Associated Press New Mexico

Southern New Mexico city to install safe haven ‘baby box’

HOBBS, N.M. – Hobbs city commissioners took a step toward saving the lives of unwanted newborns at a recent meeting by voting to install a baby box in the southeastern New Mexico community. ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

2 dead, 1 missing in flooding in northern New Mexico

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Two people died and another person was reported missing from flash flooding in a stretch of northern New Mexico that had been ravaged this past spring by wildfire. Tim Nix,...

DATE: Jul 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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

Fatally injured New Mexico helicopter crew member called 911

ALBUQUERQUE – One of the four first responders killed in last weekend's New Mexico helicopter crash managed to call 911 before succumbing to his injuries, according to emergency dispatch rec...

DATE: Jul 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Crowd protests relocation of abortion clinic to New Mexico

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. converged in southern New Mexico on Tuesday to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court b...

DATE: Jul 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico tax changes benefit lower-income residents

SANTA FE – The tax burden for funding state government and public schools in New Mexico is shifting slightly toward wealthier residents as the state stops collecting taxes on most Social Sec...

DATE: Jul 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Interior head Haaland breaks leg in hiking accident

WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is recovering after breaking her leg Sunday during a hike in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, the Interior Department says. Doctors confirmed ...

DATE: Jul 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Southern New Mexico county says abortion clinics not welcome

SANTA FE – A local government board in southern New Mexico approved a message Thursday saying that abortion clinics are not welcome in politically conservative Otero County – even though sta...

DATE: Jul 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Doctors urge access to psychedelic therapies in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Physicians and researchers are urging New Mexico legislators to allow the use of psychedelic mushrooms in mental health therapy aimed at overcoming depression, anxiety, psychologi...

DATE: Jul 13, 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

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