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Cowboys see ranching challenges in Zuni Mountains amid virus
MCGAFFEY, N.M. (AP) — Two cowboys rode their horses on a pasture below the McKenzie Ridge in the Zuni Mountains a recent afternoon checking out the cows. They rode gently to avoid scaring the herd that was grazing at the center of a 320-acre p...
Parts of Navajo water pipeline near completion amid virus
CROWNPOINT, N.M. (AP) — Growing up without running water or electricity in rural New Mexico on the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation in the 1950s, Daniel Tso contracted tuberculosis at the age of 5 and had to spend the next five years of his c...
Ramah farmers continue to fight against numerous challenges
RAMAH, N.M. (AP) — After church service Sunday in late February, Tucker Simons drove with his wife and their two baby daughters to Ramah Lake, and they were surprised to see water up to the boat ramps. "I got excited," Simons, 33, a teacher at the P...
