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Journal North - Albuquerque Journal

8 bikers shot, 3 dead during motorcycle rally in Red River

Multiple people were shot Saturday afternoon at a bar in Red River as the town geared up for an annual motorcycle rally.

Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 6:49PM
Updated: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 at 1:48AM

60% of San Ildefonso Pueblo residents have no internet; a new broadband project should help

"Something went wrong," the message on the cellphone said. "Please check your internet connection and try again." Such messages are not uncommon on the San Ildefonso Pueblo just 25 minutes north of Santa Fe.

Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 6:37AM
Updated: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 7:15AM

Supreme Court ruling on waterway protections likely to impact New Mexico

The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, weakening a bedrock environmental law enacted a half-century ago to cleanse the country's badly...

Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 at 8:06AM
Updated: Friday, May 26th, 2023 at 7:33PM

Videos, 911 calls capture frantic response to deadly rampage in Farmington

Hours of police body and dash camera videos released Friday along with hundreds of dispatch recordings paint a vivid picture of the May 15 shooting in Farmington.

Friday, May 26th, 2023 at 7:00PM

Watered up: Crowds expected at swollen lakes in New Mexico this weekend

Many New Mexico lakes are swollen to levels not seen in recent years.

Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 at 6:24PM

Meow Wolf CEO talks expansion, remaining grounded in NM

On Wednesday, Meow Wolf CEO Jose Tolosa spoke at Economic Forum of Albuquerque about the steps Meow Wolf is taking with planning for the future.

Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 at 4:58PM

Zia Pueblo wins national competition to claim best tasting water in the nation

Zia Pueblo is the first tribal organization to take gold in the Annual Great American Water Taste Test. Congrats!

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 2:35PM

Redistricting, retirements set stage for spicy state senate races in 2024

Four of the five most closely divided Senate districts lie in Albuquerque or Rio Rancho.

Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 at 10:02PM
Updated: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 at 8:20AM

Celebrate, pet owners! More of this New Mexico national preserve is now open to dogs

Valles Caldera now allows leashed pups to visit the cabin area of the preserve.

Friday, May 19th, 2023 at 5:18PM

Farmington police videos show street rampage, shootout with officers

Two women pulled over to help first woman shot in Farmington rampage. That's when they were killed, police say

Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 at 4:43PM
Updated: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 at 6:26PM

Santa Fe Indian School's new football coach Bill Moon talks to his players after practice at the school August 11. (Eddie Moore/ Albuquerque Journal)

Damian Herrera sits with his attorneys during his trail in First District Court Thursday August 12, 2021.

Members of Manuel Serrano's family pray together outside the Santa Fe Courthouse after a jury found Damian Herrera guilty. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Kate Tomkins, a second grade teacher at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School, reads a book to her students. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

From left, Michael Messner, Bushrod Lake and Pam Gilchrist, all with Veterans For Peace, protest in April near a downtown building LANL plans to use for its expansion into Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The city of Santa Fe’s council chambers used to fill up when there was a topic of public interest. But, for the past year, the public has had to attend council meetings virtually, which could limit public participation. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Students in a fourth-grade class at El Dorado Community School near Santa Fe are shown in this May file photo. Several New Mexico schools have recently been forced to temporarily return to a remote learning model due to outbreaks of COVID-19 cases. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Vivian Frey teaches 4th grade at El Dorado Community School. Santa Fe's real estate market is booming, but only time will tell if those moving in are families with children who may enter the schools system. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Visitors to Fort Union National Monument, near Watrous, see the remnants of fort walls and ruts made by wagon traffic on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Union was established in 1851 near the junction of the trail's Mountain and Cimarron cutoff routes. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Sculptor Reynaldo "Sonny" Rivera's installation "Journey's End," on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, depicts the challenges faced by men and beasts traveling the Santa Fe Trail about 900 miles from Missouri to New Mexico. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The rocky formation dubbed Wagon Mound, because it resembles a covered wagon, was a familiar landmark for travelers along the Cimarron Cutoff route of the Santa Fe Trail northeast of present-day Las Vegas, N.M. The Trail was a vital merchants road from 1821 until 1880, when the arrival of the railroad in Santa Fe made it obsolete. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Missouri trader William Becknell, known as the father of the Santa Fe Trail, would have seen this 1806 church when he passed through San Miguel del Vado, southeast of Santa Fe, on his first trading trip in 1821. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Land baron and rancher Lucien Maxwell built the Aztec Mill in Cimarron in 1864. Now a museum, the mill once provided ground grains for travelers along the Santa Fe Trail, the famed Old West commercial route that marks its 200th anniversary this year. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A car passes by a building that survived the March 1862 Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass on the Santa Fe Trail. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The New Mexico Supreme Court building in Santa Fe, as seen in March 2020. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A face mask is shown stuck in the weeds along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe on Monday. New Mexico transportation officials are relaunching an anti-litter campaign amid a recent surge in pandemic-related roadside debris. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Robert and Katy Paquin, both from Oklahoma, put on their face masks before entering a Santa Fe brewery in this April 28 file photo. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration on Friday adopted new federal guidance that fully vaccinated individuals no longer have to wear masks in most indoor and outdoor settings. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, photographed in March. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

John Paul Valencia, with the city of Santa Fe's Traffic Signals Division, hangs banners of people serving, or who have served, in the military as part of the city's "Hometown Heroes" project. Santa Fe American Legion 12 is sponsoring the banners, which are hung on light poles along Cerrillos Road through Veterans Day. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Communication Specialists Christopher Flores, left, and Alvina Dickson work answering calls at the Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Lyn deMartin holds a bull snake she recovered from inside a neighbor's grill. DeMartin organizes and trains volunteers to help relocate snakes for people in the Eldorado area. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ashkia Trujillo of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo performs traditional northern dance on Thursday in front of the remains of the Soldiers Monument that was toppled last October. The Santa Fe Arts Commission discussed ideas for a temporary art installation for the site on the Plaza in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Charles Verral, right, owner of Rob and Charlie's, talks with customer Jenn Arlin, left, at the bike shop. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this Jan. 20 file photo, from left, funeral directors Israel Perea, Santiago Salazar III, Jacob Shaw and Christy Cantu at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service prepare to transport a casket to the Santa Fe National Cemetery as part of a funeral for a woman who died from COVID-19. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ken Mayers of Veterans For Peace protests on April 23 at Guadalupe and West Alameda streets in Santa Fe, near a building LANL plans to use. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Veterans For Peace members protest at the corner of Guadalupe Street and West Alameda Street near a building LANL plans to put offices in Santa Fe on Friday April 23, 2021. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

An oil pump jack north of Carlsbad in 2019. The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill on Wednesday, sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, that would direct $7.95 billion to cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells across the country. (Eddie Moore / Albuquerque Journal)

Capital High School's Alan Gutierrez, a senior, participates in batting practice at the school Thursday. With former baseball player Nicholas Salazar now on board as coach, the program is showing improvement. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The well that supplies water to Cañoncito sits near the very dry Galisteo Creek. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The community of Eldorado, south of Santa Fe, is in stage 1 water restrictions due to long-lasting drought. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this June 1 photo, Michael Arias of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Terrero. The state is offering hunting and fishing licenses as part of a campaign to encourage new vaccinations against COVID-19. Arias has already been vaccinated. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan and his attorneys walk out of the courtroom in Tierra Amarilla for the lunch break on the first day of his trial. Lujan is facing charges of bribery of a witness and harboring a fugitive. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spins a wheel to award lottery scratch-off tickets and other prizes to COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Santa Fe in this June 2 file photo. The state's vaccine administration rate increased slightly in the days after the lottery initiative was announced. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A large box now stands on the Santa Fe Plaza where the Soldiers' Monument stood until protesters toppled it last October. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A concrete slab is all that remains of the Don Diego de Vargas sculpture that stood in Cathedral Park. City workers removed it last June and put the sculpture into storage. ( Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar and Apothecary Restaurant is among more than a dozen businesses that filed lawsuits last year against top state officials over financial losses incurred during the pandemic. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday that business losses related to COVID-19 restrictions are not automatically grounds for compensation under state law. The ruling came months after the court heard arguments in the case. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this file photo, Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, stands in the Senate chambers during debate on a bill to expunge cannabis-related criminal convictions.(Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

David Gonzalez, 19, of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Tererro last week. The state Game Commission is scheduled later this month to consider petitions that would affect public access to some waterways. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this 2019 photo, methane gas is burned off at the site of three oil wells near Carlsbad. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rusty and Violet Martin, from Canyon Lake, Texas, have lunch in the patio area of the Plaza Cafe in downtown Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Meow Wolf's The House of Eternal Return in 2019. The Meow Wolf Workers Collective announced Friday that it ratified a four-year union contract with Meow Wolf that includes worker protections and benefits like guaranteed salaries for all artists. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Kelly Quintia, left, with her daughter Zevi Keyes, 3, center, and Marna Hitt, second from left, and her daughter Vivi Hitt, 3, listen to country music by Johnny Lloyd and Tim "Timbo" Arnold, right, on the Plaza last week. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Daniel Caldera, owner of El Molero Fajitas, and his daughter Gabriella recently resumed selling fajitas from their food cart on the Santa Fe Plaza. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Friday that New Mexico will eliminate its pandemic-related business restrictions on July 1. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Mario and Rebecca Sena, of Santa Fe, ride through the Santa Fe Plaza in their '72 Volkswagen Beetle last Tuesday. Even the cruisers are returning to the Plaza now that the pandemic has subsided. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Allen Bruce Paquin, from Jemez Pueblo, shows his jewelry on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Native American Artist Laverne Loretto-Tosa, from Jemez Pueblo, shows her pottery to people on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

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