Navajo Dam News

The Navajo water rights settlement also does not allow irrigation water to be taken from the pipeline.

This month researchers will begin pumping carbon dioxide deep into the ground in a test that could yield a valuable new method for keeping the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere while also increasing methane ...

Cole Blancett, son of long-time San Juan County, N.M., rancher Len Blancett, walks toward a pond he says has been contaminated by runoff from an evaporation pond for salty gas-well water on Bureau of Land ...

Close look at $4.6 million loss shows warning signs were there BCDS liabilities JP Morgan Chase Bank $2,200,000 North Carolina vendor $200,000 North Carolina vendor $1,614,266 Various BCDS Vendors $465,439 ...

Today's the day the Animas River tells the people who monitor its flow each spring to "start preparing." "When it hits 7,000 cubic feet per second it's not flood stage, but it's time to start watching," said ...

“The next chance of snow is a small chance of snow showers Wednesday and Wednesday night”

With his three-year-old son, Hunter, on his back, Adam Coleman surfs down a hill on his belly at Hermosa Middle School during a snow storm Monday afternoon. via Farmington Daily Times

The attorney general's Animal Cruelty Task Force staged at least is second cockfighting raid this weekend, but those busted claim they are on tribal land and don't have to follow the state law. via KRQE

World, nation and state react to Bhutto's death PAKISTAN - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated this morning; she was shot in the head, neck and chest after she spoke at a political rally ... via KRQE

Today is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and thousands of people in our area are heading out to take advantage of the sales. via KRQE

“We don't have the heavy equipment that's needed to do the job”

Ten years ago Dennis Joaquim and Ana Padilla collected signatures urging the state's transportation department to take action to make New Mexico 173 -- the most direct route to their community -- a safer road. via Farmington Daily Times

“People come from around the world to fish there for rainbow and brown trout”

A bulldozer and a track hoe will complete work this week on a project to improve a world-class fishery on the San Juan River below Navajo Dam. via Durango Herald

“There's no question there's a market for additional power out of the Four Corners. There's no question that there's coal. Clean air is an issue”

Though an economic feasibility analysis for a proposed coal-fired plant on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation was conducted in February 2004, it wasn't because the tribe wanted to build a plant, so much as it ... via Gallup Independent

“It's the project of the decade”

A new water reservoir took a big step closer to reality Tuesday as the Aztec City Commission advanced a resolution to take out a $3 million loan. via Daily Times

“The victim is not wanting to testify”

Wendel Nix, the part-time youth pastor accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old church member, may be eligible for release without bond after the victim requested the charges be dropped. via Daily Times