Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services has reinstated its former visitor policy due to the recent surge in virus cases.

One family member or support person who has passed the coronavirus screening may:Accompany a pregnant woman into the Birthing Center and stay with her during labor, delivery and postpartum stay. No additional visitors will be allowed at this time.Stay with a pediatric patient at all times until the patient is discharged from the hospital.Accompany a patient requiring a personal care attendant at admissions. Once that person leaves, no other visitors will be allowed into the facility.

Terminally ill patient’s visitation will be determined on a case-by-case...

The City of Gallup has closed its Customer Care Department until Jan. 20 due to unforeseen circumstances.

Customers may submit their utility payments on the city's online payment portal at https://utilities.gallupnm.gov or by telephone at (505) 726-4218. Payments for building permits will be processed at the City Clerk's Office.

Please call (505) 726-6138 for any questions regarding utility bills and payments.

‘Like a demon that’s always behind us,’ the Jackpile Mine toxic legacy continues’

In the village of Paguate as June Lorenzo’s grandmother knew it growing up, orchards and fields of wheat and corn carpeted nearby hillsides. Streams traversed a verdant valley where people hunted and grazed sheep near the small farming community in Laguna Pueblo. This was before a massive mine cratered the nearby land and altered the skyline. Lorenzo has looked for old photos of that landscape, but they’re hard to find. That place exists now only in stories from elders.

For a significant stretch of its 30 years in operation from 1953 to 1982, the Jackpile Mine was one of the world’s...

Oak Flat, Ariz. is a rallying point for tribal members, legislators

Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Ariz. are also home to species like ocelots and endangered Arizona hedgehog cacti.

Sadly this place of beauty, healing, and prayer is in danger. Multi-national mining conglomerate Rio Tinto — with a long, proven record of ecological and cultural destruction in other parts of the world — intends to replace its rolling hills with a massive copper mine.

The Center for Biological Diversity and its allies are working to save it.

 

BACKGROUND

For many centuries Oak Flat has played a fundamental role in the culture of Western...