Montana men’s basketball coach Wayne Tinkle and women’s basketball coach Robin Selvig have signed three-year contract extensions, UM’s interim Director of Athletics Jean Gee announced Friday. Their contracts were recently approved by Montana’s Board of R Full Article at Montana Grizzlies
Fire officials in New Mexico said that the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has shrunk slightly to 82,000 acres but is still zero percent contained because of weather conditions. ... Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Bernalillo County firefighter Daniel Flores and his wife, Kimberly, a nurse at University of New Mexico Hospital, have been enjoying the extra space in their new home. With three children in tow, they’ve managed a move from a 1,400-square-foot starter ho Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
The true Dodgers fan has these words committed to memory: "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened." Those were the words Vin Scully used to describe Kirk Gibson's home run in the 1988 World Series. Gibson was hobbled, Orel Her Full Article at The Morning Call
The University of New Mexico took its role as the state’s flagship university seriously last week, blazing an information trail for the rest of the state’s institutions of higher learning by placing its employee salary and financial information online. U Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
It’s not a move designed to instill confidence in New Mexico’s State Investment Council: agreeing not to “voluntarily” disclose a $250,000 settlement with a California firm to close one more chapter in the state’s sordid pay-to-play investment scandal. I Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
Older Americans are struggling in New Mexico. Disturbing new research shows that the state ranks second-worst in the nation in terms of seniors facing the threat of hunger. The implications are significant on both a personal and a policy level, but this Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
I appreciated the article “Voting Centers Open Today,” which appeared in the May 19 issue of the Albuquerque Journal, and would like to respond. Part of the additional convenience of our new voting system is that the early-vote locations in Bernalillo Co Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
On June 3, the day after Craig Johnson winds up book signings in Albuquerque, Las Vegas, N.M. , and Santa Fe, he’ll have time off from his book promotion tour to watch the debut of the A&E Network series “Longmire.” The series is based on Johnson’s popula Full Article at Albuquerque Journal
Sculptor-author Destiny Allison says her new book, “Shaping Destiny: A Quest for Meaning,” considers how people move forward in their lives. “Most of us are taught to follow a prescribed formula, school, marriage, career. Full Article at Albuquerque Journal