U.S. doles out relief dollars to build N.M. employment pipelines
State has highest unemployment rate in the nation
DATE: Aug 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico
Susan Montoya Bryan
Position: The Associated Press
With Rio Grande reduced to a trickle, river managers brace for more drying
BERNALILLO, N.M. – Triple digit temperatures and a fickle monsoon season have combined with decades of persistent drought to put one of North America’s longest rivers in its most precarious ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
Regulators recommend license for spent nuclear fuel storage in southern New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE – There are no environmental reasons that would prevent a New Jersey-based company from building a multibillion-dollar facility in southern New Mexico to temporarily store tons o...
DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
Rule for managing endangered Mexican wolves spurs lawsuit
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. wildlife managers are being sued over their new management rule for the endangered Mexican gray wolf, with a coalition of environmentalists saying the recently adopted cou...
DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
U.S. awards $3B contract to manage nuclear waste repository
ALBUQUERQUE – Management of the U.S. government’s only underground nuclear waste repository will be taken over later this year by a company created by one of the largest engineering, constru...
DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
New Mexico county blasts U.S. over historic prescribed fire
ALBUQUERQUE – Commissioners in a northern New Mexico county urged U.S. forest managers on Tuesday to do a more comprehensive environmental review of plans to restore large swaths of forest t...
DATE: Jul 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
New Mexico track confirms health status of race horses
ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico regulators on Monday said several horses that were feared dead by animal advocates after a weekend of racing at one of the state’s premiere horse tracks are alive an...
DATE: Jul 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
Top official during massive New Mexico blaze gets new post
ALBUQUERQUE – The supervisor of a national forest that erupted in flames earlier this year has been temporarily assigned to a post in Washington, D.C., as New Mexico looks to recover from it...
DATE: Jul 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
Western states could settle feud over beleaguered Rio Grande
ALBUQUERQUE – The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest rivers in North America could be nearing an end as a date to resume the trial has been put off ...
DATE: Jul 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
1 of 2 remaining units closes at San Juan Generating Station
Customer rates fuel debate around New Mexico power plant
DATE: Jun 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
U.S. makes more wildfire recovery aid available for New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday authorized an increase in funding for debris removal and other emergency measures being taken as a result of a historic wildfire season in Ne...
DATE: Jun 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
Crews slow New Mexico fires, brace for dangerous conditions
ALBUQUERQUE – More than 2,000 firefighters battling the largest U.S. wildfire dug back-up fire lines and rearranged fire engines around homes in northeast New Mexico on Wednesday in anticipa...
DATE: May 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico
