Gallup Sun

Rural hospitals got some much-needed assistance from the state Legislature this year, in the form of bills that will help with short- and long-term funding. But that may have cost local governments: there’s only so much money to go around, so other local priorities got less than they hoped for or may have to wait another year.

“All the money we got was for the hospital, basically,” McKinley County Manager Anthony Dimas said. “Our number one priority was to save our hospital, so that’s what they gave us.”

Most of the funding designated in the session will become available July 1 with the start of the 2025 fiscal year.

 

ABOUT THE BILLS

Passage of Senate Bill 17, the...

A man has died after being struck by a train in the area of Third Street and U.S. Hwy. 66 March 14.




Metro Dispatch received the call around 1:45 pm.




When Gallup Police officers arrived at the scene they met with multiple witnesses who said that the man had tried to climb over one of the train’s couplings, which is what holds the train’s cars together, while the train was stopped.




But when the train began to move again, the man was caught underneath the locomotive.






He was pronounced dead at the scene.




In an interview with the Sun Gallup Police Chief Erin Toadlena-Pablo said that the man had no identification on him at the time of the incident. An autopsy...

OAK SPRINGS, Ariz. — The 25th Navajo Nation Council Delegate Brenda Jesus joined officials from the Oak Springs Chapter during a groundbreaking ceremony on Feb. 23, to celebrate the groundbreaking for construction of the Oak Springs Chapter House kitchen addition and renovation project.

“This project is a long time coming and will provide much needed renovations and additions to the Oak Springs Chapter House,” Jesus (Oaksprings, St. Michaels), who represents the community, said. “I commend the Navajo Nation Capital Projects Management department and the efforts of Andy Thomas and Leo Barber.”

Jesus acknowledged the efforts of the Oak Springs veterans who worked with the...

UPDATE: Dominick Tsosie has been located and is safe.

The Gallup Police is asking for the public's help in finding a man named Dominick Tsosie, 24.

Tsosie is six feet and one inch tall, and weighs about 195 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.

He was last seen wearing a brown Ariat t-shirt, a black Ariat jacket, and black boots. His last known location is the Speedway at 701 U.S. Hwy. 491.

Anyone with information on Tsosie's whereabouts is asked to call Metro Dispatch at (505) 722-2002 or 911.