Federal policy changes blur forest thinning vs. logging In recent months, the look of the forest along and around N.M. 518 near Taos has changed, as implementation of the Carson National Forest’s McGaffey Forest and Rio Grande del Rancho...

Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency held their third public meeting in Taos County this year to provide updates and answer questions from community members regarding the Questa Chevron Mine Superfund Site. Prior to a meeting...

The Taos Municipal Schools District is reviewing its use of Amira, an AI literacy coach and testing tool used to raise students’ early literacy scores, after parents were alarmed to learn the software is storing recordings of students’ voices and...

Taos Healthcare, a 100-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation center near Holy Cross Medical Center, has earned a four-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The rating, earned during this year’s third quarter, comes as...

In 2022, the U.S. Forest Service named the Enchanted Circle one of the country’s top 10 landscapes most at-risk of catastrophic wildfire. Much of the forest in and around Taos County adapted historically with fire, and regular wildfires maintained...

Barbara Brandenburg Brenner, the only grandchild of Taos Society of Artists founder Oscar E. Berninghaus, passed from this world Sept. 15, 2026, just two days before the Taos Fall Arts Festival, which she founded, resumed operations on Sept. 17....

The Abiquiu News will change hands this fall as founders Carol and Brian Bondy turn operations over to editor and reporter Michael Tashji. The free, online weekly newspaper covers news and events in and around Abiquiu and publishes information...

On Tuesday (Sept. 22), the Town of Taos Council adopted a new study that says the town needs 787 more homes over the next decade. At a resident’s urging, a councilor also put on record that the town’s new community development director must...

Glossy golden bagels emerge from Brenda Wills’ oven. Wills, founder of Memaw’s Bagels in Questa, says the thin crust on the outside and dense, chewy center is the result of months of experimentation she’s spent in pursuit of the “true...

Only one green chile cheeseburger from the northern half of New Mexico made the cut for this year’s New Mexico State Fair Green Chile Cheeseburger Challenge, and it came from Aztec.

Council also discussed recent incursions of black bears into the village, learns the Wheeler Peak Wilderness is not off-limits to thinning, and signs off on private warranty coverage for residential water meters

Annual carbon emission reduction has been a major focus at Taos Ski Valley since 2015, according to Matt Weyer, sustainability manager for the resort. Recently, however, federal environmental policies have complicated one component of that that...

The following is a summary of activity at Stray Hearts Animal Shelter from Monday (April 13) through Sunday (April 19). Animals currently in care: 57 Total intakes this week: 8 Transfers this week: 12 Animals in foster: 11 Pounds of food:...

Lefonso Castillo doesn’t spend very much time behind the superintendent’s desk. On Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 22), the new superintendent of the Questa Independent School District walked the school halls and greeted anyone who came along....

September is National Recovery Month. Recovery-Friendly Taos County, a program of Rio Grande Alcohol Treatment Program, will be celebrating recovery from behavioral health issues at Bataan Hall, 121 Civic Plaza Dr, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on...

Taos Municipal Schools held onto recent gains in math and reading proficiency during the 2025-2026 school year, but science proficiency fell sharply, according to recently unembargoed NM Vistas report card data. The 2025-2026 NM Vistas report...

Updated Sept. 23 at 7:50 p.m.A flash flood watch is in effect for Red River, Angel Fire, the Village of Taos Ski Valley until 6 a.m. Thursday (Sept. 24), along with much of the eastern half of New Mexico.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a community meeting and open house Thursday (Sept. 24) to update the public on the ongoing remediation of the shuttered Chevron Questa molybdenum mine, according to an announcement posted to …

In a press release Friday (Sept. 18) the Town of Taos announced it would implement Phase 4 water restrictions, effective immediately. The town has been in Phase 3 water restrictions since late August.

The following is a condensed list of reports made to Taos Central Dispatch within the Town of Taos from Aug. 26, 2026 – Aug. 30, 2026. Aug. 26 3:41 a.m. Information Report, Paseo del Pueblo Sur — Caller said his debit card was stolen the...

Twenty five years after first responders rushed into the wreckage of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001 attack, many are still fighting an invisible battle against illnesses that followed them home from Ground Zero. That fight...

National companies and CEOs with ties to the massive Project Jupiter data center in Doña Ana County have poured tens of thousands of dollars into gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland's campaign. Oracle, one of the companies involved with Project...

Between 100-150 people filled the bleachers at the Alta Vista Elementary gymnasium in Questa Thursday evening (Sept. 10) for a special meeting of the Village of Questa Council regarding Kit Carson Electric Co-op's green hydrogen project.

Town of Taos and Taos County first responders gathered on Anaya Field Sept. 11 to remember the day the U.S. came under attack on its own soil. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes in a highly-coordinated...

Property tax bills are going up in almost every corner of Taos County, and the commission approved the new rates even as counties across New Mexico fight the state over who is supposed to verify them against municipalities’ collective budgetary...

Taos Whole Community Health is enrolling participants for its next PreventT2 Diabetes Prevention Program, a free, yearlong program for adults at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

New Mexico’s biggest cheerleader — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — is continuing to lash out at President Donald Trump for suggesting the state be renamed “New America.” In an interview with the MeidasTouch Network, a liberal media company that...

Newly unsealed court records reveal a witness allegedly saw Cesar Paz-Garcia fatally shoot two women at a mobile home park in El last February, then rode with him as he drove off in one of the women’s vehicles and disposed of the gun. The...

Andrea Mar, Local Red Willow Hospice volunteer, was intrigued when she heard about a bereavement practice that began in Ōtsuchi, Japan. A man named Itaru Sasaki placed a disconnected telephone in a booth in his garden following the death of his...

The Town of Taos Events invites the community to the Free Community Health Fair and Blood Drive: Hope, Health, and Healing for Our Community on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 9 a.m. to noon at Don Fernando Hall, 120 Civic Plaza Drive. This free,...

New Mexico’s suicide rate decreased 19 percent between 2024 and 2025, according to provisional data from the New Mexico Department of Health. The department said social connectedness, higher educational attainment and housing security were...

Anyone driving along state Route 518 outside of Taos the past few years has noticed the reddish-brown, dead-looking trees sticking out against the backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. But the brown trees aren’t necessarily dead, they’re...

Bears in trees. Bears nabbed near schools. Bears electrocuted on light poles. Bears hit on highways. In New Mexico this year, human-bear encounters have made inescapable news. And data kept by the Department of Wildlife show just what an outlier...

MainStreet de Las Vegas has received a $100,000 grant from the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Creative Industries Division to help develop the city’s creative economy and support revitalization efforts in its historic Railroad...

Taos Ski Valley today announced a new partnership with Stio, naming the mountain lifestyle brand as the resort’s official apparel partner beginning in the Winter 2027 ski season. The collaboration brings together two mountain community-focused...

The Taos County Economic Development Corporation’s third annual Food Fiesta drew hundreds of people to its commercial kitchen in Taos on Saturday (Sept. 12). The event follows a turbulent year of legal challenges and other controversies for the...

Tuesday (Sept. 15), the House Committee on Natural Resources unanimously advanced Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández’s (NM-03) H.R. 4598, Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Wate…

Between 100-150 people filled the bleachers inside the Alta Vista Elementary gymnasium in Questa Thursday evening (Sept. 10) for a raucus special meeting of the Village of Questa Council regarding Kit Carson Electric Co-op’s green hydrogen …

The Taos Mutual Aid Team, Town of Taos, Holy Cross Medical Center and The Serpens Foundation, an international medical non-profit, are offering a free adult hands-only CPR course on Sunday (Sept. 13), from 1-4 p.m. at Don Fernando Hall, 120 C…

A Taos man long identified by police as the suspect in the murder of two women at a mobile home park in El Prado last February has been charged in the incident over a year after the women were found dead inside a residence.

For 40 winters, the trails atop Bobcat Pass — Sherwood Forest, Jabberwocky and Tinkerbell, to name a few — have carried cross-country skiers across the Enchanted Forest Cross Country Ski Area. Owner Ellen Miller-Goins has navigated those...

The legal back and forth in the case between Taos-based nonprofit radio station Cultural Energy, or KCEI, and the Cristobal De La Serna Land Grant continues. The land grant filed an appeal in New Mexico Supreme Court Tuesday (Sept. 8), asking the...

The following is a condensed list of reports made to Taos Central Dispatch within the Town of Taos from Aug. 26, 2026 – Aug. 30, 2026. Aug. 26 3:41 a.m. Information Report, Paseo del Pueblo Sur — Caller said his debit card was stolen the...

Frank “Gil” Graves, the 81-year-old co-owner of the Chili Line Depot in Tres Piedras, is asking a Taos district judge to dismiss his charges without prejudice, alleging the state violated his due process rights by failing to submit evidence ahead...

Meta wants a do-over. The New Mexico Department of Justice recently secured a major victory against the world’s largest social media company — Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta — obtaining rulings from a jury and judge that could...

Donna Howell is a bat biologist, dance fanatic, mill historian, and the “chief grease monkey” at the Cleveland Roller Mill Museum in Mora, New Mexico. Howell gives tours at the museum all year round, but her most crowded tours come once a year...