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House Speaker Helps Friend Negotiate with Highway Department

    When the state Highway Department is trying to buy your land for a construction project, it may help to have one of the...

Graffiti Taggers Get Off Easy

    Española Police and the city’s graffiti officer said they are making headway in identifying repeat graffiti offenders, but lenient sentencing in the juvenile...

Special Report: Mexican Journalists Fear for Their Lives

SUN Staff Writer Jose de Wit attended the following press conference during a reporting conference he attended last month in El Paso.     Government officials...

Enhanced 911 Useless to Rio Arriba Ambulances Which Lack GPS

    In Rio Arriba County, garbage trucks are equipped with global positioning satellites (GPS) but ambulances are not.     That renders the Rio Arriba County/Española...

City Hall Turmoil

    Española City Hall is once again in turmoil.     The city lost its planning director, lobbyist and projects manager in one swoop March 11...

Semi-Truck Explodes near Ojo Caliente

    A semi-trailer truck transporting 50 bales of hay burned on Highway 285 north of Ojo Caliente for approximately an hour March 11 before...

Rio Arriba’s Run-Off Forecast Looks Better Than Most of the State

    The March water supply forecast for New Mexico shows Rio Arriba County is doing better than many other parts of the when it...

Police Blotter: Woman Calls Immigration in Revenge on Ex-Boyfriend

    Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls: Crazy Grandma Monday, March 2     •...

Proposed Salary Cuts No Laughing Matter to Public Employees

    State legislators are slashing programs left and right in a desperate attempt to balance the budget, and now they’ve hit a nerve. Under...

Police Report: Driver Goes Berserk at Car Wash, Almost Rams Pregnant Woman

    A Chimayó man was arrested Sunday for allegedly ramming a car and trying to strike three people, including a pregnant woman, with his...

Car Crash Kills Pueblo Man

    An Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo man died from injuries sustained in a car crash that occurred in La Mesilla the afternoon of March 13,...

High Court Rules Against Cook in Acequias’ Case

    The state Supreme Court refused Jan. 12 to hear Española businessman Richard Cook’s appeal of a decision that a state law allowing acequia...

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