San Juan News

Longtime community advocate, Hank Hughes, is running to bring renewable energy alternatives to New Mexico and integrity back to the PRC .

The San Juan Center for Independence helps the disabled live by themselves and care for their activities of daily living.

Officials are warning motorists to buckle up, slow down and drive carefully as the second snowfall of the year hit the region Monday.

Ordinance enforcement is carried by the Land Use Department. Inspectors will be out and about citing businesses and residences whose signs are out of compliance with the Sign Ordinance.

Typically, shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters or matches start tree fires.

The Rancho de San Juan inn is renaming its restaurant to Three Forks in a move to give the eatery its own identity.

Nov. 30--Eight restaurants and nine lodgings have achieved Four Diamond Award status, AAA New Mexico says.

Cond Nast Traveler magazine readers have ranked three New Mexico lodging destinations among the top resorts and hotels in the U.S. The results of its annual "Best in the World" Readers Choice Awards appears in the November edition, now out on the stands.

The New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee will meet for two days -- November 2nd and 3rd -- in Room 307 at the State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ALONG THE RIO PUEBLO DE TAOS, N.M. - The sun had barely peaked over the Taos Mountains.

What if a fire erupted in the San Juan coal mine, trapping miners and setting into motion evacuation and rescue efforts that required diligent focus and teamwork? BHP Billiton employees participated Wednesday in a mock exercise to train for the possibility of a disastrous mining accident at the company's underground mine near Waterflow.

Note: The trusty reporters at NMI are liveblogging from today's Special Session.

So many people are worried about H1N1 flu in Santa Fe County that doctors are running out of the regular seasonal flu vaccine.One mobile clinic reported giving about 1,500 vaccinations in a two month period last year.

A New Mexico man is without part of his thumb after a fight turned ugly over the weekend.

The approved agreement also allows the City to keep the remainder of its 2009 San Juan-Chama water in Heron Reservoir through the end of September 2010.

Two new wineries made their debut Saturday at the 2009 Harvest Wine Festival - the Rio Grande Vineyards and Dos Viejos - spreading out crowds projected to swell by 3,000 people compared to last year, event organizer Dawn Starostka said.

The old license plate had seen plenty during its ride on a '29 Ford truck. By Albert A. Henderson In March of 1984 I purchased a New Mexico license plate at a flea market.

There has been no rain here and across the Southwest for months now. It is not just the people who have thirsted for the July monsoon showers that didn't come this year, but also the pockets of sage bushes and juniper trees that dot the red rocky mountains.

A new director for the San Juan County Communications Authority hopes to increase recruitment and streamline the training process for dispatchers.

Twenty years after Farmington resident Thelma Kline was found dead, police arrested her suspected killer.