Tramway Boulevard’s late-night drag racers have a new obstacle between them and the finish line. The city activated an automated speed camera southbound near Lomas this week, aiming a lens at one of Albuquerque’s most persistent speeding hot spots. The camera is part of a citywide push that has grown to 38 active locations since […]
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Westside drivers beware: ABQ targets ‘riskiest stretches’ with new speed cameras
Westside drivers on Coors Boulevard north of St. Joseph will soon have two more sets of eyes watching their speed. The city expects to activate northbound and southbound automated speed enforcement cameras there in early August, bringing the citywide total to 38. The additions build on a corridor the city has steadily wired for enforcement […]
Posted inSandoval County
‘Jurisdictional nightmare’ ends as Rio Rancho backs Sandoval County annexation
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper.Rio Rancho’s governing body unanimously cleared the way last week for Sandoval County to annex 7.8 acres into the Town of Bernalillo, a boundary shift that lets the county move forward with a bigger 13th Judicial District Court Complex and a relocated Bureau of Elections. City staff reviewed the request and […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Sip, vote and celebrate: Rio Rancho’s Margarita Festival arrives this weekend
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Rio Rancho has spent all summer giving residents reasons to get outside. This weekend, it hands them a margarita and asks them to vote. Friday: Nate Fox closes out July The BLOCK wraps up the month Friday with the Nate Fox Band on the Main Stage at 7 p.m. at […]
Posted inWestside Albuquerque
Westside shopping mecca celebrates 30 years
By Rodd Cayton It’s not just another birthday trip to the mall — this time, it’s the mall’s birthday. This weekend, Cottonwood Mall is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a party Friday, three decades to the day the shopping center opened its doors. On July 31, 1996, Albuquerque’s Westside finally had a regional level mall. […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections
Dems pick Garcia Richards over Pope to join Haaland on Gov./Lt. Gov. ballot
The weeks-long inter party fight to choose a lieutenant governor nominee ended just where the state Democrat Party’s gubernatorial nominee wanted it. With 477 votes cast from the party’s 500 State Central Committee members, outgoing Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard bested State Senator Harold Pope 53%-46%. The Haaland-Garcia Richard ticket will be the first all […]
Posted inCourts & Justice
Former state GOP official charged in deadly hit-and-run will remain in jail, Appeals Court rules
The New Mexico Court of Appeals denied an appeal by former New Mexico Republican Party treasurer and perennial candidate Kimberly Skaggs to be released from jail pending trial following her arrest for th the fatal hit-and-run death of a bicyclist in Doña Ana County. A district court judge had ordered Skaggs held without bail pending […]
Posted inCity Desk ABQ
One City Councilor’s plan to rid ABQ of crypto kiosks
By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — A panic-inducing phone call, an alleged arrest warrant and a frantic drive to a neighborhood gas station: For many victims, that’s how cryptocurrency ATM scams begin. Callers posing as law enforcement, government officials or utility workers pressure people to withdraw thousands of dollars in cash and feed it into […]
Posted inPlacitas
30-year mystery solved: Missing Placitas woman found buried at her own property
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. A Placitas family finally knows what happened to their mother after 30 years of wondering — and it wasn’t the story her husband told for three decades. The Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday that DNA testing has conclusively identified skeletal remains found in May as those of Ann Lombard […]
Posted inAlbuquerque
Plastic Fantastic: Take a trip inside the toy box with vinyl designer Mikee Riggs
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – For Mikee Riggs, making toys was never supposed to become a career. Fifteen years ago, he was working at GNC, sketching characters between customers and wondering what came next. “I’m not the kind of person that should work at a GNC, so I was very miserable, and I was […]