ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Oilfield equipment that emits smog-causing pollution would be targeted by New Mexico environmental regulators under a proposed rule made public Thursday by the state Environment Department. The release of the proposal marks the next step in a process that started nearly two years ago as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other top Democrats in the state announced …

EUNICE — Email bantering over the weekend left Eunice’s gross receipts tax revenue still in question, with possible legal action in the works. The $158,617.96 withheld from the small Lea County city’s April distribution remains unexplained, with state officials claiming no legal reason to explain it. Eunice’s budget is based on a pandemic-reduced monthly estimated revenue of $300,000 after a …

EUNICE — Email bantering over the weekend left Eunice’s gross receipts tax revenue still in question, with possible legal action in the works. The $158,617.96 withheld from the small Lea County city’s April distribution remains unexplained, with state officials claiming no legal reason to explain it. Eunice’s budget is based on a pandemic-reduced monthly estimated revenue of $300,000 after a …

EUNICE — Backyard RV rental spaces are on the way out of Eunice. The city council on Monday repealed a 13-year-old “Temporary Emergency Housing Act,” giving residents six months to return to building code compliance. In May 2008, while the City of Eunice was busting at the seams with new people coming in to build additions to the URENCO plant …

Hobbs residents gathered early Saturday for a special cleanup day east of the site of the future Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital at the intersection of Lovington Highway and Millen Drive. Covenant Health Hobbs CEO Dan Springer said the cleanup, organized by Covenant Health Hobbs, was to combat trash — particularly plastic bags — after being at the forefront of recent …

Workmen smooth out concrete at the site of the new Hobbs Municipal Schools Career and Technical Education Center (CTECH) near Hobbs High School. When completed, the Hobbs CTECH will be the premiere vocational education facility of its kind in the state and region. Video by Blake Ovard/News-Sun

All the T’s may not be crossed or I’s dotted, but the Lea County Special Rodeo will happen this year. More than 33 years after the first Special Rodeo was held during the annual Lea County Fair and Rodeo, the committee that organizes the event dissolved, leaving no one left to organize the decades-long tradition. Until the Lea County Fair …

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health on Wednesday announced the updated statewide COVID-19 map for the two-week period beginning April 21, with 14 New Mexico counties at the Turquoise Level and three at the Green Level, at which there are fewer restrictions on commercial and day-to-day activities amid decreased virus risk. The majority of the state’s counties …

On Thursday, April 15 the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was called to investigate an officer-involved shooting near 537 East Navajo Drive in Hobbs. The NMSP officer was uninjured, and the suspect fled on foot. Agents learned at approximately 8:20 p.m., a New Mexico State Police officer initiated a traffic stop on a silver Chrysler four-door passenger vehicle on …

Three people, including a child, were hospitalized with what were described as non-life threatening injuries following a Friday morning fire that destroyed their mobile home north of Hobbs. The fire, which appeared to have started on a patio outside the mobile home in the 7100 block of North Valdez Street, was reported about 9 a.m., said Barry Young, deputy chief …