Today's News

Plans to construct a new animal shelter are moving forward in order to give homeless pets a new place to call home.

County staff hosted an Animal Shelter Schematic Design Open House at the Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club facility at 246 East Road Wednesday evening.

Drawings were on display for the public to review. They also had an opportunity to present ideas to county staff.

Friends of the Shelter board member Sally Wilkins was delighted with the process surrounding the project.

A major conference that brings New Mexico’s extensive astronomical resources together with a national and international community of scientists will take place later this month.

The conference, “The Great Surveys Workshop,” sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), has a broad agenda for coordinating efforts toward the next two decades of cosmic surveys.

IAS’s Astrophysics and Cosmology Center, led by astrophysicist Salman Habib, will host the event.

BERNALILLO — Starting the offense wasn’t the problem. Closing the deal was.

At the end of a first half that was completely dominated by the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls soccer team, the Hilltoppers had nothing to show for it. They would pay in the second half for being unable to finish what they’d started in the first half.

Albuquerque Academy’s Bridget Hill scored the only goal of the Class AAAA girls soccer state championship in the latter part of the second half to give Academy’s Chargers a 1-0 win.

RIO RANCHO — Pulling off the upset proved to be too tall of an order for the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls cross country team Saturday.

Los Alamos had high hopes of knocking off the top-ranked Albuquerque Academy Chargers at Saturday’s state Class AAAA cross country championship, but Academy, which has been the AAAA favorites virtually since day one held on to take top honors.

Saturday’s race was run around the campus of Rio Rancho High School, finishing at the 50-yard line of Rio Rancho’s football field.