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Seminole Sentinel
April 27, 2018
HOBBS, N.M. — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will meet and take public comments on a proposed interim nuclear storage waste site in western Lea County. ... Another NRC public meeting the proposed Holtec interim storage site will be in Carlsbad on May 3 at the Eddy County Fire Service.
KRQE News 13
April 27, 2018
LOVING, N.M. (KRQE) - After seeing fatal crash after fatal crash, and even earning the nickname 'the highway of death,' New Mexico transportation officials finally took action along an infamous ... The Eddy County Sheriff's Department says it has also written about 100 tickets in the area over the past month.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 27, 2018
Carlsbad Police said a man was arrested in connection with the shooting of an 8-year-old boy Thursday afternoon. Keyon Mason, 18, was charged with abandonment or abuse of a child, and tampering with evidence. Police alleged that Mason shot the child in the chest at the 100 block of South 3rd Street.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 27, 2018
Danger for drivers on U.S. Highway 285 in southern Eddy County and west Texas continues to grow as more vehicles go on the road. In response, law enforcement from both states worked together to increase police presence. Wochit.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 26, 2018
Danger for drivers on U.S. Highway 285 in southern Eddy County and west Texas continues to grow as more vehicles go on the road. In response, law enforcement from both states worked together to increase police presence. The New Mexico State Police and Texas Department of Safety set up numerousÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 25, 2018
It's been more than two months since Michael Ponce, 39, was killed in a car crash on U.S. 285, in southern Eddy County. ... Representatives of the family filed a civil lawsuit in February in New Mexico's First Judicial Court in Santa Fe, alleging fault by both the New Mexico Department of Transportation forÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
April 6, 2018
USDA names Eddy County 'disaster area' due to crop losses from drought ... The destruction led the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to identify Eddy County farmers and ranchers as qualified for federal assistance to ... Visit the Carlsbad Current-Argus (Carlsbad, N.M.) at www.currentargus.com.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
March 30, 2018
The sprawling mountains and rangelands of southeast New Mexico might be beautiful, but preservation of the land and ecosystems isn't free. Conservation efforts in southern Eddy County got a boost from millions of dollars in grant funding through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).
Albuquerque Business First
December 31, 1999
Matador Resources Co. has completed the expansion of its natural gas plant in Eddy County. The Dallas-based energy company Matador ... According to its website, Matador has operations in southeast New Mexico, east, west and south Texas along with northeast Louisiana. In addition to the expansion ofÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
February 13, 2018
A bill intended to generate almost 70 percent of the funds Carlsbad and Eddy County officials said are needed to prevent the Carlsbad Brine Well's ... 4.15 percent of the excise tax, a three-percent tax assessed from the purchase price of a motor vehicle bought in New Mexico, to the State Road Fund.
KOB 4
February 13, 2018
CARLSBAD, N.M. – A potential sinkhole projected to be as big as one-and-a-half football fields could open up at any moment in southeast New Mexico, in a ... Veni said the City of Carlsbad has set aside at least $4 million, Eddy County has pitched in $4 million and another $2 million could come from theÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 12, 2018
But Congressman Steve Pearce, a Hobbs, New Mexico, Republican, says the listing could harm local communities, businesses, jobs, and may reduce New Mexico's revenues from local energy production. He says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the decision despite a lack of scientific information.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
February 6, 2018
For the third year in a row, Eddy County received an unmodified report on its 2016-17 financial audit. According to the New Mexico Office of the State Auditor, "unmodified" means that the audit was completed without problems and the auditor feels "confident that everything in the financial statements is aÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 5, 2018
CARLSBAD, N.M. -- Sheriff's deputies in Eddy County have charged a 44-year-old Malaga man with killing his 67-year-old mother. Advertisement. According to Sheriff Mark Cage, investigators charged Jesus Navarro with an open count of murder after detectives opened an investigation into HortensiaÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
January 31, 2018
About $24.9 million of Eddy County's $84.1 million in state funding for K-12 public schools last year was attributed to state tax revenue generated by extraction operations, per a recent report from the New Mexico Tax Research Institute, a self-described non-partisan tax research group based in AlbuquerqueÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
January 17, 2018
“In an effort to mitigate trespass and illegal dumping concerns on State Trust Lands, State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn is targeting caliche pits in New Mexico's oil patch that are used as makeshift landfills,” read a news release from the SLO. Dunn said the refurbished land could also generate revenueÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
December 31, 1999
These contracts, developed by the FWS along with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, State Land Office, oil and gas industry and local ... A portion of the Black River in southern Eddy County is the last known habitat of the Texas hornshell mussel, a rare mollusk that could be listed as anÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
December 31, 1999
An Artesia native, the Republican candidate graduated from Artesia High School in 1980. He earned a bachelor's degree from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces in 1984 and graduated from Texas Tech Law School, earning his Juris Doctorate in 1987. Francis' law career started in Carlsbad whenÃÂ ...
Artesia Daily Press
December 8, 2017
... your pecans may be subject to seizure. But more importantly, you may be responsible for spreading this pest to non-infested areas of a multi-million-dollar industry. (EDTOR'S NOTE: Woods Houghton is the Eddy County agriculture extension agent. Contact him at 575-887-6595 or whoughto@nmsu.edu.)Â ...
Oil and Gas Investor
December 8, 2017
The Fort Worth, Texas-based E&P said the acreage contains horizontal reservoir targets in the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp formations in Eddy County, N.M. ... (NYSE: DVN), that have requested non-standard 160-acre spacing permits, according to New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources ...
KOB 4
December 7, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Many parts of New Mexico woke up Thursday to some of the coldest temperatures yet this fall. ... Portions of the Guadalupe Mountains in Eddy County are also experiencing a winter storm warning Thursday morning, with snowfall amounts of two to six inches expected in some ...
WorldOil
December 7, 2017
... undeveloped acreage from Resource Rock Exploration, LLC, an oil and gas company backed by Kayne Anderson Energy Funds. The acreage, which contains multiple horizontal reservoir targets in the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp Formations, is located in Eddy County in New Mexico's Delaware basin.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
December 6, 2017
He received the Beef Backer award from the New Mexico Beef Council, naming Brown and “unsung hero” for his work in promotion, and education and research of local agriculture. “This year's recipient, Darrell Brown, epitomizes the 'unsung' volunteer, never noticed or praised for the nearly 30 years he ...
KRQE News 13
December 6, 2017
EDDY COUNTY, NM. (KRQE) – A gas line explosion in Eddy County forced people from their homes in the middle of the night. It's left a lot of people shaken and wondering how it happened. Workers have been on scene cleaning up all day, as well as investigators who are trying to find a cause.
Albuquerque Journal
November 30, 2017
NM sees big jump in federal oil and gas revenues ... A drilling rig operates near a pumpjack in Eddy County. (Photo courtesy of NM Oil & Gas Association). New Mexico reaped $455 million from energy and mineral production on federal and Indian lands in fiscal year 2017, up $86.5 million from the ...
Albuquerque Journal
November 30, 2017
By Adrian C. Hedden / Carlsbad Current-Argus, N.M. (TNS) ... About 1,620 invasive feral hogs were removed from New Mexico in the five years since eradication began. ... “They're just mean animals,” said Woods Houghton, Eddy County agriculture extension agent with New Mexico State University.
KRQE News 13
November 30, 2017
ARTESIA, N.M. (KRQE) – The sheriff's office is asking for your help tracking down a pecan thief in Eddy County. A property owner south of Artesia called police after catching a man stealing pecans from his farm. The suspect was able to get away before deputies showed up, but surveillance cameras ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 29, 2017
The authority voted Tuesday to pursue funding options for $25 million through at least six sources — Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund, City of Carlsbad and Eddy County, and the state of New Mexico's general fund provided through the Appropriations Bill, ...
High Country News
November 27, 2017
... Will Barnes and a few colleagues from the New Mexico State Land Office ... else in the world but on 234 acres in Eddy County, New Mexico.
KOB 4
November 26, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When thinking about Christmas time in the Duke City, ... said Julie Miller Rugg, executive director of the New Mexico BioPark Society. ... There is also a special discount for residents of Eddy County.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 26, 2017
An eight-mile stretch of the Black River in Southeast New Mexico is ... Today, it is only found in Eddy County, and some parts of West Texas.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 22, 2017
The New Mexico Department of Health and the National ... CMC, Carlsbad and Eddy County residents would not have to travel far for needed ...
New Mexico Political Report
November 22, 2017
Texas sued New Mexico four years ago, alleging that New Mexico is ... The Carlsbad Current-Argus reported that Eddy County officials are ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 21, 2017
Eddy County officials are planning a public meeting to discuss the county's ... Robert McEntyre, spokesman with the New Mexico Oil and Gas ...
Artesia Daily Press
November 17, 2017
NMDA places Southeast N.M. back under pecan weevil quarantine ... The New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) is issuing another ... the NMDA at 575-646-3007 or Eddy County Extension Agent Woods Houghton at ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 17, 2017
Eddy County moved to block the development of an RV park on ... a liquid waste system permit from the New Mexico Environment Department.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 14, 2017
Current-Argus wins four awards from NM Press Association ... The awards represent the best in New Mexico journalism from July 2016 to June 2017. ... in Eddy County published March 28, 2017, titled "Circle of violence.".
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 14, 2017
Quail are some of the most popular game birds in Eddy County and southeast New Mexico, said Dan Williams, spokesman with the New ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 14, 2017
28 as the official #GivingTuesday2017 in Carlsbad, NM. ... Devon donated to the United Way of Carlsbad & South Eddy County, the North ... She graduated from New Mexico State University with a Master's of Social Work in ...
KOB 4
November 7, 2017
ARTESIA, N.M. -- Kathy Kolt is the president of the Eddy County Shooting Range Archery Division. Kolt has been working with underprivileged ...
KRQE News 13 (blog)
November 7, 2017
EDDY COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Eddy County Sheriff's Office is looking for a fix for a dangerous stretch of state Highway 285 that has seen ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 6, 2017
HealthInsight New Mexico has awarded four home health and hospice centers in Eddy County for their quality of care. Encompass Home ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 5, 2017
And it could derail New Mexico's $180 million pecan industry. ... One of Eddy County's largest pecan producers, the Calvani Pecan Company ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 3, 2017
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Officials in one southeastern New Mexico county have collected more than $300,000 in back taxes from oil and ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 1, 2017
New Mexico State Police said a man may have been inattentive causing his ... Jennifer Armendariz, emergency manager with the Eddy County ...
Digital Journal
November 1, 2017
CARLSBAD, NM, November 01, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Carl's Jr. has begun construction ... agency for the City of Carlsbad and Eddy County, New Mexico.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
October 31, 2017
The State of New Mexico issued the license. The City of Carlsbad sold them water. Eddy County collected taxes. This lets none of them out.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
October 28, 2017
Since July there 1,187 people have been arrested in Eddy County. ... 2 Section 13 of the New Mexico Constitution, which regulates bail reform.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
October 28, 2017
Three outpatient practices in Eddy County received awards for ... Wienbar, executive director of HealthInsight New Mexico, in a news release.
KOB 4
October 27, 2017
EDDY COUNTY, N.M. -- New Mexico Police say a 50-year-old Alabama man and a 26-year-old from Artesia man died when their pickup trucks ...
