Cirque fans will get the opportunity to watch the acrobatics of the newest show to come out of the international juggernaut franchise. Cirque du Soleil:Crystal is in Rio Rancho, is planning multiple shows through March 10 at the Rio Rancho Events Center. Each new show often travels through Rio Rancho because organizers cluster events in […]
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Posted inOpinion, Westside Albuquerque
Former Dem. Manny Gonzales III couldn’t win GOP support for US Senate. A month later, he’s already running for a different GOP office.
Commentary by Pat Davis, City Desk The website mannyforsenate.com still promotes Manny Gonzales III’s one-month campaign as a Republican candidate for US Senate in Washington D.C. The campaign Facebook page he used last month to announce his failure to qualify for that race still bears the URL ending in “MannyforABQ,” an apparent holdover from his […]
Posted inFederal Government & Congress
Next year’s APS budget includes more money for special education, less money for food
Albuquerque Public Schools will have less money to work with next fiscal year, but it is working on ways to lessen the disruption in services, budget officials told the Board of Education Wednesday evening. District officials have said the budget will drop from $2.167 billion for the current fiscal year to about $1.9 billion for […]
Posted inFederal Government & Congress, Housing & Homelessness
Roadrunner CEO: ‘Food insecurity can strike anyone’
Roadrunner by the numbers: Dana Yost was named the president and CEO of Albuquerque-based Roadrunner Food Bank in August 2023. He comes to the city from Tucson, Arizona — a state where he worked in the food bank industry for 13 years. In just a handful of months at the helm, Yost said he’s noticed […]
Posted inFederal Government & Congress, New Mexico Statewide News
NM ranks dead last in education. Will 180 days in the classroom help?
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has adopted a new rule mandating that school calendars consist of at least 180 days, with top state officials saying Thursday that the goal is to get students more learning time in the classroom and improve academic outcomes. Public Education Secretary Arsenio Romero […]
Posted inCourts & Justice, New Mexico Statewide News
AG gets funding for proposed missing and murdered Indigenous people task force
Attorney General Raúl Torrez will have $200,000 at his disposal to create a new task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham kept the funding allocated by lawmakers in the $10.2 billion state budget she approved today. It will be available in the next fiscal […]
Posted inCourts & Justice
Nine yrs. later, BCSO returns suspect to ABQ from Mexico to stand trial for murder
On Christmas Eve in 2014, a family member returning home from church found Idali Reyes’ body dead in her South Valley home. Two suspects were arrested shortly thereafter but a third, Jesus Alberto Chacon Morales, was never located. But that all changed Wednesday afternoon when the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department announced that Chacon Morales had […]
Posted inLocal Government
Commissioners make no decisions on Mountain View neighborhood development plans
Bernalillo County Commissioners discussed how to get a handle on the future of the Mountain View Neighborhood area, accepted close to $1 million to keep the national supply chain moving and approved an agreement to upgrade the call buttons in cells at the Metropolitan Detention Center during their regular meeting held Tuesday, March 5. Getting […]
Posted inCourts & Justice, New Mexico Statewide News
Jury convicts movie armorer of involuntary manslaughter in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in […]
Posted inCourts & Justice, New Mexico Statewide News
Defendants in terrorism and kidnapping case sentenced in New Mexico
A U.S. judge handed down sentences Wednesday for five defendants in a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that stemmed from the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia in late 2017 that ended months later with a raid on a squalid compound in northern New Mexico. Jany Leveille, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, his sisters […]
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