Michaela Helean News Today

The New Mexico Local News Fellowship and Internship Program has just launched its fifth cycle with a record seven fellows and eight interns who will work in newsrooms around the state. That is double the normal number of young journalists. The growth...

Timing is everything.And those who went to the final day of the Balloon Fiesta got to experience a rare thing.There was a break in the weather. And balloons took flight.

The Rio Rancho Observer will be changing the date it publishes from Sunday to Thursday, starting in October.The change will take effect with the last Sunday publication being printed and distributed on Sunday Sept. 25, 2022. Delivery will resume with the new Thursday publication on Thursday Oct. 6, 2022.

Every year, the City of Rio Rancho renews a vow, signed into proclamation by the mayor. The city, the proclamation says, will forever remember the events that took place on 9.11.2001. On Sunday, at Vista Verde Memorial Park, a holy ritual takes place, as it has every year since and will every year from now on. Rio Rancho remembered.Here are the personal memories of some who will never forget that day.