This post was originally published here by Journalist’s Resource at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Federal legislators embroiled in a financial or sex scandal are rewarded with money from donors and generally win re-election — if the scanda… Read more

The City of Farmington announced June 18 that it has reopened trails along the Animas and San Juan rivers, including in Berg Park. Read more

Thirteen journalists who were investigating damage to the environment have been killed in recent years and many more are suffering Read more

By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press Read more

With every day that passes, the drumbeat of war echoes a little more loudly through our media. Yesterday, officials in Read more

Superintendent Audie Brown told members of the Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education during their Monday meeting that the deadline to declare for candidacy in this year’s board election — the first to be held on the new November election date — is a couple of months away, and two bo… Read more

For 10 years, Village Clerk Sheila Hudman said, Santa Clara has been requesting control of historic Fort Bayard. Monday, that time and effort finally paid off, as the state of New Mexico agreed to enter a lease with the village of Santa Clara which will cede control of a few key buildings to… Read more

While Silver City residents have been made aware that the curbside recycling program as they know it is coming to an end July 1, many residents outside Silver City are wondering what the end of single-stream recycling in Silver City means for their plastics, paper, aluminum and other materia… Read more