This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the active fire lines of the Hermits Peak wildfire, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Wildfire in the…
Syedonset ALBUQUERQUE – An Afghan refugee charged in the slayings of two Muslim men is facing new charges in connection with the shooting death of another man in the parking…
Burned trees are visible on Aug. 8 in Gallinas, N.M. Earlier this year the area endured the devastation of the state’s largest fire in recorded history, caused by federal officials…
ALBUQUERQUE – Five of New Mexico’s 26 county jails and detention centers are suffering from staff shortages that have pushed vacancy rates among correctional officers above 50%. At least one…
Workers at a Santa Fe Starbucks are taking steps to unionize. (Associated Press file)onset SANTA FE – Workers at a Santa Fe Starbucks are taking steps to unionize. The Santa…
Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., in 2015. State economists on Friday revised upward forecasts for state government income amid surging oil and natural gas production in New…
Closure comes as the city also cracks down on sidewalks and ditches but before new housing programs are in place
Explosion of cases at schools ‘inevitable’ as districts move away from masking, advocate says
Muhammad Syed was ordered held without bond pending trial as prosecutors argued Wednesday that he was a danger to his own family and the greater community. (Albuquerque Police Department via…
Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin represents himself in a lawsuit to have him removed from office in First District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday. Griffin is fighting to…
This aerial photo shows part of the Bonanza Creek Ranch film-set in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021. New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator has determined that the…
Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay talks to people before the Arizona State Navajo Code Talkers Day celebration ceremony on Sunday in Phoenix. (Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press)Ross D. Franklin PHOENIX –…
This Aug. 9, 2022, still image taken from officer video provided by the Albuquerque Police Department shows the arrest of Muhammad Syed. Syed, the main suspect in the slaying of…
Wastewater from the Aug. 5, 2015, Gold King Mine spill fills the Animas River and flowed into other waterways in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. New Mexico officials have sent…
State’s health care worker shortage worsens access to general reproductive health care
Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody Monday in connection with the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque over the last nine months. He faces charges in two of…
Buu Nygren campaigns for president of the Navajo Nation on Aug. 2 in Red Mesa, Arizona. Nygren picked Richelle Montoya, the 45-year-old elected leader of the Torreon/Star Lake Chapter as…
The killings have spread fear beyond New Mexico.
Parade started the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Centennial Celebration
A New Mexico Department of Corrections official walks toward the front entrance of the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants in November 2021. (Austin Fisher/Source New Mexico) 2nd Judicial…
Lawmakers question costs and need for prison mail policy
Task force to propose legislation building on court’s eviction prevention program
State has highest unemployment rate in the nation
Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Unity and Mothership Eve. After reaching nearly 50,000 feet, Unity will be released and drop for a moment or two before its rocket motor ignites to send…
Covered efforts to reform tribal government and a deadly riot at the tribal capital
10-yer-old’s mother pleaded guilty in 2018
Show and its prequel ‘Better Call Saul’ helped fuel filmmaking across New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE – Humanitarian concerns are being raised about a new prison policy in New Mexico that provides inmates with photocopies of their personal mail – never the actual mail itself…
Jonathan Nez, incumbent Navajo president and candidate in the primary election, speaks during a Presidential Forum at Arizona State University on July 12 in Phoenix. Nez is among 15 candidates…
A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city's name, losing the “r.” (New Mexico Department of Transportation via AP)…
