By Wheeler CowperthwaiteSpecial to the SUN
A day after being booked into the Tierra Amarilla Detention Center and complaining of methadone withdrawal, a 44-year-old Velarde...
From a Press Release
Hours before members of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association met at the Ruidoso Convention Center on Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the first reported case in New Mexico of...
SUN Staff Report
A reported stabbing over a $60 debt ended up in no arrest and no further investigation after the victim refused to cooperate.An Española City Police officer called the Española/Rio Arriba County E-911 Center on...
By Wheeler CowperthwaiteSpecial to the SUN
A Rio Arriba jury acquitted an Abiquiú man following a three-day trial ending on May 28, in a case where he was accused of beating and kidnapping his girlfriend.Jurors acquitted Juanito...
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Española Library
The Española Public Library will host Citywide movie night from...
By Herbert Soriano GarciaGuest Column
In New Mexico, the word querencia carries a special kind of weight. It means more than belonging, that word means a deep connection to a place, a feeling that the land, the...
By Jose Garcia
As Yogi Berra famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” At the bottom of the barrel among states, New Mexico’s political system is stuck at Yogi’s fork: lots...
By Javier Sanchez
Many years ago, someone told you that you can’t go any higher. Your belief lid was placed on your head, and for lack of knowing any better and for lack of any real alternative,...
Deluvina Geneva Martinez, a lifelong resident of Canjilon, NM, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2026, surrounded by her family. She was born September 9, 1962, in Leadville, Colorado, to Aquilino and Dolores Baca.
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From a Press Release
Hours before members of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association met at the Ruidoso Convention Center on Monday, the U.S. Department...
Items for Northern Briefs may be submitted by sending them to jgarcia@riograndesun.com Submissions must be received no later than noon Monday for publication...
By Wheeler CowperthwaiteSpecial to the SUN
Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Arroyo Seco man, May 15, after he allegedly fled from Walmart with...
By Cadie CarrilloSpecial to the SUN
As the 2026–2027 School Year approaches, school districts across Rio Arriba County are actively recruiting employees for a wide...
By Wheeler CowperthwaiteSpecial to the SUN
Española Police officers charged a man for allegedly beating his girlfriend after he became irate when she explained to...
By Cadie CarrilloSpecial to the SUN
It hasn’t yet been two months since Carl Marano resigned as superintendent of Española Public Schools, but he already...
