In attempting to fill the vacancy left by outgoing president Sheila Ortego, Santa Fe Community College has narrowed down the field of applicants to six promising candidates—though a closer look at some casts their accomplishments in a different light.

On an anti-rape video, file cabinet o'drugs, and NM ghost town.

It’s an entrenched piece of pop-science wisdom: Overuse of antibiotics in medicine is the reason bacteria evolve into antibiotic-resistant superbugs. But deep inside four-million-year-old Lechugilla cave in southern New Mexico, a population of isolated bacteria are calling that notion into serious question.

When Gov. Susana Martinez gave her first State of the State address on Jan. 1, 2011, she emphasized two priorities: improving education and keeping businesses in New Mexico. But SFR has found that, in the 15 months since Martinez took office, the New Mexico Public Education Department has paid out more than three times as much in professional service contracts to out-of-state education contractors than to those located in New Mexico. What’s more, it’s unclear whether some of them have produced tangible results.

 On SFPD's boob fetish, man who stores sewage, and swan-icide.

Last week, a tourist stopped in to the Hobbs Chamber of Commerce looking for a local attraction: a “ghost town” used to test futuristic technologies. Chamber of Commerce employee Tiffany Bishop had disappointing news for the visitor: The ghost town doesn’t exist—yet. But on April 3, the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation took a big step closer to fruition.

On the evening of March 28, Sheila Louis walked into Christ Church Santa Fe with no place to stay, no money, untreated back pain from a recent car accident and overflowing anger about her situation.

A little over a year ago, Alicia Gonzales-Lamonda was arrested for shoplifting and other charges. She entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to a year on electronic monitoring. As it turns out, that may have been the least of her worries.

On the morning of Feb. 13, Joni Arends, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, was sitting in her downtown Santa Fe office when a flurry of emails suddenly flooded her inbox. President Barack Obama had just released his fiscal year 2013 budget, and it dealt a serious blow to a project against which Arends and others have been campaigning for years. The budget recommended that not a single penny go to construction of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement nuclear facility, a proposed plutonium pit manufacturing plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The plan: Bring down the state’s sky-high liquor license prices by making more licenses available or by making existing licenses harder to lose.