By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Rio Rancho’s open desert has become an unofficial and unwelcome dumping ground, and Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful is asking residents to help take it back during the group’s annual Fall Community Cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 8 to 10 a.m. Unlike past cleanups focused on parks and neighborhoods, this […]
Kevin Hendricks
Kevin Hendricks is an editor with nm.news where he oversees Sandoval County newsrooms. A native of Southeast ABQ, he reported for the ABQ Journal and Rio Rancho Observer before joining nm.news in 2024.
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Contested Rio Rancho Maverik project heads back to council: Did NMDOT’s highway tweak satisfy neighbors?
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Rio Rancho’s Governing Body decides Thursday, for the second time, whether a Maverik gas station can rise at NM 528 and Obregon Road NE — the project neighbors packed council chambers to fight in June, and that got a late-breaking access change just last week. The Governing Body voted 4-2 […]
Posted inBernalillo County
New speed cameras go live on Paseo Del Norte: What drivers need to know
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Drivers crossing the Rio Grande on Paseo Del Norte have two new sets of eyes clocking their speed. Bernalillo County activated automated speed cameras this week in the eastbound and westbound lanes near NM 423, extending a program that now covers roughly 15 locations countywide. The county’s warning period runs […]
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Sheriff details Flock shutdown, Axon switch
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen laid out, in detail Tuesday, how his office is expanding its Axon partnership to replace the Flock Safety camera network it’s dismantling. Allen said in a press release the expanded partnership builds on Axon technology BCSO already uses through body-worn cameras, digital evidence systems and […]
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Northern’s four-lane facelift is almost final — here’s your last chance to weigh in
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper Rio Rancho drivers tired of squeezing through Northern Boulevard’s current lanes will get their first look at the finished expansion design during a virtual public meeting Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 6 p.m. The city, working with the New Mexico Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, will walk residents […]
Posted inSandoval County
Locked gates, delinquent taxes: Sandoval County battles Pueblo’s 9,200-acre trust bid
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Sandoval County commissioners will decide Wednesday whether to formally object to the Pueblo of Cochiti’s bid to place more than 9,200 acres of the Cañada de Cochiti back into federal trust — reviving a jurisdictional standoff that’s included a canceled easement, a locked gate and county road crews getting arrested. […]
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Castelion’s $1B raise: New Pentagon deal means bigger missile plant near Rio Rancho
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Sandoval County’s hypersonic missile campus is about to scale up fast. Castelion Corporation closed a $1 billion funding round in August and locked in a new Pentagon production contract — both aimed squarely at Project Ranger, the company’s manufacturing site west of Rio Rancho. The Series C round — $800 […]
Posted inEnvironment, Conservation & Climate
A ‘one-time’ pulse: Why water has returned to the Rio Grande
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Albuquerque’s cracked, dry stretch of the Rio Grande got wet again Thursday, as a one-time water release made its way downriver — though the agencies behind it are clear this is a science project, not a fix. The Water Authority and a coalition of partners released roughly 2,000 acre-feet […]
Posted inBernalillo County
Remembering everyone: Ceremony offers final respect to indigent, unclaimed neighbors
By Rodd Cayton, The Paper.– The main theme of the Sept. 3 burial service at Fairview Memorial Park was that everyone matters. Robert Noblin, speaking at the Bernalillo County annual memorial ceremony described the act of remembering the community’s indigent and unconnected as a solemn and sacred purpose. “It’s a time for us as a […]
Posted inElections & Politics
Legal dead end: NM Supreme Court closes door on late ballot swaps
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday that neither Matthew Wayne Herman nor Anthony Allison will appear on the November ballot, siding with county clerks in Sandoval and San Juan counties and closing out a two-week legal fight over how late a political party can replace a candidate who drops […]