The Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation and Gallup Land Partners announced a new rail tenant for the Gallup Energy Logistics Park Oct. 24.

Stone Material Handling, of Saginaw, Mich., is the new tenant. Sister company Stone Transport will secure approximately 11,000 linear feet of the park’s current 20,000 linear foot rail capacity, complementing current tenant GCC Energy, of Hesperus, Colo.

Per their website, GELP is a 2,500-acre rail-served industrial park located to serve light manufacturing, storage, trans loading, and logistics industries of Northwest New Mexico, the San Juan Energy Basin, and the Four Corners Region.

“We are thrilled to welcome our new tenant...

ALBUQUERQUE - New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulose Oliver announced that she was ending her campaign for U.S. Senate on Oct. 29.

At that time she released the following statement:

“I’m a fighter. I’ve fought to protect New Mexico’s elections system from foreign interference; I’ve taken on corruption in state government; and I’ve twice stood up to President Trump when he demanded New Mexicans’ personal voter information. I’m not afraid of a tough fight.

That’s why I decided to run for the U.S. Senate. I knew that someone needed to stand up and fight for our progressive values.

When I entered the race for U.S. Senate, I was the only candidate supporting...

Senator Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., has announced his support of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s call for a federal investigation into conditions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in New Mexico.

In his statement Oct. 30, Heinrich said, “The deeply troubling reports of mistreatment and poor conditions at ICE detention facilities warrant a federal investigation. We need to get to the bottom of what’s taking place at these facilities and ensure anyone held in ICE’s custody is treated humanely and in accordance to the law.”

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HOUMA, La. - Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez was honored to be joined by the members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council, Speaker Seth Damon, Chief Justice JoAnn B. Jayne, former Speaker LoRenzo Bates, and Navajo Code Talker Peter McDonald on Oct. 30, during the U.S. Navy’s Authentication of the Keel Ceremony of the U.S. Navy’s first of class towing and salvage vessel, “USNS Navajo (T-ATS 6)” at the Civic Center in Houma, La.

The keel was said to be “truly and fairly laid” as it was authenticated by Nez, Damon, and Jocelyn Billy, who signed their initials into the keel plate that is the symbolic backbone of a ship. The keel plate will be fastened within the hull of the...