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PRESCOTT — As Prescott City Council members see it, the Prescott Regional Airport and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are critical links in filling the needs in an ongoing worldwide pilot shortage. During recent discussions about updating the Airport Layout Plan, council members expressed their support for the extensive improvements, past and future, at the airport. The updated plan was ...Read More
Apr. 25—With continuing construction worker shortages across the country, New Mexico emerged as the No. 2 state for construction job growth by percentage for its 3.3 percent increase from February to March, the Associated General Contractors of America reported in its monthly state construction employment rankings. New Mexico added 1,700 construction jobs from February to March to reach 52,700 ...Read More
A Boston-based developer is exploring the potential for what would be Arizona’s biggest wind farm on an expanse of high desert in Pinal County north of Oracle, about 30 miles north of Tucson. But the company’s plan to erect up to 83 wind turbines at the site known as Oak Wells has already drawn opposition from local ranchers who say the wind farm would harm rangeland as well as the environment ...Read More
Apr. 15—Near the southwest edge of Las Vegas on South Fort Apache Road, construction crews widen the roads to accommodate more traffic. A newly built neighborhood stands across the street from the latest — and part of many more — developments to come. But the new build won't be priced as high as other complexes in Las Vegas, where rents have increased by about 25% in the past year. The ...Read More
Northrop Grumman Corp. broke ground Tuesday on a new 25,000-square-foot building at the MaxQ at Kirtland mixed-use development in Albuquerque, according to the company. The building is designed to "support space systems engineering and integrated mission operations services to Kirtland Air Force Base and other U.S. military customers," a company spokeswoman wrote in a news release announcing ...Read More
In what would be an unprecedented move, the U.S. Interior Department is considering an action that would create a possible, immediate cutback in Colorado River water supplies to Arizona, California and Nevada: holding back nearly a half million acre-feet of water it had planned to release this year from Lake Powell to Lake Mead. In a letter Friday to all seven Colorado River Basin states, ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container discovered a small amount of radioactive liquid inside it. There was no indication of airborne contamination and testing of workers’ hands and feet turned up no contamination after the discovery was made late ...Read More
Apr. 9—High-paying jobs for the region will come with construction of the Ute Water Project as it picks up its pace after over $177 million in federal funds has been promised for the venture. The term "good, high-paying jobs" was bandied about by officials as word of the coming infrastructure money made its rounds but few said exactly what the "good, high paying jobs" are. Orlando Ortega has a ...Read More
Nonprofits across Tucson and Southern Arizona looking to go solar can apply for free photovoltaic installations under a program set to launch next week. The Nonprofit Solar Project was developed by the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA) in partnership with local donors, Tucson Electric Power and Solar United Neighbors, a nonprofit that has been organizing buying cooperatives to ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A watchdog group is suing the National Nuclear Security Administration over its failure to release public records related to the U.S. government’s plans to manufacture key components for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., covers more than a dozen records requests made since 2017 by the Los Alamos ...Read More