Today's News

Remaining in first place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference West Division, the New Mexico Highlands University men’s basketball team asserted its dominance Tuesday night in a 75-58 romp at Colorado State-Pueblo.

Highlands picked up its 18th win in 24 tries under coach Joe Harge, who has engineered the biggest single-season turnaround in league history. NMHU is 18-6 overall and 12-4 in the RMAC, a half  game ahead of Fort Lewis in the West division.

The railroad crossing where two people have been killed in recent months is set to get safety equipment, an official said this week.

The Rio Arriba Road crossing north of Las Vegas got stop signs and pavement markings Wednesday and more safety equipment may be on the way, said  Paul Gray, the local district engineer for the state Department of Transportation.

“We’re hoping that  it will raise the awareness of motorists at that intersection, so they will stop and look both ways before making the crossing,” Gray said.

San Miguel County is hardly alone when it comes to problems in its compliance with a state law dating back to 1991, an official says.

County Treasurer Alfonso Ortiz told the County Commission last week that the state Department of Taxation and Revenue told him that only two counties were in compliance with the law in question.

“I felt a little bit better when I heard that, but we should have caught it,” he said.

He said that he has read the state law repeatedly, but it’s still open to interpretation.

The city is examining proposals for the purchase of wells and groundwater rights to expand local water supplies, officials said.

The city had issued a request for proposals, and the proposals were due Feb. 2.

“We are constantly looking into ways to increase the water supply for our residents,” Las Vegas Mayor Tony E. Marquez Jr. said. “The proposals look like they will help us bring additional water to the city.”