573 Views It wasn’t a normal scene on Tesuque Village Road yesterday. The shoulder of the usually serene country byway was packed with dozens of parked cars, on either side of Tesuque Fire Station. About two hundred people had gathered after a meeting was hastily scheduled in the past few
708 Views LAS VEGAS, N.M. – The city of Las Vegas canceled its annual 4th of July celebrations Tuesday amid ongoing water restrictions. Those restriction were put into place after this weekend’s flooding strained the city’s water treatment plant.
284 Views The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday that nonprofit rural electric cooperatives do not have complete autonomy over their rates. The decision means state utility regulators can set the rates as they see fit. The co-op at the center of the lawsuit is calling the decision “dangerous,” and wants the
290 Views The Democratic U.S. Senator sat down with KRWG to share how he is working to address housing issues, water concerns, gun violence and other issues facing the country.
451 Views The power outage due to the severe storm left 25 of its 43 water wells without power PORTALES, N.M. — City officials spoke after a severe storm caused more than half of its water wells to be without power. The storm came Tuesday night, May 28.
400 Views Jesus Baquera and others in Sunland Park and neighboring Santa Teresa have been to many public meetings since December to voice their concerns over the safety of the water that they are being provided. They said it had nearly four times the legal limit of arsenic, as well
291 Views In January, an alert citizen in Muleshoe, Tex., was driving by a park and noticed that a water tower was overflowing. Authorities soon determined the system that controlled the city’s water supply had been hacked. In two hours, tens of thousands of gallons of water had flown into the
320 Views NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico’s last winter storm left a lot of damage in the southwest part of the state and now hundreds of people are finally just getting their lights back on after going days without power. “It’s been one of the worst storms we have
295 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A proposal by PNM that could raise electricity bills is headed to the New Mexico Supreme Court. Earlier this year, the Public Regulation Commission rejected a proposed rate hike by PNM. Instead, the commission approved a smaller rate hike.
342 Views Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce U.S. Southwest.
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