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Mancos Creative District names new director

MANCOS — The Mancos Creative District has announced that Katie McClure has been selected as its new executive director. McClure comes from a community-centered health and wellness background...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Farmington exhibition focuses on birth of energy industry

First well drilled in 1921, but city’s population skyrocketed with second boom in 1950s

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico clears way for hospitals to ration care if needed

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico on Monday cleared the way for hospitals to ration care if necessary, saying the state’s health care system has yet to see a reprieve as the nursing shortage continue...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico needs to dedicate money to more conservation projects, groups say

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – The Land of Enchantment is home to vast forests and deserts, meandering rivers and streams and a variety of wildlife. Now a coalition of outdoor recreation and conservatio...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Local and statewide issues on Nov. 2 ballot

Local questions include Cortez and Dolores school boards, and Mancos Fire Protection District

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Apple orchard owners battle frost, hail and insects during first year of ownership

La Plata County family learned lessons, is focused on successes

DATE: Oct 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business

Valles Caldera volunteers in race to document dendroglyphs

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – The haunting calls of bugling bull elk pervade the autumn air, echoing across the grass valleys and forested lava domes of Valles Caldera National Preserve as a cadre...

DATE: Oct 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Trump allies converge on Denver as key defendant defies judge in Eric Coomer’s defamation lawsuit

Lawyers for Dominion Voting System’s Eric Coomer called Joe Oltmann’s claims that Coomer said he would rig the election ‘a calculated falsehood’

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico explores public financing for cannabis businesses

SANTA FE – Small-scale marijuana businesses in New Mexico would receive access to publicly financed loans of up to $250,000 in an effort to promote social and economic fairness, under a prop...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico