You know what’s hard about going out? The timing. If a band you want to see is playing one night in town, and you get sick or lazy or are running late or if you car breaks down, you stand a good change of missing your one opportunity. You know what helps? Big, multi-day events […]
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Sandoval Signpost
Posted inSandoval County
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 […]
City Desk ABQ
Posted inCity Desk ABQ
$700 million Pajarito Mesa energy project seeks tax break under Bernalillo County’s new community benefits rules. What does it do?
By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — One of the nation’s largest energy infrastructure developers and builders wants nearly 3.5 square miles of land on the Pajarito Mesa in Bernalillo County for a solar and battery project, promising hundreds of jobs, millions in new revenue and a boost to the region’s power grid in exchange for […]
Posted inAlbuquerque
New Albuquerque Museum exhibit showcases vintage State Fair history with “Fun at the State Fair!”
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper – Long before the midway lights, green chile cheeseburgers and rodeos that now mark September in Albuquerque, New Mexicans were already gathering for the fair. The tradition stretches back to the 1880s, when New Mexico was still a territory. Now, as another State Fair approaches, the Albuquerque Museum is looking […]
The Paper. Rio Rancho
Posted inRio Rancho
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 […]
The Paper. Rio Rancho
Posted inRio Rancho
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 […]
Route 66 Independent
Posted inCourts & Justice
Tragedy in Tijeras: 1-year-old passes away following medical emergency at daycare
Route 66 Independent — A 1-year-old child died Wednesday after a medical emergency at a Tijeras daycare, prompting an investigation by the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and forcing the school to close for the rest of the week. Deputies responded around 12:11 p.m. to New Mexico Early Learning Academy in Tijeras after the child was […]
City Desk ABQ
Posted inCity Desk ABQ
Council to try to override another Keller veto in ongoing power struggle over city attorney
By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — With Monday’s Labor Day holiday pushing City Council’s meeting to Wednesday, councilors face an agenda heavy on technology alongside another fight with the mayor over who oversees the city attorney. Councilors will get another chance to take a crack at O-26-54, deciding whether to override Mayor Tim Keller’s veto […]
Posted inBernalillo County
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 […]