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Several Kirtland base missions being moved to Space Force

ALBUQUERQUE â€“ The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base says some of its missions will soon come under control of the U.S. Space Force. The laboratory announc...

DATE: Apr 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Census: New Mexico response rate near bottom among states

ALBUQUERQUE – There’s more work to be done in New Mexico, where federal officials say just over one-third of households have responded to the 2020 Census. About a month into the s...

DATE: Apr 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Highlands University students to help museums go virtual

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University students are working with state officials to bring online visitors to New Mexico museums later this spring. The university announ...

DATE: Apr 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico agency: Hemorrhagic disease killing rabbits

SANTA FE – New Mexico wildlife managers say recent deaths in both wild jackrabbit and cottontail populations were the result of a hemorrhagic disease known as RHDV-2. The state Ga...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado county approves first set of oil and gas regulations

FORT COLLINS – Commissioners in a Colorado county approved regulations for new oil and gas facilities for the first time. The board of commissioners in Larimer County Board voted ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Page man arrested for urging killings of Navajo over virus

PAGE, Ariz. – Authorities in northern Arizona have arrested a man for writing a racist social media post accusing Navajo people of carrying the coronavirus and calling for their deaths. ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Worker at Colorado emergency center tests positive for virus

CENTENNIAL – A member of Colorado’s Unified Command Group at the State Emergency Operations Center in Centennial just outside Denver has tested positive for the coronavirus, officials say. ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Xcel selling Mankato plant to Southwest Generation

MINNEAPOLIS – Xcel Energy said Monday it will sell its natural gas-fired power plant in southern Minnesota to Southwest Generation for $680 million and use the money, in part, to support the...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver opening roomier shelter, hotel rooms for homeless

DENVER – Denver is opening a large, temporary homeless shelter and making about 300 hotel rooms available to homeless people who need to be isolated because of the coronavirus, moves the may...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Convicted Colorado murderer writes letter claiming innocence

CRIPPLE CREEK – A Colorado man sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of fatally beating his fiancée with a baseball bat has written a letter to a local television reporter argui...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Supreme Court upholds homicide conviction ruling

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. â€“ The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld a ruling convicting an Alamogordo man of fatally shooting his ex-wife and her boyfriend in 2015. Terrick Thompkins, 39...

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police still searching for Navajo girl who disappeared decades ago

GALLUP, N.M. – More than three decades have passed since a Navajo girl disappeared from her home in northwestern New Mexico wearing a pink nightgown. Authorities say they have not...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News