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CBS7 FIRST ALERT Forecast for Saturday, July 6th, 2024
ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - CBS7 FIRST ALERT Forecast for Saturday, July 6th, 2024: It was a pleasant day across the region Friday with highs topping out right around normal for many thanks to a cold front that pushed across the region. The cold front also fueled some showers and thunderstorms across the region as it made it’s way south/southwest.
New Mexico authorities investigating hotels for price gouging during deadly wildfires
Cease-and-desist notices were sent to several New Mexico hotels after the New Mexico Department of Justice received nearly a dozen reports of price gouging as residents fled from the South Fork and Salt wildfires near Ruidoso, authorities said. The New Mexico Department of Justice sent cease-and-desist notices to several hotels...
NM governor wants more prison time for people convicted of felonies who face new gun charges
This article was published by Source New Mexico. Find more at sourcenm.com. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is proposing to once again extend how long someone can be put in prison for possessing a gun when they have already been convicted of a felony. New Mexico law prohibits someone from having...
Local charter school has creative plans in getting young people engaged in healthcare careers
New Mexicans seeking health care are facing increasing wait times for crucial appointments. According to a Legislative Finance Committee report, the state is in need of more health care workers than any other profession. While the state looks at loan forgiveness and recruitment and retention efforts, a local high school aims to raise the next generation of these professionals.
Join PEEC And State Poet Laureate Lauren Camp July 16 For ‘Poetry Under The Stars’
New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp/Courtesy photo. Join the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) for an enchanting evening with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp at the Los Alamos Nature Center on Tuesday, July 16 at 6:30 PM as part of the exciting ScienceFest 2024 celebration powered by Los Alamos Mainstreet.
FRI: It's a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief and flooding, + More
It's a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief, and flooding, to the southwestern US - By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press. It's as if the sky opened up and dropped everything it had in a matter of minutes. Giant raindrops combined with hail to transform an otherwise toasty summer day into a white wintry scene, at least for a few minutes.
Flash floods poised to continue in disaster areas through monsoon season
It’s the way of rain in the high desert: sometimes too little, and then a lot all at once. With more rain expected this week, and an uncertain monsoon season ahead, flash floods threaten lives and homes in the still-burning South Fork and Salt Fires, but also in the burn scars of the 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fires.
KRQE Newsfeed: Fire update, Needle cleanup, Cooler and breezy, Restaurant closed, Long journey
Friday’s Top Stories Friday’s Five Facts [1] South Fork and Salt Fire update – Fire crews are working to get the south South Fork and Salt fires fully contained. The South Fork Fire is 87% contained and the Salt Fire is at 84% containment. Investigators announced lightning sparked the South Fork Fire, they are still […]
New Mexico denies film incentive application on ‘Rust’ movie after fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
SANTA FE, N.M. — Producers of the western movie “Rust” may have to forgo a robust economic incentive as they try to sell the film to distributors and fulfill financial obligations to the immediate family of a cinematographer who was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin during rehearsal in 2021.
It's a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief, and flooding, to the southwestern US
MONUMENT VALLEY, Ariz — It's as if the sky opened up and dropped everything it had in a matter of minutes. Giant raindrops combined with hail to transform an otherwise toasty summer day into a white wintry scene, at least for a few minutes. Then it all turned to...
How America’s ‘most powerful lobby’ is stifling efforts to reform oil well cleanup in state after state
This story was originally published by Capital & Main and ProPublica. Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and more than 1,700 have already been left to the public to clean up.
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