USDA secretary in Mississippi to discuss rural initiative
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is visiting Mississippi to announce a program geared toward helping…
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New Mexico fines film company over Alec Baldwin shooting
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico workplace safety regulators say they have issued the maximum possible fine against…
Continue Reading Safety failures in accidental movie-set shooting by Alec Baldwin prompt maximum fine by state workplace regulators
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Safety failures in accidental movie-set shooting by Alec Baldwin prompt maximum fine by state workplace…
Continue Reading Judge clears way for New Mexico GOP redistricting challenge
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state district judge has cleared the way for the Republican Party of New Mexico to challenge a congressional map that…
Continue Reading Navajo ads highlight unsolved homicide, missing person cases
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities are taking to the airwaves to call attention to unsolved…
Continue Reading US nuclear agency opens massive office complex in New Mexico
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration is in New Mexico to…
Continue Reading VP Harris to officiate New Mexico governor’s May wedding
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is getting married, and Vice President Kamala Harris has been picked to officiate. The…
Continue Reading NMSU ending option of COVID-19 testing; vaccination required
LAS CRUCES, N.M (AP) — New Mexico State University will require all students on campus to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 1, ending…
Continue Reading New Mexico GOP seeks to overturn congressional map
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Attorneys for the Republican Party of New Mexico are urging a state district court judge to…
Continue Reading Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum
By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border has surged in recent weeks as the…
Continue Reading US wildlife officials aim to address illegal wolf killings
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prompted by a court order, federal wildlife managers have issued a new draft plan…
Continue Reading Hobbs woman OK after being attacked by 5 pit bulls
HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — A Hobbs woman is recovering after police say she was mauled by five dogs. Hobbs police said in a news release Monday the…
Continue Reading Santa Fe’s transparency regulations withstand final appeal
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to Santa Fe campaign disclosure requirements stemming from a failed…
Continue Reading Police deny permit requests from Albuquerque 4/20 festival
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Organizers of an Albuquerque festival for 4/20, the date known for celebrating marijuana, have had two permits denied by…
Continue Reading Remaining evacuation orders lifted in New Mexico wildfire
RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a wind-driven wildfire in southern New Mexico that destroyed more than 200 homes now is 56% contained and all…
Continue Reading Roswell police: 2 teens found dead at park in homicide case
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Police say two teenagers have been fatally shot at a Roswell park and it’s being investigated as a homicide. They say the…
Continue Reading State police: Suspect dead, officer uninjured in shooting
PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico state police say a state police officer is uninjured and a suspect is dead following a shooting on Interstate 40 on…
Continue Reading Some state lawmakers calling it quits, can’t afford to serve
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Various state legislators around the country are calling it quits this year, in part because…
Continue Reading Crews fight New Mexico fires as some evacuations lift
RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have lifted some evacuation orders for a southern New Mexico mountain community hit by wildfire. Firefighters are…
Continue Reading New details in officer-involved killing of shooting suspect
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police have released more details about last month’s officer-involved fatal shooting of a man suspected of…
Continue Reading Biden increases oil royalty rate, scales back lease sales
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and…
Continue Reading Texas halts truck inspections that caused border gridlock
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up…
Continue Reading Ruling rejects challenge to habitat designation for mouse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An appeals court on Friday uphold a lower court’s rejection of two ranching groups’ challenge to a federal agency’s…
Continue Reading New Mexico adopts stiffer pollution rules for oil and gas
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (AP) — New Mexico regulators have approved more rules aimed at cracking down on pollution…
Continue Reading New Mexico village seeks prayers as deadly wildfire rages
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Residents of a southern New Mexico village are asking for prayers as firefighters dealt with more hot, dry…
Continue Reading Children’s book illustrator scours Santa Fe after art theft
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An accomplished illustrator of books for children including a work authored by Chelsea Clinton says she’s searching for a…
Continue Reading Mexican woman dies entangled crossing Arizona border wall
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a Mexican woman whose leg was entangled…
Continue Reading Expanding drought leaves western US scrambling for water
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal water managers think they have a plan to keep the Rio Grande flowing this…
Continue Reading New Mexico wildfire kills 2 people, destroys homes
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press A wind-driven blaze killed a New Mexico couple and has burned over 200 homes. Authorities…
Continue Reading New Mexico swears in Shannon Bacon as chief justice
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court has a new chief justice who will oversee the administration of the judiciary and act as an…
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