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Durango man sailing on Navajo Lake goes missing

Search operations scaled down a week after boat found unoccupied

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Carver Brewing’s chile contest finds a winner

Pueblo has won the battle, if not the war, over Hatch

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Carver Brewing Co. brings home the Pueblo-Hatch chile war

Durango brewpub will pit Colorado, New Mexico chiles head to head

DATE: Jul 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

New Mexico, Colorado get fired up over hot peppers

ALBUQUERQUE – “It’s on!” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she’s ready for a culinary duel with her neighbors to the north after the governor of Colorado proclaimed on s...

DATE: Jul 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

New Mexico ghost town saloon uses civility to draw crowd

WHITE OAKS, N.M. – A saloon in a New Mexico ghost town attracts regulars with diverse backgrounds and opinions with a promise to “have dialogue.” The No Scum Allowed Saloon in the...

DATE: Jul 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Facebook invests in renewables with Texas solar project

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Facebook is building a massive solar farm in West Texas that’s believed to be one of the largest solar projects in the nation and the social media giant’s first direct in...

DATE: Jun 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

Strong Rio Grande tourism in New Mexico expected

RIO GRANDE DEL NORTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. – Rafting and angler guides are predicting a good season for Rio Grande tourism in New Mexico thanks to strong runoff generated by a good snowmel...

DATE: May 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to market ‘green bonds’ for energy conservation

SANTA FE – New Mexico plans to issue specialized green bonds as it borrows roughly $12 million to complete efficiency and renewable energy upgrades on a fleet of state buildings in the capit...

DATE: May 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

University of New Mexico revamps film program amid demand

ALBUQUERQUE – The University of New Mexico has revamped its film and digital arts program amid the demand of film and television productions in the state. The school announced thi...

DATE: Apr 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: Uranium plumes for Bluewater Mill site ‘stable’

GRANTS, N.M. – Uranium plumes in a major aquifer in western New Mexico believed to be coming from a closed mine aren’t growing, U.S. officials said in a report released last month. ...

DATE: Apr 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Teacher salaries, school funding boosted in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Legislation to increase teacher salaries, extend instructional time at public schools and boost spending on low-income students was signed into law Wednesday by New Mexico’s Democ...

DATE: Apr 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sex-abuse trial of fugitive priest tests federal reach

SANTA FE – A Roman Catholic priest is being tried on federal charges that he sexually abused a New Mexico boy in the early 1990s at an Air Force base and veterans’ cemetery before fleeing th...

DATE: Apr 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News