Sierra County News

A centralized rural addressing office with a new employee to handle technical privacy issues is being researched for action by Lincoln County Manager Tom Stewart.

A new military museum named after a state representative who is a military wife and mother will be dedicated and opened to the public on Veterans Day.

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Junior said he's disappointed the Navajo Nation Council has placed him on administrative leave.

The Department of Health is tracking hospitalizations and deaths to determine if there is a change in the severity of the disease.

Jeanette Pruett of Radium Springs and her daughter, Angie McLaughlin, don't have direct ties to the aerospace industry.

Monday marked the first day of what residents and business owners in Truth or Consequences will experience for the next six months as big trucks rumble through town to reach Spaceport America.

The New Mexico Spaceport Authority on Wednesday backed an agreement that would establish the first of two visitors centers planned for the $200 million, state-owned spaceport.

Daniel Pena, 20, of Deming, was arrested for battery on a household member and concealing identity.

They get up early in the morning, before the sun rises in the cool New Mexico sky, hours before they head to school.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Thursday night that a female infant from Roosevelt County and a 5-year-old girl from Sandoval County have died from swine flu.

The chairman of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission is running for state land commissioner in 2010.

A third New Mexican has died of swine flu. State Department of Health spokesman Chris Minnick says the weekend death of the 21-year-old Los Alamos County woman was confirmed Tuesday as swine flu.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES... * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 400 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

San Francisco-based BP Solar International and EnergyNovo of Elephant Butte have signed a letter of intent to develop a photovoltaic solar plant in Sierra County that could generate enough energy to power about 5,000 homes.

One of the largest solar energy producers in the world hopes to grab a little New Mexico sunshine and turn it into green.

The New Mexico Spaceport Authority on Wednesday OK'd an agreement in which it will pay roughly $5.5 million for electricity infrastructure to be built at the southern Sierra County spaceport.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 330 AM MDT * AT 1231 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

A convicted felon has been reinstated as the executive assistant to the chairman of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.

Several warnings for possible serious weather conditions have been issued by the National Weather Service.

A 45-year-old woman from Sierra County died over the weekend, becoming the first person in New Mexico to die from the H1N1 Influenza Virus.