexico is marching ahead. ...

Endangered gray wolf population on the rise in Southwest

Count of 163 is a 25% jump over previous year

U.S. officials cite ‘balance’ as goal for Chaco oil plan

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. land managers Friday made public a list of possible alternatives for managing development in one of the nation’s oldest oil and gas basins, but environmentalists and other...

U.S. forest chief: ‘Tough choices’ to fund wildfire prevention

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Forest Service has been working with states and other partners to treat more acres every year in hopes of reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire, but Forest Chie...

Groups want cows corralled to protect jumping mouse habitat

ALBUQUERQUE – Environmentalists have accused U.S. land managers of failing to keep livestock and wild horses out of streams and other wetlands in Arizona’s White Mountains, resulting in dama...

Governor: New Mexico needs realistic, sustainable water plan

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has long talked about the importance of water to the arid state, even campaigning on the idea of creating a 50-year plan to guide managem...