I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The Las Conchas fire has become the largest wildfire in state history, burning over 103,841 acres as of Friday afternoon, according to KOB.com.
The Las Conchas fire has now burned more than 80,000 acres as of Wednesday night, leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory closed through at least Friday.
The Las Conchas fire has burned more than 60,000 acres as of early Wednesday, leaving Los Alamos virtually empty under a mandatory evacuation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory closed through at least Thursday. The fire is three percent contained, according to Inciweb.org.
The Los Conchas wildfire has burned 43,000 acres since Sunday, forcing residents of Los Alamos to evacuate Monday.
The Los Conchas Wildfire has forced the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close. Lab officials stress that radioactive material has been secured.
Los Alamos National Laboratory hopes to spend $1.7 billion to complete the environmental cleanup by a 2015 deadline, with about half that cost coming from four master contracts scheduled to be let this spring, according to the Santa Fe…
In an address to the press about the failed Christmas Day bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, President Barack Obama called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to work with the national laboratories to on technology to detect explosives…
Want to know what a top-secret truck moving “special nuclear materials” around the country looks like?
Check out this photo, which comes from a blog at the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. The photo was released after a Freedom of Information…
If you’ve heard repeatedly that New Mexico relies on government spending to prop up its economy, but like me wondered what that looks like exactly, here’s some data to fill in the picture.
According to the Consolidated Federal Funds…
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That was the sound that accompanied the collective slap against the forehead from the nation’s national security community when news came out Tuesday that a 266-page report laying out details of the nation’s network of nuclear sites and programs…
The feds are looking to transfer New Mexico’s national labs from the Department of Energy to the Pentagon, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Criticism mounted Wednesday against the plan as New Mexico’s congressional delegation vowed to fight such…
About 1,890 employees and visitors to Los Alamos National Laboratory could have been exposed to beryllium contamination at a storage facility in Los Alamos Canyon, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Meanwhile, superintendent Winston Brooks has ordered 5 percent…
A 10-year-old Texas girl died Tuesday at Ski Santa Fe when she hit a tree, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal has a very interesting story about authors of a forthcoming book…
Former LANL contractor Frank Young talks about his work at the lab, the illness he believes he got there, and the politics of running an influential blog read by policymakers from Los Alamos to Washington.
