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Undersheriff Arrested for Assault During Search Warrant Execution

  Española police arrested Rio Arriba County Undersheriff Martin Trujillo the afternoon of Aug. 14, after he was charged with criminal solicitation to commit...

Rio Arriba Undersheriff Arrested

   Española Police arrested Rio Arriba County Undersheriff Martin Trujillo Friday afternoon, after he was charged with criminal solicitation to commit assisting in assault...

Rio Arriba County Avoids Large Budget Cuts with Solar Deal

   Rio Arriba County’s budget for the new fiscal year avoids any major cuts to public services or employees’ hours and pay because of...

Tierra Amarilla Jail Prisoners Say Soap, Social Distancing Rare

    The picture Tierra Amarilla Detention Center Administrator Larry DeYapp painted of the COVID-19 protocols in the jail in a mid-July interview is radically...

Historic Building Burns at Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort

   A fire ravaged the spa portion of Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort and Spa the night of Aug. 6, leaving a collapsed shell...

Deputies Claim Assault, Civil Rights Violations

   At least three Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies have sent notices of tort claims to Rio Arriba County, Taos County and the City...

Two Revenue Sources Soft in E-911 Budget

    The Española/Rio Arriba County E-911 Board passed a trimmed $905,727 budget at its July 30 meeting but there were some hard questions to...

Sostenga Grows to Meet Local Food Demand

At the Northern New Mexico College Sostenga Farm, Joseluis Ortiz called his mayordomo, Vernon McCall, to ask for water from the acequia.     He showed...

Telling Stories through the Arts

   This summer, through the Power of Stories in Communities program, Santa Fe Opera teaching artists Elizabeth Kunz and Charles Gamble have been teaching...

County 4-Hers Show Animals Remotely

   Twelve-year-old Colton Hollander, from Los Alamos, trained his pig with marshmallows.     The trick paid off: the hog was named grand champion in the...

Rio Chama Water Use Limited

    Irrigators in Northern New Mexico are feeling the effects of climate change.     Manuel Trujillo, who gardens and farms in Ensenada, called this year’s...

‘Grass Race’ Cuts through Espanola

   “The Great Grass Race” swung through Española Tuesday as five teams worked their way on riding lawnmowers from Los Angeles to New York....

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