Red River News

An Albuquerque family is getting some heavy-hitting help in the search for their missing loved one.

It's been 40 years since the motion picture "Easy Rider" roared across our movie screens, turning Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson into instant stars and creating a thriving culture of freewheeling, free-spirited open-road drives on motorcycles.

Motorcyclist fatalities have more than doubled in 10 years and reached nearly 5,000 in 2006, accounting for 11 percent of total highway fatalities.

The Tourism Association of New Mexico inducted three people into the Tourism Hall of Fame at the Governor's Conference on Tourism.

Mayor David Coss, along with representatives from the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Fe Alliance, will be on hand, Coronado owner Buddy Roybal said.

Gov. Bill Richardson has appointed Craig Swagerty to lead EXPO New Mexico . Swagerty, deputy tourism secretary since 2007, replaces Judith Espinosa, who has served as director since October 2007.

Recently the small village of a few thousand, Questa, located in Northern New Mexico, has suffered from the nationa s bleak financial times.

New Mexico's state fish, the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, has returned to its namesake river.

Photo: Chevron Mining Co. employees and former employees stop outside the Red River Convention Center Wednesday after attending a mandatory meeting explaining why they were laid off.

All not directly employed by Chevron Mining let go as molybdenum prices drop 75 percent.

An upper-level storm system and an associated cold front is expected to bring another bout of winter across parts of north-central New Mexico from this afternoon into early Saturday morning, according to a ...

The last pieces of gift wrappings have been crunched into little balls, the fourth-quarter clock ticks away in the day's last college bowl game and the thoughts of a resolution or two become a serious mantra ...

Next February, the Questa school board will ask voters to approve the sale of $6 million in bonds that will be paid back in 20 years - and raise property taxes in a yet-to-be-determined amount.

The National Weather Service issued a storm watch for the next three days for parts of New Mexico which could see snow, wind gusts and rain.

I hope that you all had as fun a Thanksgiving as we did. When our friend Pam Benefiel was here from Dallas taking care of me after my surgery, she invited us to join her in her place in Red River, N.M., for ...