By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. A quarter-century after the Sept. 11 attacks, Rio Rancho residents can pause and remember together this Friday evening at Vista Verde Memorial Park. Daniels Family Funerals and Vista Verde Memorial Park are hosting a “Never Forget Memorial Service” at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the memorial park. The gathering […]
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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Pooch plunges, country icons & comedy legends: Your Rio Rancho weekend guide
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. The 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 arrives Friday, and Rio Rancho marks it before the rest of the weekend begins. Then Sandoval County gets busy — with a beloved canine tradition, a free mayoral cookout, a gallery opening, a 30-year road race and a walk through some of Placitas’ most […]
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Project Ranger named NM’s top collaborative economic development project
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Project Ranger, Castelion’s hypersonic missile manufacturing campus in Sandoval County, was named 2026 Collaborative Impact Project of the Year at the New Mexico IDEA Economic Development Excellence Awards, held during the Governor’s Conference on Economic Development at Isleta Resort & Casino last week. The award recognizes the 1,000-acre campus as […]
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Desert dumping ground no more: KRRB rallies cleanup crews for Sept. 26
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]