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...

Michael Nye has traveled a long road through hospital administration to arrive in the COO chair at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Medical Health Services.

Nye started at a 300 bed hospital in his home of Reading, Pa. as a medical technologist.  Over the years he became a professional services supervisor, a vice president for professional services, a medical laboratory technician, a compliance officer, a laboratory director, a risk manager, and a privacy officer.

Most recently, before this latest change, Nye was the human resources director at RMCHCS, a position he took in August 2018.

Nye told the Gallup Sun that his is not the only spot in the hospital’s organizational chart that...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - The Navajo Police Department issued 274 citations during the Navajo Nation 57-hour weekend curfew, of those citations, 223 were for curfew violations and 51 were for traffic violations.

The police department’s efforts were in response to an extension issued April 29 by the Navajo Health Command Operations Center to extend the weekend curfew for two additional weekends in May.

This is the Navajo Police Department’s fourth 57-hour weekend curfew operation. The operation consisted of a saturation patrol in the eastern Navajo region. A noticeable increase of traffic on Highway 264 between Window Rock, Ariz., and Gallup was observed, although a majority of those...