Scan of databases is the first attempt by law enforcement to quantify the crisis after pressure mounts for years
Some of the Mexican antiquities returned to the country by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation are seen during a repatriation ceremony on Wednesday in Albuquerque. (Nora Vanesky/Albuquerque Museum Foundation via AP)Nora…
Mine petitions filed to have guns removed since red-flag law went into effect
A voter, left, provides a signature to receive a ballot at a makeshift polling station inside a parking garage in Santa Fe, N.M., on May 5, 2020. (Morgan Lee/Associated Press…
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…
A sunset is seen through plumes wildfire smoke in Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7. Two people died and another person was reported missing from flash flooding in a stretch…
Sand and gravel bars in the Rio Grande expand in the river’s reach through central New Mexico as monsoon clouds form north of Bernalillo, N.M., on Thursday. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated…
This image from video provided by KOAT, shows scene where four people were killed in a crash of a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office helicopter that was headed back to Albuquerque…
Anti-abortion advocates listen to various speakers during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., on Tuesday. Anti-abortion activists from across the country converged in southern New…
A pump jack as seen March 30, 2022, in Tatum, N.M. The state’s direct financial reliance on the energy industry – dominated by fossil fuels – is expected to increase.…
Letter: ‘Efforts to protect critical reservoir elevations must include significant actions focused downstream of Lake Powell’
Crew was returning from firefighting mission
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Department of the Interior on May…
Ryan Merrion and Sean Dugan take over family businesses during disruptions of pandemic and war
Otero County, N.M., Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks to reporters at federal court in Washington on June. 17. The county commission on Thursday approved a message saying that abortion clinics are…
Any activities that can cause water degradation must go through strict state authorization process
People walk under the state Capitol rotunda during the annual legislative session on Feb. 2 in Santa Fe. A legislative panel on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, listened to advocates who…
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 of spent nuclear…
A Mexican gray wolf is seen in Eurkea, Mo., on May 20, 2019. U.S. wildlife managers are being sued over their new recovery plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf,…
A worker drives a cart through a tunnel inside the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant No. 2, 150 feet below the surface near Carlsbad, N.M., April 8, 1998. Management of the…
Visitors explore Meow Wolf’s mazelike exhibition space in Santa Fe in 2017. Matt King, a co-founder of the Santa Fe-based arts collective Meow Wolf that has grown into an offbeat,…
A forest along NM518 in Mora County, N.M, is scorched by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire on May 23. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP file)Eddie Moore ALBUQUERQUE – Commissioners…
Former New Mexico police officer Christopher Smelser went on trial on Monday on a murder charge in the 2020 death of Antonio Valenzuela. (Las Cruces Police Department via AP, file)…
A forest along NM518 in Mora County, N.M, is scorched by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire on May 23. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP file)Eddie Moore ALBUQUERQUE – The…
Journal file<br><br>Cortez was recently selected as a site to receive state funds for an electric vehicle charging station.du1-i-syn ALBUQUERQUE – The first in a series of electric vehicle charging stations…
This March 2014 photo shows contoured patterns in the vast white sand dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. New Mexico U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich developed legislation to…
Spanish teacher Titi Martin-Borregon teaches fourth grade Spanish/English dual language class students at the New Mexico International School in Albuquerque, N.M., on May 23. (Cedar Attanasio/Associated Press file)Cedar Attanasio SANTA…
A school bus travels along a dirt road outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. Glenabah Martinez is looking for recent Native American college graduates or people who are about to…
The Rio Grande flows just north of Albuquerque on April 10. The fight between Texas and New Mexico over management of one of the longest rivers in North America could…
ALBUQUERQUE – One of the largest abortion providers in Texas is planning to move its operations to New Mexico and another provider that offers telehealth services related to abortion and…
