Vulnerable Democrats warn Biden about reopening asylum
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration’s decision to end sweeping asylum limits at the…
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New Mexico launches cannabis sales within Texans’ reach
By MORGAN LEE and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is bringing sales of recreational marijuana to the doorstep of…
Continue Reading US taps $420M to boost water supplies hit by climate change
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials are funneling more money to rural water projects in several…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
By DAVID KOENIG and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writers DALLAS (AP) — President Joe Biden is again dipping into the nation’s petroleum stockpile…
Continue Reading Trapping ban to take effect on public lands in New Mexico
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It will be illegal to use wildlife traps, snares and poison on public lands across…
Continue Reading Migrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Migrants have been expelled more than 1.7 million times from the U.S.…
Continue Reading Group rebuffs House inquiry into New Mexico election audit
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A congressional oversight committee says the lead contractor in a partisan audit of 2020…
Continue Reading New Mexico regulators to review coal plant financing dispute
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It will be up to New Mexico regulators to settle a feud over financing and…
Continue Reading Arizona police ID man killed on I-40 as New Mexico resident
The Associated Press WINSLOW, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who was struck several times by vehicles on Interstate 40 near Winslow…
Continue Reading Growth slows for endangered Mexican gray wolf population
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are now more Mexican gray wolves roaming the southwestern U.S. than at any…
Continue Reading Prosecutor against probation in cases of aggravated fleeing
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Dangerous incidents involving high-speed police pursuits have prompted a northern New Mexico district attorney to adopt a…
Continue Reading Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press Oregon will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to…
Continue Reading Chaves County deputies involved in fatal shooting at dairy
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An investigation is underway after a disorderly conduct call at a dairy in Chaves County ended with a man fatally shot.…
Continue Reading Suspect in Albuquerque murder jailed after hospital release
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in an Albuquerque murder case now is in jail after being released from a hospital. Bernalillo…
Continue Reading Ukrainian students overseas fret about relatives, the future
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America MONTEZUMA, N.M. (AP) — Students from Ukraine who are studying overseas are worrying about…
Continue Reading Man convicted in death of 6-year-old girl in New Mexico
LOS LUNAS, N.M. (AP) — A 24-year-old man has been convicted in the 2018 rape and strangulation killing of a 6-year-old girl who lived with her…
Continue Reading Accountant gets 24-year term for embezzling from foundation
ALAMORDO, N.M. (AP) — An Alamogordo accountant faces 24 years in prison for embezzling approximately $1.8 million from a foundation that provided…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for recreational pot in New Mexico
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Marijuana producers and aficionados are bracing for the April 1 start of retail marijuana…
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Warily, tribes prepare for cannabis ventures in New Mexico
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two tribal communities are ensuring they’ll be free from federal interference if they…
Continue Reading US agency extends comment period on Chaco proposal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Land managers are extending the comment period on a proposal that would prohibit oil and gas development on federal land…
Continue Reading Standoff with man in aunt’s Albuquerque home ends in arrest
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police say they’ve apprehended a man after an hours-long standoff at the home of his aunt, a former…
Continue Reading Nevada National Guard learned key lessons from COVID fight
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s National Guard leaders learned some valuable lessons from the more than 700 days…
Continue Reading New Mexico coal-fired plant closure causes financing dispute
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The upcoming closure of one of the few remaining coal-fired power plants in the…
Continue Reading New Mexico base to be new training site for attack aircraft
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A member of New Mexico’s congressional delegation announced Friday that Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque will…
Continue Reading Bandelier officials assessing area of fatal rock fall
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Officials are assessing the area of Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico where an Illinois woman was killed…
Continue Reading Prosecutors can pursue murder charges in Santa Fe crash
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge says prosecutors presented enough evidence to pursue murder charges in a criminal trial against a New Mexico woman…
Continue Reading Rock strike, fall from ladder kills visitor at Bandelier
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Bandelier National Monument officials say a visitor was fatally injured at Bandelier National Monument when struck by a…
Continue Reading US states seek to ease inflation burden with direct payments
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Governors and state lawmakers throughout the U.S. are floating proposals to send checks…
Continue Reading New rules aim to decide US asylum cases in months, not years
By AMY TAXIN and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press The Biden administration has unveiled new procedures to handle asylum claims at the U.S. southern…
Continue Reading White House releases report on Native American voting rights
By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The White House says local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native…
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