Grants News

In an historic, first-ever meeting Wednesday between Navajo Nation officials, including Vice President Ben Shelly, and Grants Police, both sides expressed a sincere desire to find those responsible for the beatings of several Navajo men in Grants, and to begin some sort of public education effort about race relations.

The Grants City Council wound up the fiscal year making a lot of people happy. In its regular monthly meeting, the council approved all proposed expenditures on the agenda and tabled one non-fiscal item.

The National Museum of Language is proud to announce the creation of what it believes to be the world's first International Flag of Language.

In the fall of 1982, two bodies - a male and a female - washed up on the banks of the San Juan River just west of the Carracas Bridge, at a site several miles east of Navajo Reservoir.

WESST received a $15,000 grant from The Daniels Fund, which it will use to expand a program that helps students learn good savings habits early.

THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...STRONG RUN OFF MAY STILL BE PRODUCING FLOODING ALONG INTERSTATE 40 NEAR GRANTS AND ALONG HIGHWAY 605 FROM MILAN NORTH TO HIGHWAY 509.

Local non-profit groups are usually in need of space to meet and hold events. The City of Deming is attempting to meet that need with the Morgan Hall project.

New Mexico's congressional delegation says state schools and education programs will share in $213 million in federal stimulus funding.

Go to the Index... CDL Grants Available Qualified students in the Commercial Drivers License program at San Juan College will have the benefit of free tuition, thanks to a $58,800 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Much of west-central New Mexico was without emergency 911 service, long-distance phone service and the Internet on Tuesday after a truck driver hit and damaged a fiber optic cable over a roadway.

Former and current NMSU rodeo team members hold their own at Frank DuBois Saddle Bronc and Calf Roping event New Mexico State University students and members of the rodeo team competed at the Frank DuBois Bronc Riding and Calf Roping April 4 at the Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds in Las Cruces, N.M. Olan Borg, of Camp Verde, Ariz., a former ...

The cultural and natural resources of New Mexico's Mount Taylor will now be protected by the state, ending a yearlong battle between American Indians and landowners all concerned about preserving their rights to use the mountain without interference.

Over the last several years, an established fall festival and now a newer spring festival have helped promote Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo art in the Zuni Mountains along the Ancient Way Arts Trail.

EspaA ola's Ed Corley Ford Mercury dealership has closed, a member of the Corley family said Wednesday.

Should budget constraints require a reduction in force for Deming Public Schools staff, the district will be ready.

New Mexico will receive $1.22 million in federal stimulus funds to combat domestic violence.

WORKSHOP ON GRANTS AND LOANS Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., will conduct an Economic Development and Grant Training Workshop in St.

Top Story Headlines 8 arrested at Magic Landing Park; 6 underage Swine Flu death recorded in Juarez Mexican border town fights back against kidnappings Voters defeat controversial storm water utility proposal In the May 9th election, a majority of voters voted against a controversial proposal that would have transferred storm water utility ...

A former jail administrator at the Cibola County Detention Center in Grants, N.M., was sentenced today to 97 months in prison, two years of supervised release and a $400 special assessment for violating the rights of inmates in his custody at two separate New Mexico jails.

Neal and Linden Blue , the La Jolla millionaires who own and operate General Atomics, makers of the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, have been getting a lot of good ink of late about their government-sponsored efforts to turn algae into jet fuel.