Bernalillo County News

One of the candidates was living with a woman accused of trying to bilk $3.2 million from a Santa Fe hospital.

The chiefs of the Albuquerque and Bernalillo County fire departments say they hope to test a pilot program in July aimed at ensuring the closest unit responds to calls - regardless of jurisdictional lines.

While kids can't wait for the final school bell to ring and summer to start, it's important to keep their minds and bodies active over the vacation time, so they don't head back to school with what experts call the "summer slip" -- a loss of knowledge learned from the previous year.

Yesterday, I learned that the ABQ city shelter is currently housing almost 950 animals!A The animals there need our help.A Approximately 9,000 of these animals each year are not making it out of the ABQ city shelter alive.

ALBUQUERQUE - The former Bernalillo County jail official who took cash from inmates to let them out on the streets will not spend time locked up after a judge sentenced him to probation Friday.

Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg has agreed to suspend indefinitely the controversial, decades-long practice of presenting police shooting cases to "investigative grand juries." The Albuquerque Journal reports that Ted Baca, chief judge of the Second Judicial District Court, sent a letter to Brandenburg on Thursday indicating ... (more)

Deputies with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department say a woman jumped a fence at 2901 El Pueblo Thursday, grabbed a 4-year-old child and started to walk off with them.

Crews are on scene in the Manzano Mountains were a two acre fire is burning three miles south of Capilla Peak near Manzano Village.

ALBUQUERQUE - One person was gunned down by a suspect riding a bicycle in Albuquerque's South Valley Thursday afternoon.

Bernalillo County authorities say they expect the smoke to affect people in Albuquerque at least through Friday, as winds gradually become more southwesterly Thursday afternoon and evening.

Congressional candidate Eric Griego has been the subject of at least 11 arrest warrants for traffic violations in recent years.

The Bernalillo County Commission has approved a $16 million industrial revenue bond that will allow an Albuquerque recycling company to expand and create 35 new jobs in Albuquerque's North Valley.

A video raising new questions about County Commissioner Michael Wiener's trip to the Philippines is being denounced by his attorney.

What meth labs?, hug a librarian, In Plain Sight is outtasight and more in Tuesday's Five Things to Know Before 5. 5. Albuquerque city pools open this weekend, and one of them, the Sierra Vista pool, got an off-season upgrade that includes two twisting-turning whitewater slides.

Two new internal polls in New Mexico's 1st district illustrate how tight the battle for the Democratic nomination is with just two weeks to go.

It's about 2 o'clock in the afternoon when I get my first look at Rachel Perea walking down a sidewalk, pushing a stroller.

ALBUQUERQUE - At a time when Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston is asking for more money to hire more deputies, some people are questioning how he spends the money he already has.

Target 7 has found a disturbing trend of thieves and pimps moving their criminal enterprise from the streets to the Internet.

A budget plan up for consideration by the Bernalillo County Commission would boost the number of sheriff's deputies by about 15%. Sheriff Dan Houston tells the Albuquerque Journal that the extra 20 deputies would be the first major expansion of the force in a decade.

ALBUQUERQUE - A drunken get-away for an auto theft suspect Sunday morning ended in a crash with a semi-truck. The crash occurred on the 7700 block of Broadway Boulevard southeast.