Gallup’s third lockdown will include several changes. One will be a need for face masks.

City Manager Maryann Ustick told the Gallup Sun May 7 that all Gallup residents will be required to wear a cloth face covering when they are inside a business, non-profit or government building. That new requirement was just a suggestion by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in her most recent public health order.  Now it is mandatory in Gallup.

The mask for customers was requested by Mayor Louis Bonaguidi and announced by the governor. The ordinance will be coming up on the city council agenda May 12.

The curfew will include a lock down of roads for non-residents until May 8 at 8 pm. That means...

A family of four has to relocate after a fire engulfed the house they rented over the weekend in South Gallup.

Gallup Fire Department firefighters were dispatched to the 1200 block of South Puerco, east of New Mexico State Road 610, just after 6 pm May 2 in reference to a brush fire.

Crews from the Gallup Fire Department arrived within five minutes, discovering a fire along a backyard fence and trees, ultimately spreading to a two-story home on the property.

“There were very high winds coming from the west that made this fire almost impossible to put out,” said Fire Chief Jesus Morales, who was on the scene. “It was basically an inferno that was just consuming the...

An ordinance that calls for requiring McKinley County residents to wear masks in public to slow the community spread of COVID-19 was brought back before the Board of Commissioners during their May 5 meeting.

The ordinance had previously been brought up at an April 30 special meeting, but no action was taken on it at the time.

The purpose of the ordinance is to provide aid to essential businesses that choose to require patrons, employees and persons on their property and the adjacent public areas to wear and use masks or face coverings to slow the spread of the virus.

People who are caught violating the ordinance will be subject to a penalty fine of between $100-300 per...

Three land transactions were brought to the Gallup City Council during their April 28 meeting with the intent of determining ownership and boundary lines.

The transactions include transferring two parcels of land, totaling about four acres, from Gallup Holding and Investment Corp to the City of Gallup, where Fox Run Golf Course is encroaching on the GHIC land, in exchange for two city-owned pieces of the golf course of equal size.

The second transaction is the donation to the city of a 5.55 acre parcel abutting the golf course.

The third is the donation to the city of a 27.29 acre tract in the vicinity of the golf course.

The transfers are being done to avoid complications with...