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At age 84, Barbara Lewis clearly remembers Dunbar School — a once segregated school for Tucson's Black children in grades first to eighth from 1918 to 1951. She clearly remembers going to the school at 325 W. Second St. and not having a library, auditorium, cafeteria or gymnasium. "Our auditorium was a large hallway. Our cafeteria was three-burners in an area downstairs," said Lewis. In 1951, ...Read More
SOCORRO – After years of community advocacy, the Eagle Picher Battery Superfund site is set to receive $19 million in federal funds to clean it up, with the money split into $3 million for soil excavation and building demolition, and $16 million for a pump-and-treat remedy for the contaminated groundwater. The New Mexico Environment Department will be contracting the cleanup work and using ...Read More
Mar. 23—Los Alamos National Laboratory must do extensive waste cleanup and site remediation and fix a long-broken monitoring system for polluted runoff to comply with a federal court's ruling on a watchdog's lawsuit. The federal ruling in favor of Nuclear Watch New Mexico brings to a close six years of litigation against the U.S. Department of Energy for what the group has characterized as the ...Read More
Mechenbier Construction is adding to the industrial market with the build of a new speculative industrial space in Northeast Albuquerque. The 9,400-square-foot speculative industrial flex building, located at 8405 Washington NE near Alameda and Jefferson, will finish construction next month, according to John Mechenbier, owner of the local commercial construction firm. Construction on the ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There’s no way of knowing if cost increases and missed construction deadlines will continue at the only U.S. underground nuclear waste repository, according to independent federal investigators, according to results of a federal watchdog report made public Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office outlined the concerns in its report, noting that the U.S. Energy ...Read More
Tucson is moving forward with the construction of a new fire station just northwest of Tucson International Airport, a project officials said is critical to the health and safety of first responders. Council members recently approved the purchase of about 3 acres of land near South Nogales Highway and East Drexel Road to house the new station. It will allow for the construction of a much ...Read More
WASHINGTON – Arizona is set to receive at least $315 million for improvements to three ports of entry along the Mexican border, money that officials say is badly needed to ease cross-border trade while improving border security. The funds are Arizona's share of the $3.4 billion in federal funding that will be used at 26 land ports of entry on the northern and southern borders, which in turn is ...Read More
PHOENIX — State officials are moving to create an agency to search for and finance the water Arizona will need if it hopes to support its current population and grow. But Arizonans, particularly those who plan to move here in the future, should be prepared to pay more — possibly a lot more — to get that water. The new Arizona Water Authority announced Friday by Gov. Doug Ducey would have the ...Read More