Bloomfield News

Top row from left: Anna Marie Doherty, Carly Bloomfield, Chelsea Chance, Darrah Blackwater, Eli Finch and Greg Guitierrez.

Top Story Headlines US ex-astronaut's son to be next space tourist Richard Garriott will become the first child of an American astronaut to travel to space when he takes his seat aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested Saturday for killing his brother with a shotgun after firing shots into a crowd of people during a party at a County Road 5500 residence, authorities said.

San Juan Regional Medical Center is introducing a pilot program aimed at increasing the overall health of students and staff at three local schools.

Violent crimes and property crimes went up last year in the city of Farmington, although police in Aztec, Bloomfield and rural areas of San Juan County each saw those overall crime rates drop, according to the ...

Government reps from San Juan County and its three municipalities spent Thursday making their best case for relaxed taxation regulations in the face of rising costs.

Curbside recycling in Farmington is expected to save 223,380 trees and 21,400 tons of trash from ending up in San Juan County landfills each year.

Finding a balance between the state's and San Juan County's needs is high on the Legislative Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee meeting scheduled here today and Friday.

Bloomfield foreman allegedly collected salaries for men laid off by his company.

A Dynamic Services worksheet foreman was arrested Monday, charged with stealing $100,000 from the company by forging documents and routing salaries for two laid-off employees back to himself, authorities said.

The Bloomfield Board of Education met Tuesday night to discuss bond issues, retirement plan regulations, a technology education grant and a revised school calendar.

Robert and Candice Metzler celebrated 40 years together Aug. 17. In July, the couple's daughters and their husbands threw them a surprise anniversary party at the Courtyard by Marriott in Farmington.

Hundreds of pieces of ceramic art fills 10 display tables as the Double Six Gallery opens its annual ceramics show.

San Juan County commissioners hold the first of their two scheduled September meetings at 4 p.m. today in the County Administration Building, 100 S. Oliver Drive, in Aztec.

Beginning Sept. 15 and continuing into the first week of October, the Bureau of Land Management plans to thin up to 31,000 acres of sagebrush in the checkerboard area south of Bloomfield.

A former legal secretary and her mechanic son recently made a career change that is keeping them outdoors and busy.

You can't talk to anyone in this area from "back in the day" who doesn't have a story about good times at the Country Palace or The Trough.

Experience talks when it comes to police operations, and the four candidates vying for the chance to lead the Bloomfield Police Department have more than 75 years of law enforcement experience among them.

Butch Knowlton, director of La Plata County's Office of Emergency Preparedness, said Travis Bryson, of Bloomfield, N.M., suffered a compound fracture when he rode off a 40-foot, rocky embankment.

Entire books, television shows and Web sites are dedicated to bizarre animal behaviors, but few antics are as unusual or unexpected as this one: Brandi Smith's pet goat faints.