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FARMINGTON — The Four Corners Regional Airport and the Shiprock Airstrip are among urban, regional and rural airports in New Mexico to receive funding for infrastructure projects that will increase safety and sustainability. Four entities in the northwest region of New Mexico will benefit from the funding. Approximately $18 million has been allocated to 46 airports in the state from the $1.2 ...Read More
The shuttered Navajo Generating Station coal plant near Page is getting new life, as former Arizona state Senator and SkyMall founder Bob Worsley plans to create a modular-home factory at the site. The coal plant and nearby mine that fueled it closed in 2019, leaving a massive hole in the region's economy as hundreds of jobs vanished. The new factory will bring sorely needed economic ...Read More
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On Wednesday, Dec. 15, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials and the three Colorado River Lower Basin states — Arizona, Nevada and California — will announce their approval of a new plan to save an extra 500,000 acre-feet of river water to prop up ailing Lake Mead. At the same time, however, a leading Colorado River researcher is warning that the new plan won't go far enough. Plan approval will ...Read More
Dec. 9—Santo Domingo Pueblo is preparing for construction of a new $19 million water treatment plant to replace an aging system and provide a sixfold increase in its volume of treated water. Tribal leaders and state government officials who gathered at the site for a groundbreaking event Wednesday said the plant, part of a larger project of overhauling a sewer system that dates to the 1960s, ...Read More
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Dec. 2—The oil and gas sector pumped a record $5.3 billion into New Mexico's state and local governments in fiscal year 2021, according to a report the industry praised and critics bemoaned as further evidence of the state's fossil fuel dependence. While the governor and some lawmakers have promoted plans to shift the state toward renewable energy in the coming decade to combat climate change, ...Read More