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For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people

‘Cultural burns’ are now allowed by agencies that had long banned them — a sign of evolving attitudes toward wildfire prevention

DATE: Oct 29, 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

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But anot...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Guided tour offers rare look at great house at Aztec Ruins

AZTEC (AP) – Retired archaeologist Jeff Wharton used maps to explain the size of Aztec North, an unexcavated great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument, during a guided tour of a part of t...

DATE: Oct 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Denver Zoo apologizes a decade after visitor's death

DENVER – The Denver Zoo has apologized more than a decade after a Black man died after a confrontation with police on zoo grounds. Zoo president Bert Vescolani on Friday publicly apologized ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety

NEW YORK – A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social m...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Facebook’s global outage gradually dissipating

Service restored Monday evening; Facebook pages in Durango and Cortez affected

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Why climate change is making it harder to chase fall foliage

Leaf peeping seasons have been disrupted as the planet warms

DATE: Oct 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to try SAT again after virus derails test mandate

SANTA FE — New Mexico students will take the SAT in spring 2022 as the state phases in a pandemic-delayed testing requirement aimed at increasing participation that varies widely by racial a...

DATE: Oct 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Virgin Galactic says FAA has cleared it for further flights

LOS ANGELES – Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

County jails contend with high-risk environment for COVID-19

SANTA FE — County jails across New Mexico are contending with a high-risk environment for COVID-19 infection at the same time that many more beds are being filled with inmates, an associatio...

DATE: Oct 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Farmington police: Teens had plan for school shooting attack

FARMINGTON – Farmington police say two 15-year-old students are accused of plotting to conduct a shooting attack at Farmington High School and that a third student is under investigation. A ...