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ALBUQUERQUE – Drought is stiffening its hold across the American Southwest as extreme conditions spread from Oklahoma to Utah. The federal drought map released Thursday shows dry conditions...
DATE: April 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Cortez Sanitation District has approved the installation of solar panels at its sewer lift stations to save on energy costs. During a special meeting on March 27, the district’s board of...
DATE: April 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – Surveys show the lower Red River has healthy fish populations after the reintroduction of otters, contrary to concerns from trout advocates, a New Mexico wildlife official said. River...
DATE: April 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
GLENWOOD SPRINGS (AP) – After a long and successful career up on the saddle training horses and their owners across the country, John Lyons wanted nothing more than to retire, ride off into the...
DATE: April 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will host a talk about the 1917-18 flu epidemic at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. Charles DiFerdinando, a fifth...
DATE: April 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The National Weather Service will offer two free storm-spotter training classes to anyone interested in learning about severe weather. Classes are about two hours long. In Durango, an optional...
DATE: April 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Below Durango, the Animas River offers nearly 40 miles of runnable river for boaters, which passes through a pastoral landscape as the San Juan Mountains give way to the high desert terrain of...
DATE: April 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – When someone asks Candy Spence-Ezzell, who represents District 58 in the New Mexico Legislature, where she grew up, her answer is typically “west of L.A.” If your first thought...
DATE: April 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Crews are drilling at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to test the idea of shifting the area where water is drawn to serve millions of people at the national park’s popular South...
DATE: April 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
By all historical accounts, there is no “River of Lost Souls” running through Durango. So how is it that over the years that’s become the adopted, dramatized name of the Animas River? “It’s just...
DATE: April 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FORT COLLINS (AP) – There is life after death for Colorado’s forests. But to get there, the people who manage them must solve an economic quandary. Colorado’s 834 million dead trees can start anew...
DATE: March 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – Drought is tightening its grip across a wide swath of the American Southwest as farmers, ranchers and water managers throughout the region brace for what’s expected to be more warm...
DATE: March 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News
