Bills part of public lands package will designate wilderness within New Mexico’s Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Río Grande del Norte national monuments ALBUQUERQUE, NM (February 12, 2019) – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47), a public lands package that includes measures to protect Wilderness…
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Mora, NM – On February 13, 2019 around 9:31 p.m., New Mexico State Police Uniformed Officers in Las Vegas were called to a residence on State Road 518 for a twenty-eight-year-old male who had been shot. State Police officers and EMS arrived and began giving aid to the victim who…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton City Commissioners met with RPS board members Tuesday evening, February 12th for a special joint meeting before moving on to the regular city commission meeting. In the special joint meeting RPS board members and Commissioners approved an assignment of an agreement with Guzman Energy…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media No, it’s not about that Energizer Bunny, but it is about keeping the energy flowing by using alternative energy sources as a small grass roots effort begins to move forward promoting alternative energy for Raton. Geoff Peterson began the meeting at the Center for…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The New Mexico Legislative session is now 1/3 of the way through or 20 days in to the 60-day session with over 470 house bills and over 460 senate bills introduced by law makers. Several of the bills deal with tax changes including income…
Donavin Myles Mendez, a graduating senior at Raton High School, has been named one of 4,500 candidates in the 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year 2019. Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars…
Single Vehicle Fatal Crash on NM Highway 120 in Mora County Mora County, NM – New Mexico State Police investigated a one vehicle fatal crash on NM Highway 120 near mile post 46, east of Wagon Mound, NM on Monday, January 28, 2019 at about 3:29 p.m. The initial investigation indicated…
ICE FISHING TOURNAMENT AT EAGLE NEST LAKE VERY SUCCESSFUL! On the morning of January 26, participants from as close as Eagle Nest and as far away as Minnesota braved the cold morning low temperature of 5 degrees at Eagle Nest Lake to fish in the Annual Ice Fishing Tournament. It…
With the enactment of the continuing government operations resolution, staff at Capulin Volcano National Monument will begin adjusted operations on January 28, 2019. Due to a shortage in staffing, operating hours will be 8:30am-4:30pm Thursdays-Mondays. The monument will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays until positions can be refilled. Currently staff…
Raton, NM – Sugarite Canyon State Park will open to ice fishing on Friday, January 25, 2019. Recent cold weather has increased the lakes’ ice depths to minimum standards, New Mexico State Parks officials announced. State officials remind you that you take a risk anytime you go out onto the…