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The U.S. Supreme Court has appointed a new judge to oversee the Rio Grande water dispute between Texas and New Mexico. The case will continue after the high court’s June ruling dismissed a deal between New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, as five justices sided with objections from the federal government to the deal. Justices appointed Judge D. Brooks Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from Duncansville, Pa., to replace federal appeals Judge Michael Melloy as the special master in the case in July. A special m...
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...
