Feds: $401M will add high-speed internet to rural US places
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is pledging $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve…
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Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek…
Continue Reading Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…
Continue Reading Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…
Continue Reading 2 dead, 10 injured in SUV rollover near US-Mexico border
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — Two people died and 10 were injured Wednesday when the SUV they were in rolled over in southeastern New Mexico about…
Continue Reading Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough
NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to…
Continue Reading 3 who died in New Mexico floodwaters were from West Texas
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have identified the bodies of three people who died in fast-moving floodwaters in Tecolote Canyon in northern…
Continue Reading Foundation returns Indigenous items to Mexican officials
By TERRY TANG Associated Press Small, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico,…
Continue Reading New Mexico expands gun safety efforts
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gun-safety advocates in New Mexico say police, prosecutors and even judges are still learning how to harness a 2020 red-flag…
Continue Reading Body of a man missing in New Mexico floodwaters is recovered
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — The body of a man reported missing after flash floods hit the wildfire burn scar in northern New Mexico last week has been…
Continue Reading Pope in headdress stirs deep emotions in Indian Country
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers…
Continue Reading Pope in Canada prays for healing for ‘terrible’ colonization
By NICOLE WINFIELD, PETER SMITH and ROB GILLIES Associated Press LAC SAINTE ANNE, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis prayed for healing Tuesday from the…
Continue Reading US judge OKs online publication of New Mexico voter records
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records from across the country…
Continue Reading Official: Grass fire torches as many as 20 Dallas-area homes
By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A grass fire apparently sparked by a mower swept about 300 yards across a tinder-dry open field to…
Continue Reading FBI: 170 missing Native Americans in New Mexico, reservation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In an effort to address the crisis of missing Indigenous people, the FBI announced Monday it is releasing a list of more…
Continue Reading Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada
By NICOLE WINFIELD and PETER SMITH Associated Press MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic…
Continue Reading Albuquerque park that’s been a homeless encampment to close
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said Monday that the city’s most visible unsanctioned homeless encampment will close next…
Continue Reading Tribal leaders, members react to pope’s apology on schools
MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis’ apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system and the…
Continue Reading Former Colombian soccer players to teach their skills in US
By CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp…
Continue Reading US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion…
Continue Reading Man, girl killed in New Mexico crash involving train and SUV
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities said Monday that a man and a 6-year-old girl were killed in a crash involving a Rail Runner commuter train and an…
Continue Reading 2 dead after commuter train and vehicle crash in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two people were killed Sunday in a crash involving a Rain Runner commuter train and a vehicle on State Road 313, according to…
Continue Reading Search continues for a man missing in New Mexico floodwaters
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — The search continued Sunday for a man reported missing after flash floods hit the wildfire burn scar in northern New Mexico.…
Continue Reading 2 dead, 1 missing in flooding in northern New Mexico
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Two people died and another person was reported missing from flash flooding in a stretch of northern New Mexico that had…
Continue Reading Embattled New Mexico child welfare agency outlines changes
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The embattled state agency that oversees child welfare in New Mexico said Friday…
Continue Reading 2 pilots die after firefighting helicopter crashes in Idaho
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Both pilots of a firefighting helicopter that crashed in Idaho have died, the U.S. Forest…
Continue Reading Indigenous Canadians wary, hopeful as pope prepares apology
By PETER SMITH Associated Press MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the…
Continue Reading Immigration judge union seeks recognition as top judge quits
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The National Association of Immigration Judges on Thursday asked the federal government to…
Continue Reading Reduced to a trickle, river managers brace for more drying
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — Triple digit temperatures and a fickle monsoon season have combined with decades of…
Continue Reading Drought drives Las Vegas to cap size of home swimming pools
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial…
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