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The Magdalena Village Board of Trustees at its Jan. 11 meeting voted to submit an application for a federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant for a new ambulance.
Every spring the Socorro Electric Cooperative, Inc. holds its annual meeting to do business that will affect every member for the coming year. If your name is on your electric bill you are a member of the co-op, and Anne Dorough, District 6 Trustee and Chair of SEC's Board of Directors, enco…
It was like the sun rose twice.
The Trinity Site Open House scheduled for April 3, 2021, at White Sands Missile Range has been cancelled due to health concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Items taken from officer reports at the Sheriff's office
After starting with the Performing Art Series at New Mexico Tech as a volunteer in 2000, Dana Chavez has now done almost every job the series has to offer. Over the years she has put on various events and her role got even bigger this year when everything had to be revamped to do over Zoom. …
New Mexico has lost a dedicated newspaperman, father and community servant.
Over the weekend, Socorro County hit the 1,000 total coronavirus cases mark and has since gone up to 1,011 with three cases on Tuesday. While the number of cases has been less than 10 per day the past week, the virus is still prevalent.
The 55th New Mexico Legislature is set to convene on January 19 to run through March 20. Two lawmakers representing Socorro County's interests, 49th District Representative Gail Armstrong and 28th District Senator Siah Correa Hemphill, have already been preparing for an unconventional - prom…
El Defensor Chieftain welcomes Caitie Ihrig as its new editor.
The red planet Mars will continue to dominate the early evening sky while being almost directly overhead at sunset. As the distance between Earth and Mars increases it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern Mars’ surface features, even with moderate-sized telescopes. Nevertheless, Mar…
Some things remain constant: New semester. New schedule. New challenges. The need to get away from it all after a hectic first week.
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Effectively immediately, the New Mexico Department of Health will no longer issue letters to employees to present to their employers in order to leave or return to work after testing positive for COVID-19.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Department of Health has reported 63 new cases of coronavirus on the vast reservation with three more deaths.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials will be looking for public comment as they prepare to update a rule that guides management of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.), announced that an estimated 1,793 New Mexico health care providers will receive more than $169,486,132 to …
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RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese in New Mexico announced Wednesday it will reopen churches and allow a small number of people to attend public celebrations of Mass in what could be the first move to alter a diocese-declared ban on public services in the U.S.
