Mountainair News

It was a soggy Fourth of July in parts of the Estancia Valley and East Mountains, which brought both good and bad.

The Cibola National Forest has opened most areas that were closed more than a year ago for rehabilitation work after fires in the Manzano Mountains.

Fireworks sales in Moriarty appear stable despite a less-than-booming economy. Moriarty, home to two year-round fireworks businesses, is seeing visitors from around the country shelling out the dough for sparklers, artillery shells, bottle rockets, firecrackers and much more.

Like a seed planted in fertile soil, the LAND/ART project in New Mexico has been germinating in isolation, waiting for the right moment to burst upon the scene in a variety of colors.

Joanie Woodruff stares down at the collage of pictures on her beloved parents' kitchen table.

Some men are fathers. But some move beyond that and become dads. The late Juan B. Gabaldon became such a dad that his remaining children all refer to him as "my dad" in a possessive, loving way that seems to forget that he was a dad to 11 children.

Area soil and water conservation districts are bringing in the green, according to Claunch-Pinto District Manager Dierdre Tarr.

Despite a lagging economy, interim budgets are balanced for the Estancia Valley and East Mountains.

One of the nation's top border collie handlers, Beverly Lambert, and her dog Mirk were a long way from home over the weekend as they competed in a United States Border Collie Handler's Association-sanctioned herding trial at the Free To Be Ranch near Mountainair.

If you are looking for a loyal, sweet, smart best friend with some of the tastiest treats in town, look no farther than your neighborhood goat farm.

Right now, roughly 10 percent of the people living in Valencia County are more than 60 years old.

Osha Fire slowed by overnight humidity as it burns near site of last year's ruinous Trigo Fire.

Fire crews from the U.S. Forest Service are scouting flames that broke out after nightfall in the Manzano Mountains west of Tajique.

Spring may start in March, but it doesn't really begin in most places until May.

Paul Sanchez, 31, watched the video of the chain of events that led up to the death of a Mountainair grandmother and her 10-year-old grandson along with everyone else packed into the Torrance County Magistrate Courtroom in Moriarty on Wednesday morning.

There is sufficient evidence against the man charged with killing two Mountainair residents while fleeing for the case to go to trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.

It's natural after a tragedy that you would search for someone to blame. It happens everywhere, and it's happening now in Mountainair with the community grieving the loss of Flora Chavez and her 10-year-old grandson, Chris Chavez.

Mountainair Chief of Police Ed Von Kuzlben is expected to be the subject of debate tonight as some residents of the community are asking the city council to dismiss him.

We've all had those times when the earth seems to be spinning a little slower on its axis.

The day after 10-year-old Chris Chavez died on a Mountainair road the victim, with his grandmother, of a hit-and-run his classmates did the best they could to honor him.