Monument News

BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. (KRQE - Smoke rising from east side of the Jemez Mountains is from a lightning-caused fire now being handled as a prescribed burn, a National Park Service spokesperson said late Wednesday.

While planning a trip to the El Morro National Monument I noticed while looking a map of southwest USA that the National Monument is located on an ancient east-west trail in the western U.S. Desert near Ramah, New Mexico.

Bureau of Land Management officials and Cochiti Pueblo dignitaries dedicated a sculpture aimed at helping the blind enjoy the landscape at Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument.

Last year, you had to contend with gas prices that flirted with the $4-a-gallon range, and this year, you must deal with an economy in a recession.

Publisher buys 'Santa Fean' Bruce Adams, publisher of Santa Fean magazine since 2007, has purchased the publication from Southwest Media, a small corporation based in Santa Barbara, Calif.

White Sands National Monument's superintendent says he's excited about federal stimulus money coming in because the headquarters needs new windows to keep out the rain during summer monsoons and new carpet because of rains in the past.

White Sands National Monument's superintendent says he's excited about federal stimulus money coming in because the headquarters needs new windows to keep out the rain during summer monsoons.

Residents of the Pearl Valley Road area southwest of Hobbs are being told to prepare for immediate evacuations from their homes as a wildfire bears down upon them.

A few important places in New Mexico are getting a second chance at protection with the U.S. Senate's passage on Thursday of a massive public lands bill that would set aside millions of acres as protected wilderness, conservation areas and national monuments.

White Sands National Monument will host a public meeting Thursday, Feb. 5, to gain input and ideas for the park's future management.

Oil execs fear it will no longer be the most affordable energy source. An oil pump operates at sunset near Monument, N.M. Over the next 20 years or so, oil and natural gas will lose top ranking as the world's ...