Today's News

While driving along N.M. 4 within the last hour, Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy came upon a scene resembling something out of an action movie.

A truck was parked in the middle of the highway and the driver was wielding a 3-foot-long metal jack handle in the air.

A bicyclist was clutching his bicycle in front of himself in a protective manner against the threatened blows from the rod.

Check back for more details on this developing story.

The Capital Improvement Project Oversight and Evaluation Committee had a tough decision to make.
With 16 capital improvement project (CIP) proposals vying for funding to undertake first-round studies, the committee set about the task of ranking the projects.
The White Rock Civic Center emerged from the process in the number one spot.
The committee ranked the different applications Thursday at council chambers.
The final rankings for the remainder of the CIP proposals were:
• A cover to the Los Alamos Ice Rink, two

SANTA FE — The hotly contested issue regarding the legality of a citizen vote on the question of whether to reconstruct the municipal building on its original site at Ashley Pond has been decided – at least in the short term – there will be no election.

District Court Judge Barbara Vigil ruled Monday to grant plaintiffs Christine and George Chandler’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the special election on the grounds that it is illegal.

ATLANTA (AP) — Despite tough talk on the Internet, there was little if any indication of a passenger revolt at many major U.S. airports, with very few people declining the X-ray scan that can peer through their clothes. Those who refuse the machines are subject to a pat-down search that includes the crotch and chest.