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No changes for San Juan Generating Station with Trump order

ALBUQUERQUE – Part of a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is still scheduled for retirement despite President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday to roll back measures aim...

DATE: Mar 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

She thought someone passed out drunk

ALBUQUERQUE – What sounded like someone knocking on a window late one night turned out to be gunfire erupting in a small community on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. ...

DATE: Mar 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fallen Navajo officer called fearless, hilarious at service

Since he was a young boy, Houston James Largo had dreams of one day wearing a uniform and a badge and helping communities on the nation’s largest Native American reservation, where he grew u...

DATE: Mar 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Case closed: Death of treasure hunter remains a mystery

ALBUQUERQUE – The case of a man who moved to the American West to search for $2 million in hidden treasure but turned up dead in New Mexico’s backcountry was officially closed after authorit...

DATE: Mar 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Chile pepper license plate for New Mexicans? It’s a hot idea

Legislative panel backs proposal

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Feds: Mexican gray wolves see increase in wild population

ALBUQUERQUE – There are now more Mexican gray wolves roaming the American Southwest than at any time since the federal government began trying to reintroduce the predators nearly two decades...

DATE: Feb 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Feds seek to dismiss New Mexico’s claims over Gold King Mine spill

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Attorneys with the U.S. Justice Department are asking a federal judge to dismiss claims by New Mexico and the Navajo Nation that stem from the 2015 Gold King Mine waste ...

DATE: Feb 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ancient Chaco Canyon inhabitants relied on imported food

Dry, salty conditions prevented agriculture

DATE: Jan 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Protection sought for New Mexico park’s geothermal deposits

Park includes remnants of one of North America’s few super volcanoes

DATE: Jan 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Boy Scouts to relocate national museum to New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – From merit badges and uniforms to an impressive collection of Norman Rockwell paintings and drawings, the Boy Scouts of America will be packing up more than a century of scouti...

DATE: Dec 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Feds to pour $225M into water projects around the West

ALBUQUERQUE – The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects aimed at tackling the effects of drought in the West and restoring watershed...

DATE: Dec 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque police shooting case to get review

Incoming prosecutor to seek inependent probe

DATE: Dec 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News