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With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties and forging unexpected alliances.
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Nick Seibel, editor and publisher of the Silver City Daily Press, covers top stories each week in the Silver City Report. The Grant County Commission considers raising rates on solid waste, Silver City as the grand finale of a burro race, and why the Mule Creek Post Office may close. -
Alamogordo News managing editor Spencer Fordin covers top stories from Alamogordo and Otero County each week. -
With a mill levy proposal on the November ballot, Jennifer Kleitz, district manager for the Doña Ana Soil and Water Conservation District, explains why and what the district does. -
Bob Moore, El Paso Matters President and CEO, covers top stories each week. -
New Mexico State Poet Laureate Manuel González receives a national poet laureate fellowship and headlines at the Percha Creek Poetry Festival in Kingston on Saturday.
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Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to The Associated Press that “border wall panel installation is underway” in a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County in west Texas known as Big Bend 1. -
Elsie Begay, her granddaughter Lucy Allison Mike, and Begay’s best friend Dora Franklin died in the flood Tuesday near Newcomb, New Mexico, a community of about 400 people, family members said Friday. -
Mount Taylor is sacred to the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the pueblos of Laguna, Acoma and Zuni. -
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during the 2016 election, used Facebook data sold to a political consulting firm, during opening statements in a trial over the platform's data protections.
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Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they were prevented from entering the White House grounds after President Trump announced plans to ban all three outlets. -
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday it was leading the investigation into the officer involved in a shooting of "an illegal alien from Venezuela" during an operation in Austin, Texas. -
The lions were found dead inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a popular wildlife reserve in Tanzania. Deaths raise concerns over wildlife poisonings in East Africa. -
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has faced a major electoral setback in two state elections, with his center-right party losing ground. The far-right Alternative for Germany party made significant gains. -
President Trump has claimed that military operations are needed at his proposed triumphal arch in Washington D.C., in order to protect national security. A federal court is weighing the arch's legality.
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