PEEC Honored As ‘Outstanding Attraction’ At 2025 New Mexico Top HAT Awards
New Mexico Tourism Department Acting Cabinet Secretary Lancing Adams, with Executive Director Jillian Rubio, center, and Board Member Lauren Winchester as they accept the ‘Outstanding Attraction’ award on behalf of PEEC during Tuesday’s 2025 NM Top HAT Awards Gala in Albuquerque. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), the nonprofit organization that operates the Los Alamos Nature Center, has been awarded “Outstanding Attraction” at the 2025 New Mexico Top HAT Awards Gala, hosted by the New Mexico Hospitality Association.
On Tuesday night, Executive Read More
Los Alamos County Council Approves $40 Million In GRT Bonds For Community Broadband Network
Community Broadband Manager Jerry Smith
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Los Alamos’ cellphone and internet activity screeched to a halt – again. In the last 12 months there have been four outages with the same culprit, a cut fiber optic line.
This time, however, the solution is not only identified but is being implemented. And the solution’s name is the Community Broadband Project.
During Tuesday’s Los Alamos County Council meeting, council unanimously approved an ordinance that authorizes the issuance of Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) improvement Read More
Level 1 Starts Here: Local Voices Shaping Game Design—And Global Security
This image of Pine Lakes Lodge is an example of modeling, texturing, AO/detail maps and collision (Xbox 360, 2007). Environment art by Holly Sheppard
Holly Sheppard, senior world builder at 31st Union. Courtesy photo
By MARLENE WILDEN
Los Alamos Daily Post
marlene@ladailypost.com
When 21-year-old Holly Sheppard began 3D modeling a simple office chair, she didn’t know she was helping lay the groundwork for a new kind of world building, one that could someday help train international nuclear inspectors.
Sheppard, now a senior world builder at 31st Union, was a University of Advancing Technology Read More
‘Lights Of Gisewa’ Farolito Lighting At Jemez Historic Site Dec. 12 & 13—Limited Tickets Now On Sale
A farolito at dusk at a previous ‘Lights of Gisewa’ annual holiday event at Jemez Historic Site. Courtesy/JHS
NMDCA News:
The community is invited to enjoy farolitos, Pueblo dancers, and Native art and music at Jemez Historic Site’s annual holiday event, Lights of Gisewa, 5-9 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, in Jemez Springs.
Walk the glowing farolito-lined paths curving around ancient Gisewa Pueblo and the remains of the San José de los Jemez Mission during this special holiday event.
The evening’s program includes Pueblo dances between two bonfires by the Northern-Southern Read More
EMNRD Budget Aims To Strengthen Wildfire Protection
EMNRD News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department is requesting $49.3 million in general fund for fiscal year 2027, representing a 9.1% increase from the previous year.
“This budget reflects the growing need to protect New Mexico’s communities from the potential dangers of wildfires that are resulting from drought and warmer temperatures we are experiencing due to climate change,” EMNRD Sec. Melanie Kenderdine said.
The FY27 budget request focuses on the following priorities:
- $50 million for Wildfire Prepared Program grants and contracts. This program,
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze To Launch Laureateship With Inaugural Reading, Translation Programs
ARTS News:
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will open his tenure in December with a workshop and reading focused on poetry translation at Queens College of the City University of New York, in the borough where he grew up, followed by his inaugural reading at the Library of Congress on Dec. 11 (rescheduled from October) and two poetry translation workshops in Sze’s hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in early January.
Sze plans to engage with students and the public in a series of readings and workshops focused on translating poetry originally written in other languages during his laureateship. Translation Read More
Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus Endorses Public Lands In Public Hands Act
NATIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, co-chaired by U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), announced its official endorsement of the bipartisan Public Lands in Public Hands Act to safeguard America’s public lands and ensure they remain open and accessible for all. This is the first bill endorsed by the Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, which was founded by Rep. Vasquez and Rep. Zinke in May 2025.
Rooted in the belief that public lands are “for the benefit and enjoyment of the Read More
NMHCA Seeks Help Delivering $1.2 Million In Child Support Payments To Rightful Recipients
NMHCA News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Health Care Authority’s (NMHCA) Child Support Services Division is seeking help from the public to connect approximately $1.2 million in undelivered child support payments to their rightful recipients.
“It could be that we have an outdated address and the payment is undeliverable, an uncashed check that has passed its expiration date, or payments made through a money order or check with no identifiable information that can be tied to a child support case,” said Betina Gonzales McCracken, Child Support director. “There is nothing that would make us happier Read More
N.M. College Enrollment Increases For 4th Consecutive Year
NMHED News:
SANTA FE — College enrollment has increased in New Mexico for the fourth consecutive year, the New Mexico Higher Education Department announced today, according to preliminary fall enrollment data from universities throughout the state.
There are 4,016 new students pursuing a degree in the fall 2025 semester, up 3.6% from the fall 2024 semester, bringing the total number of degree-seeking students in New Mexico to 113,991.
College enrollment in New Mexico has increased each year since the fall 2021 semester and 13.6% total over that four-year timeframe, representing 13,727 Read More
UP Aerospace Carries LANL Payloads To Suborbital Space At Spaceport America
UP Aerospace’s SpaceLoft-XL 18 rocket lifts off from Spaceport America in the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 19. Photo by William Gutman
SPACEPORT News:
LAS CRUCES — UP Aerospace completed its 23rd suborbital space flight at Spaceport America, carrying a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) payload to an apogee of roughly 72 miles, at 7 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19.
“We extend our congratulations to UP Aerospace on its latest successful launch from New Mexico,” said Scott McLaughlin, Executive Director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. “Our two organizations have a history dating Read More
