Santa Fe County News

If you want a tour of the county-owned Petroglyph Hill property in the Galisteo Basin, you'll have to take a number.

One of Santa Fe's top chefs is out of the hospital and back at work after crashing his sport-utility vehicle last weekend, but he still faces a charge of aggravated drunken driving.

Authorities say a programming error on cell phone towers misrouted 911 calls from a lost hiker who died in a rescue helicopter crash last month, but the problem has been corrected.

SF County shut 'em down , and fracking fluids are *not* nontoxic. I love this quote, repeated from industry reps: " therea s never been a link between hydraulic fracturing fluids and human illnesses." The writer should at the very least have mentioned the incident in Durango, where not only was a worker sickened and made seriously ill by the ...

A suspected drunk driver accused of striking a car carrying five Santa Fe teenagers, killing four of them, was ordered held Tuesday on $3 million cash bond.

Suspected DUI driver Scott Owens is expected to make his first court appearance in Santa Fe County Tuesday.

A wrong-way driver struck a vehicle carrying five teens on Old Las Vegas Highway early Sunday, killing four of the teens, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.

West Alameda from St. Francis to Camino Alire will be cold-milled beginning tomorrow and paved from June 30 until July 2. Agua Fria from Solano to Siler Road will be milled on June 29 until July 1 and paved beginning July 6 until July 7. Lincoln Avenue from Palace to Federal Place will be paved on June 29 to June 30.

Las Campanas, the luxury subdivision developed northwest of Santa Fe with its own water rights, would become a county water customer under a proposal being vetted by county and city officials.

A Brinks Security truck apparently lost control on southbound Interstate 25 and slid across the Rail Runner tracks, halting the commuter train and snarling traffic on the interstate Monday afternoon.

Megumi Yamamoto and her boyfriend Paul Harrington were supposed to be on a camping trip, but the two were separated.

Associated Press - June 20, 2009 3:05 PM ET SANTA FE, N.M. - A jury has convicted a 45-year-old Nambe woman of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of her mother in May 2008.

A surprise twist in the saga of a 1,300-acre property southwest of La Cienega could result in Santa Fe County buying the land.

Law enforcement officers hope two arrests this week might help bring down the number of burglaries in the Santa Fe area, which have increased recently with the temperature.

A lost hiker who was killed in a helicopter crash after her rescue last week called 911 repeatedly, but was initially routed to non-emergency lines lacking the technology to help locate her, authorities said.

New Mexico health officials confirmed Tuesday that an 83-year-old Sandoval County woman is recovering at home after being hospitalized with the plague.

A blaze left a Santa Fe County home severely damaged, and the fire was partly made worse by a water shortage.

A Japanese hiker who became lost in the northern New Mexico mountains and later died in a crash of the helicopter that rescued her called 911 seven times before being connected to an emergency dispatcher.Megumi Yamamoto, who was killed last week along with State Police pilot Sgt.

Photo: John La Bombard Sr. pats his son, John La Bombard, on the shoulder Tuesday during the younger mana TMs sentencing in District Court.

Photo: Arin Jennifer Dilallo is accused of stabbing her mother more than 20 times in the head and upper body in early May 2008.