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Empty beds drive Lovelace proposal

Empty beds drive Lovelace proposal

Lovelace Health System, in a letter to a Bernalillo County commissioner and in an op-ed in Sunday ...
MONIZ: Energy undersecretary for Clinton

Obama nominates physicist to energy job

President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Ernest Moniz as the nation’s next secretary of energy. The position has power over Sandia and Los Alamos labs.
The endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow’s dwindling population has triggered a new bureaucratic battle this year over how much water the fish needs.

What to do when runoff falls short?

The best thing for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, according to a new analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is a big spring runoff through central New Mexico, to create spawning habitat for the tiny fish. How big, and what to do when the water is not there, has become the subject of intense closed-door negotiations among the federal agencies trying to manage the arid river.
Signs on the restroom doors at the Circle K and McDonald’s at Central and Wyoming NE indicate the requirements for using the facilities but do not mention anything about facilities not being available at night. (JOLINE GUTIERREZ KRUEGER/JOURNAL)

When you gotta go … you can’t go here

When you've got to go, you've got to go. It's the law of nature, right? Just physi ...
A single-engine plane crashed while taking off from the Angel Fire Airport on Sunday afternoon, killing a family of four. Firefighters surround the wreckage in this photo. (Courtesy of Michael Turri)

Updated: Angel Fire plane crash kills family

A family of four died in a plane crash while taking off from Angel Fire Airport in northern New Mexico on Sunday.
(Journal)

Councilors want to cut Berry plan

Bosque trail project could lose some funds.
From left, Christian Tuton, Greyson Barrera and Christian Medrano, all members of the AHERT Ravens, try to figure out the problem with their robot, Felix, at a demonstration Sunday at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal.)

Mechanical masterminds

In the lobby of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on Sunday, the dinosaur fossils and replicas from some 65 million years ago had to move over for a decidedly more modern species: robots.
The New Mexico Land Office has paid to truck water to Dixon’s Apple Orchard to save an estimated 2,700 trees that survived wildfire and flooding in 2011. This June 2012 photo shows a driver for Urban Trucking and Excavating watering the trees. (Journal file)

Nonprofit may lease Dixon’s Orchard

Adelante seeking $1.9 million from state to restore farm as tourist destination

$2M bond plan may be key to city’s future

Development venture joins Albuquerque, UNM, private sector
Gun buybacks: Do they work?

Gun buybacks: Do they work?

Bernalillo County's February gun buybacks netted more than 600 handguns and rifles and a handf ...
New Mexico Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera listens to public comment during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Rules Committee at the New Mexico State Capitol, Friday, March 1, 2013, in Santa Fe, N.M. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)

No end in sight to Skandera hearing

The highly-charged hearing is expected to continue during the coming week in the Senate Rules Committee, whose members have not yet questioned Skandera directly.  
University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Steve Alford triumphantly swings the net off one basket after his Lobos defeated Wyoming 53-42 on Saturday at the Pit.  (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

Lobos net another title

The Lobos’ 53-42 victory against the Cowboys improved their overall record to 25-4 and 12-2 in Mountain West play, giving them the regular season title and the top seed in the league tournament. Includes slide show, video highlights and interviews.