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  • Governor signs health care act into law

    Steve Hansen and Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Mar 18, 2023

    SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday morning signed into law House Bill 7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Act. The action may nullify ordinances passed by the Clovis City Commission and Roosevelt County Commission designed to discourage abortion in those communities. The law prohibits public bodies from denying, restricting, or discriminating against an individual's right to use or refuse reproductive health care or health care related to g...

  • Bus crash remembered 50 years later

    Steve Hansen and Grant McGee, The Staff of The News|Updated Dec 27, 2022

    The bridge on what is now Red Lake Road near Taiban still shows the scars – exposed rebar and sheared railings – from the crash 50 years ago Monday that took 19 lives, most of them Austin, Texas, high-school students on a church bus en route to the Taos area. At the time, Red Lake Road, now not much more than a hard dirt road, was part of U.S. 60-84. A half century later, the scars were still evident in about 40 survivors and family members gathered on Monday, the 50th ann...