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SANTA FE — New Mexico lawmakers are sending Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham a proposal that would raise the statewide minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023. It's the product of a late-night agreement struck in the final days of the legislative session. The Senate adopted the agreement late Thursday, and the House signed off in the early-morning hours Friday. Lujan Grisham helped negotiate the proposal with lawmakers after the two chambers adopted different proposals and couldn't agree on identical legislation. The $12 level is h...
New Mexico lawmakers have rejected a proposal that would have repealed the state's anti-abortion law, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The legislation, backed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, failed on an 18-24 vote after a brisk debate on the Senate floor. House Bill 51 sought to repeal a law that makes it a crime to end a woman's pregnancy, except in certain circumstances. The statute is largely unenforceable now because of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Every Republican voted against the bill,...
RIO RANCHO — The most mind-numbing thing about the Melrose girls’ 65-33 win in the Class 1A semifinals Thursday might be that it’s the closest anybody’s come to the Buffaloes so far in the bracket. There wasn’t much doubt following a 20-4 first quarter at the Santa Ana Star Center that Melrose, the Class 1A runnerup the last two seasons and the No. 1 seed this year, would make its way to a fifth-straight title game. They did just that at the Santa Ana Star Center, leading by as many as 36 to set up a battle with second-se...
About 4,000 Xcel Energy customers in Clovis-Portales were without power late Thursday afternoon as crews continued to repair damages from Wednesday’s wind storm. But there was good news: The electric company reported "the majority" of those impacted would have power restored before midnight Thursday. An Xcel news release reported 136,000 of its Texas-New Mexico customers were impacted by the storm, “a record-setting number for any outage event on the regional system.” Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves said in the news release that cr...
An Xcel Energy lineman was killed near Hereford on Wednesday night as repair crews worked to restore power across the region following a day of high winds. "Our thoughts are with the family of the line worker who lost his life Wednesday evening while working to restore power in Hereford, Texas," Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves said. "We are working with authorities to determine the cause of the incident and are committed to supporting our employee's family and coworkers during this...
High winds — including gusts in the 70-mph range — are being blamed for a Union Pacific train being blown "off its tracks, off a train trestle and down into a deep ravine" near Logan in Quay County, State Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview, said in a news release. Woods said no one was injured in the derailment and the cars were empty of cargo and did not carry any hazardous material. "This is a reminder that we cannot take the high winds for granted and we all need to take pre...
BERNALILLO — Last season’s Class 2A champion is two wins away from pulling the same feat in this year’s Class 1A bracket. Noah Maxwell led all scorers with 19 points, and second-seeded Fort Sumner dominated the second half for a 69-36 victory over New Mexico School for the Deaf at Bernalillo High School. The Foxes (22-8), who move on to a 1:15 p.m. Thursday quarterfinal against third-seeded Maxwell at the Santa Ana Star Center, pulled away with a 25-10 third quarter after the Roadrunners (22-6) played them to a 22-18 first...
BERNALILLO — Senior guard Tristan Sena had 26 points, and the Melrose Buffaloes punched their ticket to the Class 1A semifinals Wednesday with a 77-69 victory over Logan at Bernalillo High School. Devon Bailey added 21 and Dylan Valentine 10 for the Buffaloes (23-7), who move on to a 4:45 p.m. Thursday semifinal against top-seeded Quemado at the Santa Ana Star Center. Although two players combined for just over 60 percent of the Buffalo points, Melrose coach Kevin Lackey liked that the team had key contributions, with t...
BERNALILLO — If the Class 1A bracket is any more difficult in 2019 with New Mexico consolidating six classes into five, nobody’s told the Melrose Buffaloes. The 1A runnerup for the last two seasons remained on cruise control as the top seed, pummeling eighth-seeded Moriarty 73-33 Wednesday evening at Bernalillo High School. Nataley Mondragon scored 23 to lead Melrose (23-6), which never trailed and outscored the Rams in every category, including in the paint (30-14), off turnovers (31-18), second chance (16-1) and off the...
RIO RANCHO — Wednesday wasn’t easy for the Texico Wolverines. But then again, neither is the Class 2A bracket. “There are 11 pretty good teams in our classification,” Texico coach Ty Thatcher said after the Wolverines posted a 69-58 win over Mora in its 2A quarterfinal affair at the Santa Ana Star Center. “It feels like the most competitive bracket I can remember in a long time. Even our play-in game was a quality opponent. They had some guys who could really hurt you. It’s not a ‘play average and win’ situation.” Tex...
Two people you'll want to meet are arriving in eastern New Mexico this week to spend the remainder of March in our area. They're sharing their love of photography, writing, and poetry through a series of events in Portales and Clovis. Don Mitchell and Ruth Thompson call Hilo, Hawaii, their home, but they are returning for their third visit since 2012 to the High Plains, this time as the Jack Williamson Endowed Chairs in Science and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University....
On Monday night, having had 48 hours to absorb his team's 78-67 season-ending loss at Hobbs, one thing hadn't changed in two days for Clovis boys basketball head coach Jaden Isler. He was proud of how a mostly-young team dealing with a new system and new coaches had competed, had battled to win a District 4-5A championship and made its return to the state tournament. Isler played for Clovis when state-tournament appearances and deep runs in them were routine. He had also previ...
Southeastern New Mexico is riding a monster wave of oil production, with output flooding into a record of 250 million barrels in 2018. That’s up 46 percent over 2017, when the state produced 171 million barrels, also a record at that time. And it’s nearly three times the 86 million barrels produced in 2012, when the modern technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling unleashed a years-long gusher from previously untapped shale oil reserves in the Permian Basin in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. Nat...
