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Police: Man set home ablaze clearing cobwebs with blowtorch

BOULDER – A Colorado man was arrested after investigators say he set his mother’s house on fire while trying to get rid of cobwebs with a blowtorch. The Boulder Daily Camera reports ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico moves ahead with vaccine rollout for children

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico health officials on Wednesday applauded the federal government’s move to clear the way for COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5 to 11, saying the rollout will i...

DATE: Nov 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Agency decides against flooding Grand Canyon amid drought

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decided not to send water rushing through the Grand Canyon this month to rebuild beaches for campers and sandbars for fish because of persistent dr...

DATE: Nov 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

COVID-19 hospitalizations spike in Colorado

DENVER – Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are at their highest peak since last December, according to state data. As of Wednesday, the state had nearly 1,254 hospitalizations, with 80% m...

DATE: Nov 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sheriff: Colorado parents, 2 children dead in murder-suicide

MONUMENT – Authorities believe a man killed his wife and two of his children last weekend before killing himself in an affluent community near Colorado Springs. Yvette M. Siegert-Kreb, 50, ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man denies involvement in 1984 disappearance of Colorado girl

GREELEY – A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl has testified that he did not know the girl or her family before she va...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico looks to end waiting list for disability services

SANTA FE – Officials with the state Health and Human Services departments are awaiting federal approval to tap into a temporary funding stream to help end a 13-year wait faced by New Mexico ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. Park Service, tourism group partner to highlight tribes

ALBUQUERQUE – The National Park Service has partnered with a tourism association to ensure the contributions, cultures and traditions of Native Americans are incorporated into exhibits and p...

DATE: Oct 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ronchetti enters Republican race for governor of New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Former Albuquerque television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti on Wednesday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of New Mexico. Ronchetti said in a st...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico energizes first leg of major transmission line

ALBUQUERQUE – It’s been years in the making, and now officials say the first leg of a major renewable energy transmission line in New Mexico has been energized. The New Mexico Renewable Ene...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Mother sentenced in toddler son’s 2019 death near Shiprock

FARMINGTON – A woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for the 2019 death of her toddler son, whom she left behind after driving while intoxicated in rural northwestern New Mexico. ...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Judge: Colorado parents can’t exempt kids from school masks

DENVER – A federal judge has issued a restraining order against a suburban Denver county’s policy allowing parents to opt their children out of a mask mandate at school, finding that the rul...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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