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The director of Mesalands Community College’s wind-energy center outlined efforts to add to the college’s drone and alternative-energy education curriculum, including adding 700 solar panels to it...

Tucumcari Public Schools superintendent said last week required surveillance testing of COVID-19 of all school employees would double when classes resume next month after winter break. Superintendent...

Most Americans would agree this has been one of the most, if not THE most stressful year for our country and possibly the entire world. The ongoing political strife worsened this year due to the...

The Environmental Improvement Board, the rule-making body of the New Mexico Environment Department, on Friday approved an amendment to workplace safety law requiring employers to report COVID-19...

On this date ... 1970: Rex Martin, a patient at Van Ark Nursing Home in Tucumcari, in a photograph shows a Christmas card he received in the mail from President Richard Nixon. • The Tucumcari City...

Note: Events subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Dec. 31 — 2020 Must Die Livestream Bonfire. The Roadrunner Lodge Motel is burning memories of 2020 during a livestream event on...

The Tucumcari Senior Center and Logan Senior Center remain closed to the public indefinitely but will deliver meals to those who qualify. Those interested in meal deliveries should call the Tucumcari...

The state of New Mexico on Wednesday amended its emergency public health order to accommodate slightly increased capacity inside essential retail spaces. The changes in the graduated green-to-red...

Yes, we’re all tired. Tired of the isolation, the restrictions, the lines, the shortages, the rude people and the ignorant ones who don’t understand safety practices, the cumbersome way we must...

Merry Christmas. The year is almost over. President Trump will soon be free to watch right-wing TV and overload Twitter without the burden of responsibility. The best thing he will leave us with, howe...

With a pandemic bearing down, Christmas is a bit subdued this year. That makes it a good year to curl up in bed with a Christmas book or plop down on your couch for a magical Christmas movie. I must a...

The New Mexico Department of Health last week reported the sixth coronavirus death in Quay County since the pandemic began. Meanwhile, the volume of COVID-19 cases was falling in the state and the cou...

As expected, Quay County stayed in the red zone during the latest county-by-county COVID-19 risk evaluations announced Wednesday by the state. The next evaluation is Dec. 30. Quay County wasn’t...

Two wastewater projects received action Thursday from the Tucumcari City Commission, along with agreements for monitoring the city’s old and current landfills. The commission also approved a change...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Saturday the appointment of Julie J. Vargas to the New Mexico Supreme Court, closing the vacancy left by the Justice Judith K. Nakamura, who retired. The...

More than half of Logan’s middle-school students were considered low-growth academically in assessment tests during a period from December 2019 to December 2020, illustrating the challenges of...

Students at San Jon High School earlier this month were among the winners of the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge for the second straight year. San Jon juniors Saisravya Bandla and Jenna Lopez,...

The Mesalands Community College board of trustees last week approved an annual auditor’s report that refutes some allegations made by the college’s former president in a whistleblower and...

A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranked New Mexico 24th nationwide in energy efficiency, a move upward of nine spots from 2019’s report card and the biggest...

These calls were made to the Tucumcari-Quay Regional Emergency Communications Center from Dec. 14 to Dec. 19: Monday • 10:15 a.m.: Fraud at South Sixth Street and West Tucumcari Boulevard,...