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The daughter of a deceased Tucumcari city commissioner has filed suit against her sister and her father’s estate, alleging she suffered debilitating injuries during an apparent spat in her dying...

The president of Mesalands Community College said last week if he can’t get higher vaccination rates in the student population, he’s resigned to an eventual COVID-19 super-spreader event after...

These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center from July 16 to July 25: • Alexis Diorio, 25, Williamsburg, probation violation, distribution of a controlled substance,...

The city of Tucumcari will uphold its part of the joint powers agreement that provides emergency communications service to Quay County and parts of Harding County. Under the agreement, city pays 45%... Full story

These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from July 12 to July 25: July 12 • 9:48 a.m.: Property damage in 1500 block of South Rock Island Street,...

Logan Municipal Schools superintendent Dennis Roch last week was named 2021 New Mexico Superintendent of the Year by his peers. The award was presented during the annual conference of the New Mexico...

The contracted director of senior citizen centers in Tucumcari and Logan stayed cautiously optimistic those facilities will reopen for meals Monday morning after being closed for almost 18 months... Full story

Quay County recently gained a new member of the state’s leadership team, as a 4-H ambassador. Jenna Lopez of the Wranglers 4-H Club will help plan and host several 4-H events for novice, juniors... Full story

There seems to be an element of the blind leading the blind in how state and local governments will regulate legalized recreational marijuana when the state starts issuing licenses to cannabis-based...

New Mexico lawmakers, in the words of Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, “have got ourselves in a really tough predicament.” Richard Anklam, executive director of the nonpartisan...

No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. The book, titled “Forget the...

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