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Pandemic afflicts impoverished areas of New Mexico

SANTA FE – A top state health official warned Wednesday that COVID-19 infections are far more prevalent in low-income areas of the New Mexico, potentially straining Medicaid health care. ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico overhauls pandemic isolation rules for travelers

State also announces rescue loans for businesses

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Prosecutor wants to try juvenile as adult in New Mexico athlete’s death

Prep basketball star shot dead at social gathering

DATE: Aug 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Judiciary weighs challenge to New Mexico stay-at-home order

SANTA FE — The New Mexico state Supreme Court is weighing whether the governor has the authority to levy hefty fines against businesses as she enforces a public health order to slow the spre...

DATE: Aug 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

N.M. regulators tap solar to replace coal-fired San Juan Generating Station

SANTA FE – Solar-generated electricity and battery storage facilities will be installed in northwestern New Mexico to replace a major coal-fired power plant, according to terms of a decision...

DATE: Jul 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Activists take aim at conquistador statues in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Two public statues of Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate in New Mexico are drawing renewed attention and criticism as memorials erected in honor of Confederate leaders and other hist...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Financial crisis looms over New Mexico cities, counties

SANTA FE – Local governments from Roswell to Santa Fe are being swept away in the “economic tsunami” of the coronavirus pandemic and may fall back on the state for financial aid, a leading s...

DATE: Jun 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico will lift many business restrictions on June 1

Restaurants can open at 50% of maximum capacity

DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Outbreak on edge of Navajo Nation overwhelms rural hospital

GALLUP, N.M. — On the eve of New Mexico’s shutdown of bars and restaurants to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the city of Gallup came alive for one last night of revelry. Befo...

DATE: May 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico auditor pressures Gallup hospital for records

SANTA FE – Leaders of a critical care hospital in the middle of a coronavirus hot spot in Gallup, New Mexico, are coming under mounting pressure to comply with a financial audit amid complai...

DATE: May 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico town near vast reservation shuts everyone out

GALLUP, N.M. – Like clockwork, payday arrives and tens of thousands of people from the Navajo reservation and other rural stretches along the New Mexico-Arizona border flood into Gallup, a f...

DATE: May 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Forecast show severe economic fallout for N.M. state government

SANTA FE – The economic fallout in New Mexico from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to wipe out between $2.1 billion and $3.9 billion in previously anticipated state government income by m...

DATE: May 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico