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New Mexico reaches settlement on childcare assistance rules

SANTA FE – A judge has approved a legal settlement aimed at providing more uniform and predictable access to childcare-assistance subsidies overseen by the New Mexico Children, Youth and Fam...

Walton family to build public trails on Colorado property

COAL BASIN – The family that owns Walmart Inc. plans to construct public trails on their private land in Colorado. The Aspen Times reports that members of the Walton family e...

State Police: Village police officer kills man at house fire

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico – Authorities say an Angel Fire police officer responding to a house fire fatally shot a man who was armed with a knife. Officer Ray Wilson, a spokesman for...

Los Alamos educator named new Carlsbad superintendent

CARLSBAD, N.M. – A Los Alamos educator has been named the new superintendent of Carlsbad Municipal Schools. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports Gerry Washburn was appointed to...

7 more New Mexico counties suing opioid makers, distributors

ALBUQUERQUE – Seven more New Mexico counties have filed federal lawsuits against more than two dozen manufacturers and distributors of opioid medications. Cibola, Valencia, Catron...

Downhill I-70 into Denver is unlike any other drive – this is how big rig truckers do it

Before you’ve rolled out of bed, Jesus Torres has probably driven Loveland Pass – twice. The hazmat tanker truck driver for Dixon Bros., a Wyoming-based trucking company with offices in Denv...

Students using drone to map dinosaur tracks in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico college students are using drones to help map the location of dinosaur tracks at a state park, the latest project to use drone technology to gather data from histori...

Union Pacific investing $20M at key border station

SANTA FE – State officials say Union Pacific Railroad is undertaking a $20 million project at its Santa Teresa Intermodal Terminal and Refueling Station in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. ...

Releases of water from Navajo Dam on San Juan River planned

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. – The federal agency that oversees Navajo Dam on the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico says downstream property owners should be prepared for water releases beginnin...

Family of Boy Scout who died in Arizona says group was ‘fully prepared’

PHOENIX – The family of a 16-year-old Boy Scout who collapsed and died while on a troop hiking trip in the southern Arizona desert says he loved scouting and that he and fellow scouts and th...

Changing water flow leads to more bugs in Grand Canyon

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Ted Kennedy sums up what he sees along the river in the Grand Canyon: “It’s buggy out there.” That is to say, an experiment to change the flow of water from a d...

Experts warn bears may still come to N.M. cities

SANTA FE – Wildlife experts are warning New Mexico residents that black bears’ internal mechanisms are still operating as if the state is still under drought and may come to populated areas ...