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New Mexico regulators deny utility’s exit from coal plant

SANTA FE – New Mexico regulators have denied a request by the state’s largest electric provider to divest itself from one of the Southwest’s few remaining coal-fired power plants by transfer...

DATE: Dec 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Colorado Rockies, plains pummeled by powerful wind storm

DENVER – High winds whipped across the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday, knocking out power, closing roads and highways and forcing the cancellation or delay of hundreds of flights. The Nation...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Storm knocks out power to thousands of homes on Navajo, Hopi reservations

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Residents across the Navajo Nation were without power Wednesday after a storm that packed powerful wind moved across the region. Navajo Tribal Utility Authority spokeswo...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico reports its first case of the omicron variant

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday announced the state’s first identified case of the COVID-19 omicron variant. Health officials said the case was identified Sunday an...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Trucker gets 110 years in prison for fatal Colorado pileup

GOLDEN – A truck driver who was convicted of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on Interstate 70 west of Denver was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Feds: Fentanyl is the No. 1 drug driving Albuquerque crime

ALBUQUERQUE – Authorities say fentanyl is the No. 1 drug driving crime and violence in Albuquerque. Drug Enforcement Administration said agents seized 242 pounds of fentanyl in the past fisc...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Banksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants

LONDON – Hundreds of people lined up Saturday in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy – a T-shirt created to help four defendants charged over t...

DATE: Dec 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Panther’ the cat rescued after dayslong utility pole perch

AURORA – For at least two days and maybe more, residents of a suburban Denver neighborhood worried about the fate of a black cat named Panther who was perched atop a 36-foot utility pole. P...

DATE: Dec 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Indigenous name change approved for Colorado mountain

DENVER – A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, p...

DATE: Dec 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico redistricting plans advance toward floor votes

SANTA FE – Bills that would redraw congressional and state House boundaries in New Mexico advanced toward crucial floor votes in the state Legislature. A Senate committee on Friday endorsed ...

DATE: Dec 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

University of New Mexico requiring COVID-19 booster shots

ALBUQUERQUE – The University of New Mexico is requiring all employees and students to get a COVID-19 booster shot by Jan. 17. The university said Wednesday the new requirement, which expands...