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State Pulling Out of Wolf Program

LAS CRUCES – The state Game and Fish Department will no longer participate in the controversial Mexican gray wolf recovery project. In a departure from the previous board, the Game... Read more »
Brandon Ross, listed by his adopted name Brandon Wenze-Bullard in the theater programs, sings with the cast of "Hairspray." (COURTESY CAROLYN AND JOHN HOGAN)

Young Actor Reaches for the Stars

The curtain falls for the last time this weekend on Albuquerque Little Theatre’s production of “Hairspray,” but for one cast member the show, his show, must go on. It always... Read more »

Overpayments By ERB Could End Up in Court

  Pension Fund Paid Out $1.7 Million Too Much SANTA FE – The 693 beneficiaries who received accidental interest overpayments from the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board soon will find... Read more »
Members of the Rwanda under-17 team gather to pray on the Taos Eco Park field after a practice session earlier this week. The team came to Taos to prepare at altitude for next week's U17 FIFA World Cup in Pachuca, Mexico. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)

One Country, One Team

TAOS – After a few hours of running, drilling and scrimmaging on a breezy day at Taos’ Eco Park, Rwanda’s under-17 national soccer team gathered on the field’s east sideline.... Read more »

2 Teen Suspects Found In Carlsbad

The two 15-year-old girls charged with the murder of their foster mother had put Evelyn Miranda in a chokehold, tied her hands and feet, and smothered her with a pillow,... Read more »
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2 Ariz. Towns Evacuated

Photo Credit – Morgan Petroski/Journal Cutline – Smoke from Arizona’s Wallow Fire has made for some dramatic sunsets in Albuquerque over the past week. The fire has burned more than... Read more »

‘Treatment’ Foster Mother Found Dead

A Lincoln County woman who took troubled teens into her home was found dead Wednesday morning, and two teenage girls she was fostering were missing along with the family van.... Read more »
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N.M. Grad Rate Up, But APS Rate Slips

While New Mexico's statewide high school graduation rate improved 1.2 percent to 67.3 percent in 2010, Albuquerque Public Schools' dropped slightly.
Daniele Miesem is battling a homeowners association rule that prohibits neighborhood residents from keeping chickens. She has been assessed fines of $50 a day since March. (JOURNAL FILE)

A Billboard, a Library and Some Chickens

I have spent the last two weeks ministering to my mother as she hobbles through recovery from a knee replacement, so it’s perhaps no surprise that today’s column concerns itself... Read more »

Wind Shift To Blow Smoke Southward for the Weekend

The winds dumping smoke over Albuquerque will shift south over the next two days and cast the plume mainly over the areas around Socorro and Ruidoso. After the weekend, however,... Read more »
West Mesa High students will no longer be allowed to leave the campus at lunchtime. (JOURNAL FILE)

Students Excel At Skipping Class

Playing hooky is one thing. But many West Mesa students seemed to have made it an art form – skipping a total of 88,000 classes last year, according to school... Read more »

Inquiry: Sexual Comments Not Hostile

Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener offended a county staffer and other elected officials with “inappropriate” sexual comments, but his behavior didn’t meet the legal definition of a “hostile work environment.”... Read more »