New Mexico legislature approves payments to offset inflation
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed legislation to provide payments of $500 to…
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Manchin, Capito among senators asking consultation on VA
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s U.S. senators are among a dozen asking President Joe Biden to consult with officials state by state on…
Continue Reading New Mexico dairies urged to seek aid due to contamination
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Dairy farmers can seek reimbursement from the federal government for cows contaminated by chemicals that have leached into…
Continue Reading Jury deliberating in ex-police officer’s Capitol riot trial
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury has begun deliberating in the case against a former Virginia police officer…
Continue Reading Defendants protest trial delays in New Mexico compound raid
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A second defendant is invoking the right to a speedy trial in the 2018 raid on a squalid…
Continue Reading Stiegler back, among big names at World Pro Ski Tour event
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Three-time Olympian Resi Stiegler will make a comeback to the ski racing scene this weekend at the World Pro Ski Tour…
Continue Reading US agency to review oil, gas leases near Chaco in New Mexico
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government, environmentalists and an energy company have reached a…
Continue Reading Ex-officer testifies against mentor at Capitol riot trial
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Virginia police officer who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with…
Continue Reading Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, CAMILLE FASSETT and JASEN LO Associated Press States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the…
Continue Reading Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, CAMILLE FASSETT and JASEN LO Associated Press States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the…
Continue Reading Albuquerque police officers fatally shoot carjacking suspect
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police say officers fatally shot a carjacking suspect who had fired at least one shot at officers. Police…
Continue Reading COVID spending bill stalls in Senate as GOP, Dems stalemate
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in…
Continue Reading US nuclear agency sued over public records requests
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A watchdog group is suing the National Nuclear Security Administration over its…
Continue Reading Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. wind energy companies has been sentenced to…
Continue Reading Judge acquits man of misdemeanors in Capitol riot trial
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has acquitted a New Mexico man of charges that he illegally entered the…
Continue Reading First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
By PETER SMITH Associated Press U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native…
Continue Reading COVID spending bill stalls in Senate as GOP, Dems stalemate
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in…
Continue Reading Navajo Nation eases COVID restrictions; mask mandate remains
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has loosened coronavirus pandemic restrictions to allow more people into businesses and to gather…
Continue Reading New Mexico legislature approves payments to offset inflation
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are pushing for one-time payments to New Mexico residents of $500 per…
Continue Reading Agency: New Mexico pot legalization doesn’t change US law
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says agents at checkpoints in New Mexico will continue to enforce a federal law making possession…
Continue Reading New Mexico inmates outline abuse in civil rights lawsuit
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than a dozen inmates who were transferred following a riot at a New Mexico…
Continue Reading Albuquerque council nixes veto of repeal of plastic bag ban
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Albuquerque City Council has voted to uphold a previous decision to repeal an ordinance banning grocery stores and…
Continue Reading Trial opens for police officer charged with storming Capitol
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors have heard conflicting explanations for why an off-duty police officer from Virginia…
Continue Reading Afghan evacuees mark first US Ramadan with gratitude, agony
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and MARIAM FAM The Associated Press LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) — Afghan families evacuated to the United States when the…
Continue Reading New Mexico proposes more tax rebates to offset gas prices
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic state legislators announced Monday they will seek a new round of rebates totaling…
Continue Reading Ex-Navajo VP hopeful announces he’ll seek presidential post
Associated Press WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — A former Navajo Nation vice presidential candidate says he is seeking the tribal president’s post.…
Continue Reading Fire engulfs home of retired Santa Fe assistant fire chief
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A retired Santa Fe assistant fire chief continues to recover from severe burns after his own home was decimated last week in…
Continue Reading Ex-police officer faces jury trial on Capitol riot charges
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection will resume Tuesday in the trial of a former Virginia police officer charged…
Continue Reading Police: 3 men wounded after shooting in downtown Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque are investigating a shooting in the downtown area that left three men wounded. They say officers…
Continue Reading Army OKs $1.5M settlement for pollution at former depot
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Army has reached an agreement with Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico to pay $1.5 million…
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