Associated Press 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

Guided tour offers rare look at great house at Aztec Ruins

AZTEC (AP) – Retired archaeologist Jeff Wharton used maps to explain the size of Aztec North, an unexcavated great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument, during a guided tour of a part of t...

DATE: Oct 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Albuquerque resolution recognizes boarding school trauma

ALBUQUERQUE – The Albuquerque City Council has adopted a resolution that acknowledges ongoing generational trauma caused by U.S. Indigenous boarding school policies and formalizes a commitme...

DATE: Oct 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Progressive mayors seek re-election in Albuquerque, Santa Fe

SANTA FE – Progressive mayors are seeking re-election in New Mexico’s largest city and its fast-growing state capital as voting begins Tuesday, contending with challenges from Hispanic candi...

DATE: Oct 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Family files lawsuit over deadly balloon crash in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – The family of a passenger on a hot air balloon that crashed and killed five people in Albuquerque in June is suing the estate of the dead pilot and the companies that operated...

DATE: Sep 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Official: New Mexico ranchers capture Texas homicide suspect

ROSWELL, N.M. – A manhunt for a Texas homicide suspect ended Tuesday in rural southeastern New Mexico when ranchers detained the man at gunpoint and handed him over to sheriff’s deputies, a ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico community schools aim to cover ‘every basic need’

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – If you’ve seen one community school, you’ve seen one community school. This no-one-size-fits-all mantra is intentional, said David Greenberg, executive director of th...

DATE: Sep 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Work aims to uncover history of boarding school burial site in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque city officials plan to use ground-penetrating radar as they research the history of a site where dozens of Native American boarding school students are believed to...

DATE: Sep 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Elementary school student reading, math proficiency declines

SANTA FE – The proficiency of New Mexico’s elementary students in math and reading has dropped significantly amid the pandemic, with only 31% achieving it, according to a review of prelimina...

DATE: Sep 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico races to spend federal rental assistance

SANTA FE – State agencies spent federal pandemic aid at a furious pace during the month of August, channeling about $630 million in efforts to bolster unemployment reserves, provide emergenc...

DATE: Sep 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Jury seated in case of man suspected of killing Farmington woman

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Opening statements in the case of a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the shooting death of a Mennonite woman are scheduled to start Friday. Mark Gooch, 22, faces up to lif...

DATE: Sep 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News