Category: City Desk ABQ

The National Park Service is looking to expand visitor services at Valles Caldera National Preserve this year by working with local food vendors to offer different New Mexican cuisines. Currently, there are only light snacks available at the park. This makes it difficult to provide a comprehensive visitor experience, especially to out-of-town visitors arriving at […]

A suspect that the FBI has nicknamed the “Tan Pants Bandit” may need a new moniker now that he is wanted in connection with yet another Rio Rancho bank robbery. During this robbery, the suspect was wearing gray skinny jeans. The suspect may be using different disguises. According to an FBI press release, the suspect […]

After a yearslong hiatus, the village of Placitas business community rallied to bring back Placitas Appreciation Day.  The Placitas Chamber of Commerce has been the driving force behind the community event for the past two decades, and then the COVID pandemic hit, effectively shutting it down.   “After taking a break for a few years, we […]

Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon, facing three articles of impeachment over the Watergate break-in and wiretapping scandal, resigned from office. Pardoned just a month later, Nixon would spend the rest of his years in quiet retirement, always tainted by Watergate.  Thirty years ago, a special counsel was appointed to review President Bill Clinton’s involvement […]

Bernalillo County and the state’s Environment Department teamed up to clean up a “major tire dumpsite” on the Pajarito Mesa southwest of Albuquerque. And they made a mini documentary about it. Last year, the state Environmental Department awarded the county’s Planning and Development Services a $371,237 Recycling and Illegal Duming (RAID) grant to address a […]

Albuquerque Public Schools students and their families will be asked for more feedback under its Board of Education goals discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. An ad-hoc committee charged with addressing the district’s community engagement efforts will bring formal adoption of the goals to a future meeting. School board member Courtney Jackson, who chairs the committee, suggested […]

By CHRISTINA LARSON The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in […]

By CHRISTINA LARSON The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in […]

By CHRISTINA LARSON The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in […]