La Plata News

An Albuquerque development company wants the city of Farmington to annex land north of Pinon Hills Boulevard where more than 560 homes are planned.

Federal officials are negotiating with tribal and local officials in southwest Colorado and New Mexico on the cost of operating and maintaining a new water storage and distribution system.

Water is beginning to flow into a new southwest Colorado reservoir that will benefit three American Indian tribes and towns in Colorado and New Mexico.

State police searching a Bloomfield residence Wednesday discovered about 1,000 chickens allegedly used for cockfighting and breeding fighters, authorities said.

Cows don't need to be branded? Very recently on my way home, northbound on the La Plata Highway, a group of 8 to 10 large black cows were roaming the highway at Mile Marker No.

The driver of Thursday's fatal SUV rollover on N.M. 574 was cited for speeding 21 mph above the speed limit just two miles ahead of the crash site, authorities said.

Four people were injured and one was killed in a one-car rollover Thursday. The accident occurred at the 2 mile marker on N.M. 574, near the La Plata Highway, at about 4:50 p.m., according to information from the San Juan County Communications Authority.

Funding for projects that protect water quality are available for San Juan County residents.

Jesse Fuller, 17, of La Plata, pretends to put numbers on the back of Aztec's Chase Scott, 18, during a pause in action at the Cody Reed Memorial Rodeo at McGee Park on Sunday.

San Juan County Sheriff's Detective Scott Facka, right, takes inventory as Heather Dostaler, of the Aztec Animal Shelter, prepares to load one hen and one rooster onto a trailer during a raid Thursday night ...

More than 100 hens also seized in 'major breeding operation' in San Juan County.

Police in San Juan County said they conducted the biggest cockfighting bust in the county's history Thursday night.

The San Juan College board of trustees elections are today. Voters are choosing representatives to fill two of the seven seats on the board.

A one-mile stretch of Pinon Hills Boulevard, the city's major northern artery, will close to through traffic for six weeks.

Diana Ohlson, owner of the Silver River Adobe Inn bed and breakfast, rides up La Plata Highway on Tuesday as part of her training for a 100-day journey from coast to coast.

San Juan County's Board of Commissioners holds its first meeting of 2009 today at 4 p.m. in the county's Administration building at 100 S. Oliver Dr.

San Juan County's Board of Commissioners appointed Jim Henderson as their new commission chairman and Ervin Chavez as his pro-tem in their first official action of 2009.

Authorities say La Plata County District Attorney Craig Westberg was injured in a mountain biking accident in Arizona last weekend.