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New Mexico challenges effort to post election rolls online

SANTA FE – New Mexico election regulators are resisting efforts by a conservative-backed foundation to post statewide voter registration information on a public website where it can be searc...

DATE: Apr 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Man suspected in New Mexico homicide is arrested in Illinois

FARMINGTON – A man suspected in the death of his former girlfriend in New Mexico last year has been arrested in Illinois, according to authorities. Farmington police said 51-year-old Thomas ...

DATE: Apr 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Discovery of radioactive liquid pauses work at U.S. nuclear dump

ALBUQUERQUE – An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container discovered a sma...

DATE: Apr 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Farmington police shoot and kill armed man

Reports say officers asked the man several times to put down his weapon

DATE: Apr 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. agency to review oil, gas leases near Chaco in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. government, environmentalists and an energy company have reached a settlement over contested oil and gas leases in an area held sacred by Native American tribes. The ...

DATE: Apr 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico Legislature approves payments to offset inflation

SANTA FE – New Mexico will provide new payments totaling $500 for individual adults or $1,000 per household to offset steep prices for fuel and raging inflation, under a bill approved by the...

DATE: Apr 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico inmates outline abuse in civil rights lawsuit

ALBUQUERQUE – More than a dozen inmates who were transferred after a riot at a New Mexico lockup in 2020 were allegedly abused and terrorized by correctional officers while being processed a...

DATE: Apr 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico proposes more tax rebates to offset gas prices

SANTA FE – Democratic state legislators announced Monday they will seek two new rounds of rebates totaling $500 per individual or $1,000 per household to offset steep gasoline prices, with n...

DATE: Apr 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Tribes seek more inclusion, action from U.S. officials

ALBUQUERQUE – It was a quick trip for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland with stops to hike through desert scrub near the U.S.-Mexico border and to marvel at the jagged Organ Mountains befo...

DATE: Apr 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico launches cannabis sales within Texans' reach

First-day sales reached about $2 million by early Friday evening

DATE: Apr 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Trapping ban to take effect on public lands in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – It will be illegal to use wildlife traps, snares and poison on public lands across New Mexico under a ban that takes effect Friday. New Mexico is joining a handful of Western ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Growth slows for endangered Mexican gray wolf population

ALBUQUERQUE – There are now more Mexican gray wolves roaming the southwestern U.S. than at any time since the federal government started to reintroduce the endangered species, wildlife manag...

DATE: Mar 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico