Rio Arriba County News

A stray dog named Sioux who had a knack for winning people over and was about to serve as a companion dog for a Vietnam vet was killed Friday for no apparent reason.

As of Jan. 1, Ruidoso will shoot to the top of the charts for city-imposed gross receipts taxes, according to a information posted on the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department Web site.

Keven J. Groenewold, general manager of the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, acknowledges that rural cooperatives have been attacked by environmentalists for not supporting renewable energy, but he believes whatever is done with renewable energy has to be affordable, reliable and available.

Northern New Mexico College is rethinking plans for more than $1 million in construction at its El Rito campus in Rio Arriba County after complaints about a decision to cut down 16 mature trees.

The number of civil cases in the 1st Judicial District has been rising during the last year and a half, while the number of criminal cases has been dropping.

In keeping with the nation's efforts to seek additional funds for broadband stimulus, a New Mexico organization announced a recent attempt to accrue financing for broadband services in its area.

Police seek driver in bus accident State police said they are looking for a driver who forced a school bus off a narrow road near Cordova on Monday morning, causing minor injuries to nine students.

Authorities say about a dozen children were treated for cuts and bruises after their school bus rolled off an embankment on the side of a one-lane road in northern New Mexico.

Authorities say about a dozen school children were treated for cuts and bruises after the school bus they were riding in rolled off an embankment on the side of a one-lane road in northern New Mexico.

USSchool Bus Rolls,0110 School bus rolls off northern NM road Eds: APNewsNow. CHIMAYO, N.M. Authorities say about a dozen children were treated for cuts and bruises after their school bus rolled off an embankment on the side of a one-lane road in northern New Mexico.

Authorities released the names of the Espanola family injured Saturday in, what police say, is an alcohol related single vehicle rollover in Rio Arriba County.

Photo: From left, Nils Erickson, Meredith Pridgen, Ava Moser, 9, Kirstie Moser, AJ Kessel and Celia Moser, 6, ride the chairlift down from the Santa Fe Ski Basin.

Browne to replace Kristofferson in concert Singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson is bowing out of a concert scheduled for the Lensic Performing Arts Center next week.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Thursday that a 22-year-old man from Rio Arriba County is hospitalized at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.

Embezzlement charges could soon come down against a Jemez Mountain school district administrator.

A New Mexico man was behind bars Tuesday for driving while drunk and it's his 22nd citation.

The New Mexico Judicial Nominating Commission will begin accepting applications to fill the 1st Judicial District judgeship being vacated by Jim Hall but will wait for a formal resignation from state District Judge Daniel Sanchez before beginning the process to fill Sanchez's seat.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced today a 45-year-old man from Dona Ana County died from West Nile virus infection.

State investigators now believe the former business manager of a small New Mexico school system stole more than $3.3 million from her district since 2001, sources have told KRQE News 13.

A BLACK BEAR IN ESPANOLA TOUCHES OFF AN ODD SERIES OF EVENTS LEADING TO AN ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER BEING ARRESTED... ACCUSED OF BATTERING AN UNDERAGE GIRL.