New Mexico Tourism Dept.’s Destination Forward program provides grant to El Zócalo Plaza in Bernalillo, NM.
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Commission Approves $275 Million Bond to Build Solar Plan
Construction of a Sandoval County solar power generation plant from which PNM will buy power to provide to the Meta data center in Los Lunas received unanimous approval from the Sandoval County Commission on Wednesday (Oct. 25). The commission authorized the issuance of $275 million in Industrial Revenue Bonds to build the NMRD IV Project […]
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Game Commission Approves New Cougar and Bear Limits
The New Mexico Game Commission unanimously approved new cougar and bear limits on how many can be killed by hunters during Friday meeting.
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Will New Mexico Get a Wet Winter? Signs Point to…
This week brought trick or treaters and the first sub-freezing temps to central New Mexico. Those freezing temps came earlier than normal, according to the National Weather Service’s almanac of fall freeze dates. So does that mean more cold (and maybe snowy?) weather is on the way? It depends where in New Mexico your winter […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Placitas
Decades of Work Near Long-term End to Placitas Mining Threat
It was the mid-1990s when Las Placitas Association President Carol Parker began scouting for a leader to take over nudging the feds into protecting thousands of acres of public land from mineral mining and oil drilling. Twenty-five years later, all those nudges from agencies and Congress backed by local persistence, numerous allies, and an alliance […]
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New Mexico Pulls Plug on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force
This story originally appeared in New Mexico In Depth, a non-profit newsroom covering New Mexico issues. It is republished here with permission as a part of our commitment to bring our readers the best in independent local news, even if we did not write it. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration has quietly ended a state […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Politics & Elections, Sandoval County
Incumbents Keep Seats on MRGCD Board
All three incumbents retained their seats on the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board of directors, including chairwoman Stephanie Russo Baca, following an election on Oct. 3. Russo Baca, a staff attorney for the Utton Transboundry Resource Center at the University of New Mexico and resident of Los Chavez, earned 1184 votes (56%) to defeat […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Sandoval County
Police: New Jersey Man Missing, Phone Pinged in Sandoval County
The Summit Police Department in New Jersey has been searching for Brandon Gomes, 24, since October 1 and is asking for assistance from the Albuquerque Police Department and Sandoval County Sheriff’s office to locate him. Police say Gomes left his Summit, New Jersey, home Oct. 2 in his mother’s car and sent a message to […]
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Sandoval County Partners With BernCo To Modernize I-40 Corridor
The federal government named a stretch of Interstate 40 in central New Mexico a part of the supply chain system for clean energy logistics industrial hubs. The designation as a Regional Infrastructure Accelerator will include seed funding of $974,000 for planning. The designation includes a coalition of partners including Bernalillo County, Sandoval County and the […]
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Bernalillo Advances Road Project, Honors Ninja Warrior
The Bernalillo Old Highway 44 project, initially tripled in cost, is progressing with separate road and culvert work, while local champion climber Katie Bone is eyeing the 2028 Olympics after an injury.