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Kiwanis members gather for the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the club at the Blue Window Restaurant. Photo by Karin Church BY CHERYL PONGRATZLos Alamos Kiwanis Club Kiwanis has been in Los Alamos for 75 years. Some of you may know that it was a fraternal organization from 1948 to 1987. That means a “boys club.”…

The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire, the largest recorded fire in state history, tore through Northern New Mexico last year. But residents in the area are still picking up the pieces.

Max and Rachel Garcia are trying to rebuild after the massive Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire scorched most of the 600 acres they ranch. They are one of three families the

It is a cruel turn that the rain that helped stop the Calf Canyon/Hermit's Peak Fire created the mud and floods that will turn it into a years-long torment.

A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.

A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.

A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.

A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.

The organization needs help in repairing trails damaged by the Cameron Peak Fire.

Less than a year after the devastating Calf Canyon/Hermit's Peak Fire – the largest wildfire in the state's history – the conversation around prescribed burns is starting back up again.