Farmington Local News

Our Shared Currents is a 3-part series exploring human relationships along Southwest Colorado’s waterways. These stories of unexpected commonalities go beyond traditional boundaries and competing demands. In this first episode, we learn how water systems and local wildlife connect the Rio Grande and Colorado River basins. The San Juan-Chama Project, a major transmountain diversion originating in t...

Before mountain biking caught on, Farmington already had a race. About 25 riders lined up for the first Road Apple Rally in 1981. More than four decades later, the Road Apple Rally is billed as the oldest continually running mountain bike race in the United States. By Tanner Waite  Watch this story at LNN.news This story is sponsored by Durango Motor Company and Home2 Suites by Hilton .

The Aztec Fall Festival and Car Show fills Minimum Park on Saturday, Oct. 10, with a parade, live music and more than 100 cars. Farmington High and Piedra Vista meet in a key district soccer matchup Wednesday, Oct. 7. And, later that evening, singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid performs at the Farmington Library. By Tanner Waite  Watch this story at LNN.news This story is sponsored by Sunray Park and...

Every hot air balloon that goes up has to come down, and in Farmington, the neighbors who step off their porches to help pack it away are part of the draw.  The Four Corners Balloon Rally returned this fall with ascensions and evening glows. Friday's weather grounded pilots, but balloons took to the sky on Saturday. Learn more at farmingtonnm.gov . By Tanner Waite Watch this story at LNN.news...

Welcome to Christ the Rock Lutheran Church in Farmington. Our goal is to share the incredible news about Jesus with all people of the Four Corners. Join us! Sunday Mornings: 10:30 a.m. Education Hour for All Ages: 9:15-10:15 a.m. Wednesday Evening Bible Growth Group: 6:30-7:30 p.m. [LNN Branded Content]

Jaynes Corp. marked 50 years in the Four Corners, celebrating the 1976 opening of its Farmington office with subcontractors, community partners and the local institutions it helped build. The employee-owned commercial contracting business builds schools, offices and retail space.  "If you step foot anywhere in this community, there's probably a 50% chance you're stepping on some Jay...

The Four Corners Balloon Rally runs Friday through Sunday, Sept. 25-27, with morning ascensions and evening glows at San Juan College and the Farmington Civic Center. Farmington High's volleyball team hosts Miyamura Tuesday night. Piedra Vista's homecoming football game against Santa Fe is Friday, Sept. 25. And the Downtown Makers Market closes out its season Thursday, Sept. 24, at Orcha...

Off-road enthusiasts from across the country filled Farmington for 4 Corners 4x4 Week, a September run of events built around trail rides, a vendor show and a national rock crawling championship. Drivers tackled everything from beginner routes to some of the toughest obstacles in the region at Chokecherry Canyon, while the Four Corners Vendor Show drew Jeep and truck owners, side-by-side drivers a...

Four Corners 4x4 Week runs through Sunday, Sept. 13 with competitions, vendors and raffles. The Farmington High School football team faces Cleveland High at Hutchison Stadium on Friday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. in what could be their toughest 6A matchup this season. Aztec's Unison Festival brings five days of live music, yoga and wellness events to Tico Time River Resort along the Animas River sta...

Farmington City Manager Shaña Reeves shares her hometown pride and goals for Farmington.  Reeves grew up in Farmington, graduated from Farmington High School in 1999 and left on a full-ride academic and athletic scholarship to New Mexico State University. She moved back in 2004 to take a job as the city's aquatics director and became Farmington's city manager on Jan. 20, 2026. Now, Reeve...

A former Farmington grocery store has become a hub for local youth sports, thanks to the Pennington family. The Penningtons have owned the building since the 1980s and began converting it into practice space for their children's volleyball and baseball teams before opening it up to the wider community. Today, Empire Athletics offers batting cages, volleyball and pickleball courts, a yoga stud...

For more than 60 years, Farmington has hosted the Connie Mack World Series , one of  the nation's top amateur baseball tournaments for players ages 16 to 18. Many of those players go on to compete in college and, in some cases, the major leagues.  In 1975, tournament organizers started the foster parent plan to ease the cost of travel for visiting teams. Since then, local families have opened...

Aztec Riverside BMX aims to break ground this October on a two-acre, city-owned lot for a new BMX track, giving local children a home course instead of long drives to Durango or Albuquerque to race. The nonprofit is working with USA BMX to design the track to national standards. Beyond race day, organizers plan a loaner bike fleet, Strider races for the youngest riders and a school partnership tea...

Table to Farm Compost is a Durango based climate activist business that has been turning food scraps into compost since 2016. Co-owner Monique DiGiorgio was recently named the 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year by Southwest Colorado Rocks for her leadership in growing the company to more than 800 subscribers and achieving the highest level of compost certification in Colorado. The company offers curbsi...

Living in southwest Colorado means the risk of fire and flood is never far from home. First responders and firefighters are currently fighting the Rio Blanco Fire, located 12 miles south of Pagosa Springs. The lightning-caused fire started on Tuesday, July 28, and as of Thursday evening, it has grown to 781 acres with 0% containment.  Nearly a year ago, communities just west of town experienced a...

Brett Lanier is a born-and-raised Aztec local who was elected city commissioner in 2025 and recently chosen as the city's newest mayor. Under the city's commission-manager government, Lanier and four fellow commissioners set policy and direct a city manager who handles day-to-day operations. His priorities include strengthening infrastructure and supporting local jobs and businesses to k...

Analyss Benally grew up in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation and went on to play Division I basketball at San Jose State before launching her professional basketball career in Europe. Today, her nonprofit, AB Five Basketball, brings free camps and clinics to Native youth across the Southwest. This summer, AB Five returned to Shiprock with volunteer coaches, including former Los Angeles Lakers guard An...

Under the sandstone bluffs of Farmington, a professional musical theater company draws record crowds with its production of "Grease." Artistic Director Randy West sits down to talk about how Four Corners Musical Theater grew from a request by city leaders seven years ago into New Mexico's only professional musical theater company, and why he says nights at Sandstone, rainbows and al...

Business owners and community members gathered in Aztec on Friday, June 5, for the State of Aztec Breakfast, an event that gives local residents a rundown of what's happening in the city and the wider region. Speakers from across San Juan County delivered a consistent message: the four corners is a great place to live and to do business. One of the event's central themes was keeping youn...

The Ute Mountain Roundup returned to Cortez for its 96th year bringing thousands of visitors and top PRCA cowboys and cowgirls to the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. From the board members who organize the event year round to the stock contractor who drives twelve hours from Wyoming to bring the animals, this is a look at what it takes to put on one of the biggest events in Montezuma County. By Sadi...

The Farmington Public Library hosted New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston as part of its ongoing effort to connect the Four Corners region to the wider world. Preston, who lives part of the year in New Mexico, visited the library with support from the Farmington Public Library Foundation, which covered his speaker fee. The library, open to anyone who visits Farmington regardless of ho...

Madison Smith moved back to San Juan County after nine years and found a community short on resources for young families. She opened Piper's Play Cafe in Aztec, a sensory-inclusive indoor toddler play space offering free-range exploration for kids and a rare moment of rest for parents. The cafe includes a slide structure, dramatic play areas, a pretend kitchen and market, free snacks, free dr...

A San Juan County program called UmattR is putting high school seniors in front of younger kids, not with lectures, but with their own stories. The program gives $1,000 scholarships to selected seniors who then spend the year visiting elementary and middle schools across the county. This cycle drew more than 300 applicants; 24 made the cut. Together they log about 650 service hours. The younger ki...

Music in the Mountains is celebrating its 40th anniversary season this summer, running July 9th through August 2nd across the Four Corners region. What started in 1987 with just 11 musicians has grown into a world-class orchestra featuring performers from around the globe. This year's festival features free community concerts from Durango to Bayfield, Ignacio, Pagosa, and Mancos, along with f...

Farmington Museum is hosting the Smithsonian's "Lowrider Culture in the United States" traveling exhibit through July 25, 2026. The museum added its own touches: three lowrider cars, three motorcycles and artwork inside, plus a Park and Chill car show in the parking lot with live music and food vendors. Museum director Nathan Augustine says the event brought out a broad slice of the...