Associated Press New Mexico

New Mexico clears way for hospitals to ration care if needed

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico on Monday cleared the way for hospitals to ration care if necessary, saying the state’s health care system has yet to see a reprieve as the nursing shortage continue...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico needs to dedicate money to more conservation projects, groups say

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – The Land of Enchantment is home to vast forests and deserts, meandering rivers and streams and a variety of wildlife. Now a coalition of outdoor recreation and conservatio...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Valles Caldera volunteers in race to document dendroglyphs

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – The haunting calls of bugling bull elk pervade the autumn air, echoing across the grass valleys and forested lava domes of Valles Caldera National Preserve as a cadre...

DATE: Oct 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico explores public financing for cannabis businesses

SANTA FE – Small-scale marijuana businesses in New Mexico would receive access to publicly financed loans of up to $250,000 in an effort to promote social and economic fairness, under a prop...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But anot...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. nuclear repository completes key mining project in southern N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE – After seven years of mining, federal officials say work to carve out the eighth disposal area at the U.S. government’s underground nuclear waste repository is complete. Manage...

DATE: Oct 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Airman convicted of kidnapping, killing Farmington woman in 2020

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Sasha Krause loved words. She loved learning and translating them into different languages. She loved reading them in nursery rhymes and assembling them into poetry. She w...

DATE: Oct 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in state law

SANTA FE – In her first prepared speech Tuesday, the new leader of New Mexico’s child protection department pledged to restore the agency’s credibility after a series of scandals under her p...

DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Gallup physicians, nurses call for action at town hall

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) – When local educator Lindsey Mingus’ water broke in the middle of the night while she was pregnant with her second child, she drove herself to Rehoboth McKinley Christian ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor settles harassment claim for $150K

SANTA FE – The final price tag for a settlement reached by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and a former campaign spokesman to settle accusations of harassment is now $150,000. The la...

DATE: Oct 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Free lunches earn business access to New Mexico lawmakers

SANTA FE – Companies clamoring for contracts on internet services and student testing are buying legislators free lunches at meetings about education policy. It’s a legal and a frequent prac...

DATE: Oct 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Navajo leaders seek hearing on oil and gas drilling dispute

ALBUQUERQUE – Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal le...

DATE: Oct 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico