Willard News

Art Swenka, chairman and founding member of the Estancia Basin Resource Association is working closely with the State Engineer's Office to protect the Estancia Basin's water supply.

Kim Ortiz feels the weight everyday. She feels the weight of being a good mother to her daughter Jessica, 14, and son Caleb, 11, and wife to her husband of 18 years, Ernest.

Several New Mexico communities will be awarded grants from the state Environment Department to pay for the closure of landfills, groundwater monitoring wells and improvements to waste transfer stations.

The state fire marshal's office has identified a person of interest in a string of arsons around Willard in Torrance County.

Two area liquor establishments were charged with selling alcohol to minors on Saturday in a joint investigation by the Special Investigations Division of the state Department of Public Safety and local police.

Instead of leaving home and joining the circus themselves, the site crew of the High Lonesome Wind Ranch helped send a group of Mountainair kids to see the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus.

Construction of the Estancia Basin Biomass Power Project has commenced, but David Cohen, Western Water and Power Production LLC president and co-owner, doesn't expect full-blown construction to begin until late this summer.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation is looking to improve N.M. 41 between U.S. 60 near Willard to Old Route 66 in Moriarty and wants public input.

State fire marshals want to know if volunteer firefighters are behind a string of arson cases in Torrance County.