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A federal forestry agency is claiming responsibility for igniting both of the blazes that merged to become the historic wildfire burning in northern New Mexico. The cause of the Calf Canyon wildfire in April was a prescribed pile burn the U.S. Forest Service lit in January, the agency's own investigators announced Friday morning. They concluded the Calf Canyon Fire "was caused by a pile burn holdover from January that remained dormant under the surface through three winter...
A Clovis magistrate courtroom became a laboratory for a new eviction diversion program this month, ushering in a major change to state housing policy that aims to bring the rental market closer to normal while also staving off a wave of evictions amid a lingering pandemic. What happens in Clovis doesn't stay there. Sometime in March, the Eviction Prevention and Diversion Program will be expanded from the Ninth Judicial District to all of New Mexico, allowing for the first...