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Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Many historians called it the turning point in the war against the Axis powers. It was June 6, 1944 - D-Day - and some 150,000 troops [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Senate District 24 Linda Trujillo is headed back to the Legislature. he received 62% of the vote in a competitive three-way race for the Senate District [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Zozobra is multiplying - and we're not talking about his arithmetic skills. More than 30 miniature Zozobra statues - about the size of a 6- or [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com TIERRA AMARILLA If there was ever a moment when New Mexico experienced the turbulence of the 1960s - bullets, anger, protest, change - it came on [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Sunday Spotlight MORA - If necessity is the mother of invention, Daniel Garcia of Mora may well be the father. Turn any corner on his multi-acre [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com More than 80 years after a historic battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II ended, unexpected discoveries of that bloody campaign continue to surface. [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com BUDAGHERS - The 20-foot sandstone monument topped by a steel wagon wheel looked awfully lonely on a recent Saturday morning. Commuters who've driven past it enough [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ESPAÑOLA - Two big dogs recovered from surgery on blankets on the floor of the Española Humane Spay/Neuter Clinic on a recent busy day. Nearby, clinic [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ESPAÑOLA tanding near a wall plaque commemorating the Second Amendment, John Brunner said there has been no rush to buy firearms at his shop as a [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ALBUQUERQUE If you don't have a ringing sound running through your ears before taking a tour of the Telephone Museum of New Mexico, you might have [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com CERRILLOS You would have thought Joyce Davis and her four-legged companion Carlotta were getting ready for Halloween. Davis, clad in ranch hand attire, was gussying up [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Patricia Victor recalled a time in her childhood when she and her best friend were exploring a broken-down vehicle in a neighbor's backyard. They determined it [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com As the lulling sounds of The Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations' faded, Estevan Gonzales seamlessly shifted to his introduction of a talk show designed to 'support our [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com A New Mexico media investment group that purchased the Rio Grande Sun two years ago and the Artesia Daily Press last year has added three more [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com More than a dozen people were quietly practicing yoga in Santa Fe's downtown library one recent morning. Miles away at the same time, a guitar ensemble [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com When Theo walks into any classroom at the New Mexico School for the Deaf, he gets the best reception any visitor could hope for. miles. Hugs. [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ALBUQUERQUE - Lawrence Rhee's introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust went like this: As a U.S. Army soldier advancing south of Munich in the waning [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com State lawmakers got a pinch of good financial cheer from a Legislative Finance Committee report that said New Mexico collected over $350 million more in revenue [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Longtime National Park Service historian Richard West Sellars became an outspoken critic of the agency's policies that prioritized pleasing the public over protecting the species. His [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Placido Borrego knew the accolades and honors were coming, and he still felt he didn't deserve them. He received something akin to a ceremonial 21-gun salute [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com If you're coming to Nancy Zeckendorf's 90th birthday party, be on time. Zeckendorf - once a Girl Scout and always a Girl Scout - still adheres [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Looking at a nation desperately in need of hope, presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt said he was willing to try something - anything - to get [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Not quite a year ago, the staff and students of Tierra Encantada Charter School had to contend with an online threat of violence made toward the [...]

Byline: Daniel J. Chacón and Robert Nott dchacon@sfnewmexican.comrnott@sfnewmexican.com House Republicans have picked a conservative lawmaker known for his direct and sometimes combative style at the Roundhouse as their new minority [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com State officials have good news for motorists who have become weary of driving through construction zones on the La Bajada stretch of Interstate 25. There's a [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ROCIADA Geri Herrera calls her 36-acre property Rancho Castor, the Spanish name for beaver. he might as well have dubbed it Fort Castor. The property is [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Old Man Winter just doesn't want to leave Northern New Mexico. A storm system dropped 2 to 3 inches of snow Monday in the Sangre de [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Native American voting rights advocates are celebrating what they call a victory in a redistricting case that ended with an out-of-court settlement in San Juan County. [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Some people chase fire trucks. Some pursue tornadoes. But Santa Fe's Michael Zeiler and Polly White track a different kind of phenomena - a total solar [...]

Byline: Robert Nott and Carina Julig rnott@sfnewmexican.com cjulig@sfnewmexican.com Sisters Cora and Ruby Bixby grew up attending Santa Fe's First Presbyterian Church, where they have fond memories of making crafts in [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com CLINES CORNERS omewhere in the whoosh of the past 90 years, Clines Corners lost its apostrophe - but not its convenience, chutzpah or even sense of [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Gary Bland said a night does not pass that he does not relive every day of the year he spent in Vietnam. It was 1969, and [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com A gun buyback program in Farmington run by a gun violence prevention group last year did not violate laws requiring background checks on gun sales, the [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Where others see an empty space devoid of activity, Anita Lovato LaRan sees community. he envisions a plaza, with a communal center surrounded by small businesses. [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ALBUQUERQUE They turned out in the hundreds - maybe even more than 1,000 - to say farewell to a man viewed as a warrior and hero. [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hasn't given up on her plan to call lawmakers back to the Capitol to reconsider public safety bills that failed during this [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Felipe Cabeza de Vaca was many things - artist, muralist, plumber, contractor, political candidate, science nut and, perhaps most importantly, a character. He was, in fact, [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Israel-Hamas war Members of the Central Committee of the state Democratic Party pushing for a cessation to the conflict in Gaza are putting pressure on the [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Efforts to modernize the state's citizen Legislature are moving forward. Members of the Legislative Council voted 9-3 on Monday to approve a study plan that could [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ALBUQUERQUE By just about any measurement, it was a quiet day in the warning operations room at the National Weather Service office. You didn't need a [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Advocates pushing to build or buy a new facility to provide abortion services in the Las Cruces area say they are getting closer to making the [...]

Byline: Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón rnott@sfnewmexican.comdchacon@sfnewmexican.com In politics, it's never too early to start planning to win a race, and with primaries for state legislative offices coming up [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Albert Gomez said he wants Santa Fe's best-kept secret to no longer be a secret at all. The director of the Santa Fe Vet Center said [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Thanks to a car accident, John and Catherine Ann McDivitt became write-in candidates this year. That is, the guy who was supposed to deliver the ballot [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Driverless buses on the rural roadways of Northern New Mexico? While fully autonomous, rider-only vehicles are years away, test routes with operators in the driver seats [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com ALBUQUERQUE Roading it out to New Mexico 50 years ago in an effort to escape a likely career as a literature professor with patches on the [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com For young adults exiting the foster care system, the first step into adulthood may send them stumbling into a bottomless pit. Media reports and studies indicate [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Beware the Ides of March, New Mexico. No, you probably don't have to worry about being assassinated like Julius Caesar was that fateful March 15 in [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Working as a janitor led famed muralist Gilberto Guzmán to a life of art. He was 'cleaning up,' as he put it, at Woodbury University when [...]

Byline: Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com When Brett F. Woods died March 5 of colorectal cancer, he left behind a varied legacy that makes defining him by profession a challenge. He was [...]