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Australia sizzles in blistering heat wave with temperatures as high as 120 degrees

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Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 122 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave even as bitter cold covered much of the U.S.

The rural towns of Hopetoun and Walpeup in Victoria state registered preliminary highs of 120 degrees that if confirmed overnight would top records set on the day in 2009 when 173 people were killed in the state’s devastating Black Saturday bushfires.

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Fans cool down in front of water misters at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on  Jan. 27, 2026.

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No casualties were reported from Tuesday’s heat wave, but Victoria authorities urged caution as three forest fires burned out of control.

Melbourne, the state’s largest city, also came close to its hottest day. Nowhere perhaps was the searing heat more evident than at Melbourne Park, where the usual crowds thronging outside the Australian Open tennis tournament dwindled to a ghost town as temperatures soared.

Inside, organizers enacted extreme heat protocols, forcing closure of the retractable roofs over the main arenas and postponement of matches on the uncovered outer courts. During Tuesday’s quarterfinal between Aryna Sabalenka and Iva Jovic – the last match played under scorching sun – the players held ice packs to their heads and portable fans to their faces during breaks in play.

Photographers shooting the match were supplied with cushions by organizers to avoid heat-related injuries when they sat down and covered their cameras with towels to prevent the devices malfunctioning in the heat or burning their hands. Fans lined up to stand in front of giant misting fans or sought shelter in air-conditioned areas of the venue.

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Spectators in the stands use towels to cover from the heat during a third round match between Russia’s Karen Khachanov and Italy’s Luciano Darderi in the Australian Open tennis tournament on Jan. 24, 2027.

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Crowds at the event, which has registered record-breaking turnout days so far, dropped from 50,000 from Monday’s daytime session to 21,000 on Tuesday as people heeded health warnings from officials and stayed home.

Temperatures were expected to drop Wednesday, although the heat wave was due to linger until the weekend. The heat wave followed another earlier this month amid one of Australia’s hottest summers ever.

On Monday, parts of New South Wales and South Australia states hit record temperatures, some exceeding records set during a destructive summer of forest fires in 2019. At that time as now, temperatures approached 122 degrees in some places.

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Former TURNSTILE Guitarist BRADY EBERT Accuses Band Of “Pandering” & Misusing Charity Funds

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Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert has publicly fired shots at his old bandmates, leveling serious accusations in a heated social media exchange that’s shed a little more light on his departure from the band.

The comments surfaced after a post from Turnstile‘s Instagram story featuring a sign reading “abolish ICE” was reshared by Jesea Lee on Instagram (also captured here). Ebert responded in the comment section, accusing the band of performative politics and ethical indifference.

“Lmao, no one in turnstile cares at all about ethics or social issues in general, they’re just pandering to their audience,” Ebert wrote.

He then alleged misconduct tied to one of the band’s early benefit shows: “At turnstiles first free show they did they claimed all proceeds go to healthcare for the homeless, we raised 10000 dollars but i watched Brendan steal 4000 dollars from that and claim he needed to ‘pay the merch bill’ which was false.”

Ebert‘s remarks immediately reignited discussion around his departure from Turnstile in 2022, which was widely understood to be contentious. Around the time of the split, reports circulated that drummer Daniel Fang had filed a restraining order against Ebert — though few concrete details have ever been made public.

Addressing that episode directly in a follow-up comment on the same post, Ebert pushed back hard against what he described as misinformation.

“Also my friends filed a restraining order and guess what, they had two laywers with them abd I showed up to court bt myself and the judge DENIED the restraining order,” he wrote. “Because there was no statute in the laws about what qualifies for a restraining order that they were able to meet the requirements of.”

He continued: “In other words they had no reason to file it and it was all over text messages which they showed the judge and the judge agreed with me without me even having to testify so next time before u spread bullshit misinformation say that shit to my face.”

Neither Turnstile nor their representatives have responded publicly to Ebert‘s claims.

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FAA Failures Created Conditions for Deadly Reagan Airport Crash, NTSB Says

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Agency officials recommended more training for air-traffic controllers and improved collision-avoidance systems on aircraft.



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Joe Burrow ‘not going anywhere,’ says Bengals teammate Chase Brown

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While Christmas was just over a month ago, Cincinnati Bengals running back Chase Brown has delivered a late gift to Bengals fans in the form of a message regarding quarterback Joe Burrow and his future with the franchise. 

Some of Burrow’s comments near the end of the regular season has led to speculation about his desire to remain in Cincinnati, who is coming off a third consecutive non-playoff season. Burrow is signed through the 2029 season, but that hasn’t stopped unfounded rumblings about whether or not he will seek a trade or even retire before his contract expires. 

Brown, however, has made it clear that Bengals fans have nothing to worry about. 

“Joe’s not going anywhere,” Brown told CBS Sports. “I think that was totally blown out of proportion. It was definitely a good talking point for people. … It gave the media a lot to talk about and probably made [Burrow’s] Twitter notifications go off, but Joe’s not going anywhere.” 

“You heard it from my wing man right there,” added Bengals wideout Tee Higgins. 

Speaking of wing man, Higgins and Brown are part of Bounty‘s Wingman program in the run up to the Super Bowl, a game that Higgins, Burrow and the rest of the Bengals nearly won four years ago. 

Against the Rams in Super Bowl LVI, Higgins caught a pair of touchdown passes that included a 75-yard score on a throw from Burrow that gave the Bengals a second half lead. Cincinnati ultimately came up short in the game, however, before losing another close game to the Kansas City Chiefs in the following year’s AFC title game.

Injuries to Burrow have largely contributed to the Bengals’ recent struggles. He missed the final seven games of the 2023 season after suffering a wrist injury that required surgery. This past season, Burrow missed nine games after injuring his toe in Week 2. The Bengals, who were 2-0 at the time of Burrow’s injury, went just 1-8 during his absence. 

Burrow returned to the lineup in Week 13 and led Cincinnati to an upset win over Baltimore that kept their flickering playoff hopes alive. That hope was quickly extinguished, however, after the Bengals lost their next two games that included a 24-0 loss to the Ravens in what was arguably the worst game of Burrow’s career. 

While their playoff hopes were dashed, Cincinnati still put together two of their most impressive performances of the season in wins over the Dolphins and Cardinals. And while their season ended with a loss to the Browns, the Bengals were nonetheless a much better team upon Burrow’s return, especially on offense. 

“We picked up some momentum at the end of the season that we can carry into this coming season,” said Brown, who rushed for a career-high 1,019 yards this season. “There’s a lot that we went through this year. We lost our quarterback. We had multiple different quarterbacks, and that’s hard on everybody on offense and definitely hard on receivers. 

“When you look at the season as a whole, we went through a lot. So I look forward to having a full season with everybody. Not that that’s promised, but that’s what I look forward to.”

Adding insult to injury was the fact that the AFC North — a division that had all four teams finish with a winning record in 2023 — had an extremely down year. The Steelers (the only team the Bengals defeated during Burrow’s absence) were the only team to post a winning record. Had Burrow stayed healthy, it’s quite possible that the Bengals would have won the North going away. 

“I think the main thing is we always want to be in control of our playoff hopes,” Brown said. “The position that we were in, we didn’t have any control the last part of the season, so there were a lot of things that had to happen to go our way. It is hard to see it play out that way, though, because we know what we would have been capable of if we had made it into the playoffs.”

In addition to having Burrow and one of the NFL’s best group of skill players, the Bengals also have the division’s longest-tenured head coach in Zac Taylor, who was given a public vote of confidence from team owner Mike Brown this offseason. 

Will that stability give the Bengals an edge this season?

“I don’t know if it can give us one,” Higgins said, “but I hope so.”





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DWI Dismissal Scandal: 306 drunk driving cases dropped. Did the drivers reoffend?

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of accused drunk drivers in the Albuquerque metro area saw their pending criminal cases dropped because the officers who arrested them were tied to a criminal conspiracy. In this KRQE Investigates report, we dig into what those drivers did with their second chance. This is part of the fallout from the […]



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Spain to grant legal status to thousands of immigrants lacking permission

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BARCELONA, Spain — Spain’s government announced Tuesday it will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization, the latest example of how the country has bucked a trend toward increasingly harsh immigration policies seen in the United States and much of Europe.

Spain’s Minister of Migration, Elma Saiz, announced the extraordinary measure following the weekly cabinet meeting. She said her government will amend existing immigration laws by expedited decree to grant immigrants who are living in Spain without authorization legal residency of up to one year as well as permission to work.

The permits will apply to those who arrived in Spain before Dec. 31, 2025, and who can prove they have lived in Spain for at least five months. They must also prove they have no criminal record.

“Today is a historic day,” Saiz told journalists during a press conference. The measure could benefit between 500,000 and 800,000 people estimated by different organizations to be living in the shadows of Spanish society. Many are Latin American or African immigrants working in the agricultural, tourism or service sectors, backbones of Spain’s growing economy.

The expedited decree bypasses a similar bill that has stalled in parliament. Saiz said she expects immigrants will be able to start applying for their legal status from April once the decree comes into force.

The Spanish government’s move came as a surprise to many after a last-minute deal between the ruling Socialist Party and the left-wing Podemos party in exchange for parliamentary support to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wobbly government.

The news was welcomed by hundreds of migrant rights groups and prominent Catholic associations who had campaigned and obtained 700,000 signatures for a similar initiative that was admitted for debate in Congress in 2024 but was unlikely to get enough votes to pass.

As other nations, many emboldened by the Trump administration, move to restrict immigration and asylum worldwide, Spain has taken the opposite direction with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his ministers often extolling the benefits of immigration to the economy.

The Iberian nation has taken in millions of people from South America and Africa in recent years, with the vast majority entering the country legally.



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Jo Dee Messina Reveals Her Father, Vincent, Has Died

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Jo Dee Messina‘s father has died. The singer shared the news to social media with a very touching video memory.

  • Jo Dee Messina is best known for songs like “Heads Carolina, Tails California” and “I’m Alright.”
  • Her last studio album came over a decade ago but she’s released a couple of singles since.
  • On social media, she’s been very active lately and recently shared video and photos of her inspiring body transformation.

Vincent Messina was 94 years old when he died on Jan. 23, 2026.

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Jo Dee Messina Reveals Her Father Died

“November 28, 1931 – January 23, 2026 we lost my Dad last night,” she wrote on Jan. 24. “It doesn’t matter how old you are, it’s never easy to lose a parent. So much more to his story.”

The video Messina chose finds her father singing a song called “Daddy’s Little Girl” from his place at the dinner table. It’s humorous and touching as he balances the levity of the moment with the pure expression of his heart.

Six years ago, Messina shared a similar note on social media about her mother.

Jo Dee Messina’s Mother Died In 2020

Jo Dee Messina’s mother Mary died on April 19, 2020. A post shared to the singer’s Instagram didn’t reveal her cause of death, but she’d previously been open about her health problems.

“God knew exactly what he was doing when he made me my mother’s daughter,” Messina said. “She loved me perfectly in a way that only she could do. She was my encouragement and she believed in me at times when no one else did. She understood the way I thought and she understood the way I felt. What a blessing she was to me, my entire life.”

Then, and now, country stars were quick to offer condolences. It doesn’t look like Vincent Messina’s death will affect her touring plans as a Jan. 29 date in West Virginia is still listed as active on her official website.

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Just weeks into the new year, country fans have already mourned the deaths of a few of their favorite musicians and other large-looming figures of pop culture. Keep reading to remember the singers, musicians, actors and other notable figures we’ve lost so far in 2026.

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ADM to Pay $40 Million to Settle SEC Accounting Fraud Claims

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Federal regulator also sued the former CFO, accusing him of directing the misleading transactions.



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Big Ten schedule release for 2026 college football season

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The Big Ten announced its 2026 college football schedule for each of its 18 members Wednesday.

One big change to this upcoming season’s schedule is that each Big Ten team — except for USC which will have two — will only have one bye week, compared to the past couple of seasons where teams received two. We’ll also see new head coaches at Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State and UCLA in 2026. New Michigan State head coach Pat Fitzgerald will be hosting his former team, the Northwestern Wildcats, in Week 7 in a must-see matchup.

While Oregon was able to escape Indiana in its schedule this season, the Ducks will have to travel to Columbus in a massive conference game against the Buckeyes. And the Indiana Hoosiers, the 2025-26 national champions who are coming off a historic 2025 season, will host Ohio State in a Big Ten title game rematch in Week 7.

Here are the team-by-team schedules for 2026:

Sept. 5: vs. UAB

Sept. 12: vs. Duke

Sept. 19: vs. SIU

Sept. 26: at Ohio State

Oct. 3: vs. Purdue

Oct. 10: at Michigan State

Oct. 24: vs. Oregon

Oct. 31: at Maryland

Nov. 7: vs. Nebraska

Nov. 14: at UCLA

Nov. 21: vs. Iowa

Nov. 28: vs. Northwestern

Sept. 5: vs. North Texas

Sept. 12: vs. Howard

Sept. 19: vs. Western Kentucky

Sept. 26: vs. Northwestern

Oct. 3: at Rutgers

Oct. 10: at Nebraska

Oct. 17: vs. Ohio State

Oct. 24: at Michigan

Oct. 31: vs. Minnesota

Nov. 14: vs. USC

Nov. 21: at Washington

Nov. 28: vs. Purdue

Sept. 5: vs. Northern Illinois

Sept. 12: vs. Iowa State

Sept. 29: vs. Northern Iowa

Sept. 26: at Michigan

Oct. 3: vs. Ohio State

Oct. 10: at Washington

Oct. 24: at Minnesota

Oct. 31: vs. Wisconsin

Nov. 7: at Northwestern

Nov. 14: vs. Purdue

Nov. 21: at Illinois

Nov. 27: vs. Nebraska

Sept. 5: vs. Howard

Sept. 12: at UConn

Sept. 19: vs. Virginia Tech

Sept. 26: vs. UCLA

Oct. 3: at Nebraska

Oct. 10: at Ohio State

Oct. 17: vs. Rutgers

Oct. 31: vs. Illinois

Nov. 7: at Purdue

Nov. 14: vs. Wisconsin

Nov. 21: at USC

Nov. 28: vs. Penn State

Sept. 5: vs. Western Michigan

Sept. 12: vs. Oklahoma

Sept. 19: vs. UTEP

Sept. 26: vs. Iowa

Oct. 3: at Minnesota

Oct. 17: vs. Penn State

Oct. 24: vs. Indiana

Oct. 31: at Rutgers

Nov. 7: vs. Michigan State

Nov. 14: at Oregon

Nov. 21: vs. UCLA

Nov. 28: at Ohio State

Sept. 5: vs. Toledo

Sept. 12: vs. Eastern Michigan

Sept. 19: at Notre Dame

Sept. 26: vs. Nebraska

Oct. 3: at Wisconsin

Oct. 10: vs. Illinois

Oct. 17: vs. Northwestern

Oct. 24: at UCLA

Nov. 7: at Michigan

Nov. 14: vs. Washington

Nov. 21: vs. Oregon

Nov. 28: at Rutgers

Sept. 3: vs. Eastern Illinois

Sept. 12: vs. Mississippi State

Sept. 19: vs. Akron

Sept. 26: at Washington

Oct. 3: vs. Michigan

Oct. 10: at Purdue

Oct. 24: vs. Iowa

Oct. 31: at Indiana

Nov. 7: vs. UCLA

Nov. 14: at Penn State

Nov. 21: vs. Northwestern

Nov. 28: at Wisconsin

Sept. 5: vs. Ohio

Sept. 12: vs. Bowling Green

Sept. 19: vs. North Dakota

Sept. 26: at Michigan State

Oct. 3: vs. Maryland

Oct. 10: vs. Indiana

Oct. 17: at Oregon

Oct. 31: vs. Washington

Nov. 7: at Illinois

Nov. 14: at Rutgers

Nov. 21: vs. Ohio State

Nov. 27: at Iowa

Sept. 5: vs. South Dakota State

Sept. 19: vs. Colorado

Sept. 26: at Indiana

Oct. 3: vs. Penn State

Oct. 10: vs. Ball State

Oct. 17: at Michigan State

Oct. 24: vs. Rutgers

Oct. 31: at Oregon

Nov. 7: vs. Iowa

Nov. 14: at Ohio State

Nov. 21: at Minnesota

Nov. 28: vs. Illinois

Sept. 5: vs. Ball State

Sept. 12: at Texas

Sept. 19: vs. Kent State

Sept. 26: vs. Illinois

Oct. 3: at Iowa

Oct. 10: vs. Maryland

Oct. 17: at Indiana

Oct. 31: at USC

Nov. 7: vs. Oregon

Nov. 14: vs. Northwestern

Nov. 21: at Nebraska

Nov. 28: vs. Michigan

Sept. 5: vs. Boise State

Sept. 12: at Oklahoma State

Sept. 19: vs. Portland State

Sept. 26: at USC

Oct. 10: vs. UCLA

Oct. 17: vs. Nebraska

Oct. 24: at Illinois

Oct. 31: vs. Northwestern

Nov. 7: at Ohio State

Nov. 14: vs. Michigan

Nov. 21: at Michigan State

Nov. 28: vs. Washington

Sept. 5: vs. Marshall

Sept. 12: at Temple

Sept. 19: vs. Buffalo

Sept. 26: vs. Wisconsin

Oct. 3: at Northwestern

Oct. 10: vs. USC

Oct. 17: at Michigan

Oct. 31: vs. Purdue

Nov. 7: at Washington

Nov. 14: vs. Minnesota

Nov. 21: vs. Rutgers

Nov. 28: at Maryland

Sept. 5: vs. Indiana State

Sept. 12: vs. Wake Forest

Sept. 19: at UCLA

Sept. 26: vs. Notre Dame

Oct. 3: at Illinois

Oct. 10: vs. Minnesota

Oct. 17: vs. Washington

Oct. 31: at Penn State

Nov. 7: vs. Maryland

Nov. 14: at Iowa

Nov. 21: vs. Wisconsin

Nov. 28: at Indiana

Sept. 3: vs. UMass

Sept. 11: at Boston College

Sept. 19: vs. USC

Sept. 26: vs. Howard

Oct. 3: vs. Indiana

Oct. 17: at Maryland

Oct. 24: at Northwestern

Oct. 31: vs. Michigan

Nov. 7: at Wisconsin

Nov. 14: vs. Nebraska

Nov. 21: at Penn State

Nov. 28: vs. Michigan State

Sept. 5: at Cal

Sept. 12: vs. San Diego State

Sept. 19: vs. Purdue

Sept. 26: at Maryland

Oct. 10: at Oregon

Oct. 17: vs. Wisconsin

Oct. 24: vs. Michigan State

Oct. 31: vs. Nevada

Nov. 7: at Minnesota

Nov. 14: vs. Illinois

Nov. 21: at Michigan

Nov. 28: vs. USC

Sept. 5: vs. Fresno State

Sept. 12: vs. Louisiana

Sept. 19: at Rutgers

Sept. 26: vs. Oregon

Oct. 3: vs. Washington

Oct. 10: at Penn State

Oct. 24: at Wisconsin

Oct. 31: vs. Ohio State

Nov. 14: at Indiana

Nov. 21: vs. Maryland

Nov. 28: at UCLA

Sept. 5: vs. Washington State

Sept. 12: vs. Utah State

Sept. 19: vs. Eastern Washington

Sept. 26: vs. Minnesota

Oct. 3: at USC

Oct. 10: vs. Iowa

Oct. 17: at Purdue

Oct. 31: at Nebraska

Nov. 7: vs. Penn State

Nov. 14: at Michigan State

Nov. 21: vs. Indiana

Nov. 28: at Oregon

Sept. 6: vs. Notre Dame*

Sept. 12: vs. Western Illinois

Sept. 19: vs. Eastern Michigan

Sept. 26: at Penn State

Oct. 3: vs. Michigan State

Oct. 17: at UCLA

Oct. 24: vs. USC

Oct. 31: at Iowa

Nov. 7: vs. Rutgers

Nov. 14: at Maryland

Nov. 21: at Purdue

Nov. 28: vs. Minnesota

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New affordable housing complex breaks ground in Santa Fe

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The amount of affordable housing in the state’s capital city will be getting a big boost.Earlier this month, ground was broken for the Turquoise Trail affordable housing community on Route 14 south of Interstate 25, a 312-apartment complex planned by Dominium Development LLC and being built by the Weir Building Company of Fenton, Minnesota.The development will consist of 13 three-story buildings will have 120 two-bedroom apartments, 132 three-bedroom apartments and 60 four-bedroom apartments, with 300 reserved for households earning no more than 60 percent of the area’s median income and two for families earning up to 50 percent of that amount.There will also be a clubhouse, fitness center, playground, and grilling and lounge areas accessible to all residents.Funding for the project includes a $2 million loan from the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund, a $2 million HOME loan, and approximately $6.9 million of 4% low-income housing tax credits annually that are expected to geberate $57.7 million on cash equity.”This is a much-needed development in Santa Fe, and many families will benefit from this affordable housing opportunity,” said Jeff Payne, chief lending officer for Housing New Mexico.Other development partners include Freddie Mac, PNC Bank, Deutsche Bank, Collier Securities, New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, and Santa Fe County.”This is a collaborative effort,” said Ron Mehl, Dominium senior vice president and project partner. “We are thankful for all our partners in this process who have worked tirelessly to bring more housing options to the Santa Fe community.”A date for completion of the project has not been announced.

SANTA FE, N.M. —

The amount of affordable housing in the state’s capital city will be getting a big boost.

Earlier this month, ground was broken for the Turquoise Trail affordable housing community on Route 14 south of Interstate 25, a 312-apartment complex planned by Dominium Development LLC and being built by the Weir Building Company of Fenton, Minnesota.

The development will consist of 13 three-story buildings will have 120 two-bedroom apartments, 132 three-bedroom apartments and 60 four-bedroom apartments, with 300 reserved for households earning no more than 60 percent of the area’s median income and two for families earning up to 50 percent of that amount.

There will also be a clubhouse, fitness center, playground, and grilling and lounge areas accessible to all residents.

Funding for the project includes a $2 million loan from the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund, a $2 million HOME loan, and approximately $6.9 million of 4% low-income housing tax credits annually that are expected to geberate $57.7 million on cash equity.

“This is a much-needed development in Santa Fe, and many families will benefit from this affordable housing opportunity,” said Jeff Payne, chief lending officer for Housing New Mexico.

Other development partners include Freddie Mac, PNC Bank, Deutsche Bank, Collier Securities, New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, and Santa Fe County.

“This is a collaborative effort,” said Ron Mehl, Dominium senior vice president and project partner. “We are thankful for all our partners in this process who have worked tirelessly to bring more housing options to the Santa Fe community.”

A date for completion of the project has not been announced.



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