Troubled $25 billion nuclear project gets OK to continue ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s utility regulators are allowing construction to continue on two new nuclear reactors, despite massive cost overruns for the multi-billion-dollar project. Thursday’s decision by the state’s Public Service Commission will shape the future of the nation’s nuclear industry, partly because the reactors at Plant Vogtle were the first …

When business is good in one place, maybe it’s a great time to expand. In the same location as the former Tea Room adjacent to Kountry Korral, the Hobbs Outlaw Grill at 521 W. Navajo promises to be just as great a place to have lunch or dinner as the original Outlaw Grill in Eunice. Owner Johnny Robertson, who first …

The McDonald’s in north Hobbs is undergoing an exterior remodel, which is planned to be completed in mid-December. Kenny Fadke, Hobbs and Lovington McDonald’s owner operator, said McDonald’s located at 3726 N Lovington Highway, near Walmart, began its exterior remodel Monday. “This is the final phase of a five-year remodel process,” Fadke said. In 2012, a side-by-side drive thru was …

Hurricane Harvey is a partially responsible for no more blizzards in Hobbs. Harvey and the recent economic downtown in the oil industry were two reasons for the closure of the Dairy Queen at 220 E. Bender. Low performance for corporate finances earned the rest of the blame. The parent company, Texas-based Vasari LLC, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday listing …

A Hobbsan has opened a new clothing boutique where she offers her personal style and new clothing lines on the store shelves. Gypsy Cowgirl held its grand opening Friday and was welcomed by the Hobbs Chamber of Commerce, the Hobbs Hispano Chamber of Commerce and the New Mexico Black Chamber of Commerce with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Gypsy Cowgirl is …

In a sign that medical care in Lea County is improving, Lea Regional Medical Center reports that emergency room visits result in almost 40 percent fewer transfers to larger city hospitals than last year. “Our goal in the last several years has been to increase our local services so we can decrease people having to leave our community for good health …

In a sign that medical care in Lea County is improving, Lea Regional Medical Center reports that emergency room visits result in almost 40 percent fewer transfers to larger city hospitals than last year. “Our goal in the last several years has been to increase our local services so we can decrease people having to leave our community for good health …

It’s late Friday night and Jill Tanner is hoping more than five people attend the grand opening of her new women’s boutique store in Hobbs the next morning. When she arrived Saturday at 8 a.m. — two hours before the grand opening — shoppers were already standing in line. By the time the ribbon cutting took place, around 100 eager …

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Eddy County officials are advancing a proposal to regulate man camps as residents voice concerns about the temporary housing for transient workers. The county Planning and Development Committee voted unanimously Thursday to send the proposed ordinance to the County Commission. The Carlsbad Current-Argus (https://goo.gl/GJx2YK ) reports that the committee’s vote following a public hearing Thursday during …