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Property taxes now increasing with mill levy correction

How Montezuma County property owners will be affected

DATE: Jan 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Republican Party challenges New Mexico political maps

SANTA FE – The Republican Party on Friday filed a legal challenge to New Mexico’s recently approved political map that reshapes the state’s three congressional districts. The lawsuit was fil...

DATE: Jan 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

COVID cases rise in Dolores schools; elementary students required to wear masks

District saw absentee rate of 41% across its schools Jan. 14, superintendent says

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Muzzleloader pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of bow hunter in Dolores County

Case set for trial in May in Dove Creek

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

$90 million settlement reached to pay for mine cleanup near Silverton

Deal helps resolve liability issues around 2015 Gold King Mine spill

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata County Jail hit by first major COVID-19 outbreak

Forty-two suspected positive cases as of Friday

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Neighbors react to 3 deaths in Cortez home; investigation continues

Foul play suspected; family found dead in home on Tucker Court

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Rep. Lauren Boebert pays tribute to former Sheriff Duke Schirard

Congresswoman gives flag and copy of speech to his ex-wife

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez to host forum for potential consolidation of elementary schools

Consolidation could mitigate staffing, academic and behavioral issues, board says

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Native American tribe, New Mexico ink water leasing deal

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Native American tribe has agreed to lease more of its water to help address dwindling supplies in the Colorado River Basin, officials announced Thursday.

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

A flower with an unfair reputation

How do you care for the bestseller? In 1978, a plant known as P. Golden Emperor ‘Sweet’ was sold in Taiwan for $100,000. Now plants of this species have become a mass market commodity and ca...

DATE: Jan 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Freedom Anderson is free to go, on conditions of probation

27-year-old who crashed a vehicle into a house while eluding police receives two years of probation, banned from driving

DATE: Jan 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News