A firefighting air tanker drops fire retardant across the mountains near the Village of Ruidoso, N.M., on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Officials say a wildfire has burned about 150 structures,…
High school senior Cruz Davis-Martinez speaks with fellow students at the New Mexico School for the Arts on March 10 in Santa Fe. Davis-Martinez stands to benefit from a $85…
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. New Mexico election…
Blotter lightscca FARMINGTON – A man suspected in the death of his former girlfriend in New Mexico last year has been arrested in Illinois, according to authorities. Farmington police said…
The idled Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository, is seen March 6, 2014, near Carlsbad, N.M. There’s no way of knowing if cost increases and…
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Habitat for about a million bats will be protected from human impacts through a deal between a nonprofit and the federal government. About 315,000 acres of…
Reports say officers asked the man several times to put down his weapon
ALBUQUERQUE – Warnings that strong winds and hot and dry weather could produce dangerous wildfires blanketed most of New Mexico on Saturday as crews continued to battle at least two…
Five arrested after child’s body is found at squalid compound
FILE – A hiker sits on a ledge above Pueblo Bonito, the largest archaeological site at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021.…
Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted a New Mexico man of misdemeanor charges…
Democratic state Sen. Harold Pope of Albuquerque speaks to the New Mexico state Senate in Santa Fe on Tuesday. The Legislature was vetting a bill to provide tax rebates and…
ALBUQUERQUE – More than a dozen inmates who were transferred after a riot at a New Mexico lockup in 2020 were allegedly abused and terrorized by correctional officers while being…
Democratic state House Majority Speaker Brian Golf speaks ahead of a special legislative session aimed at providing financial relief from rising inflation on Monday, April 4, 2022, in Santa Fe,…
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks April 23, 2021, during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. Native American and Alaska Native groups are seeing change under Haaland but…
First-day sales reached about $2 million by early Friday evening
A foothold trap intended for bobcats, set by licensed trapper Tom Fisher, is seen Feb. 20, 2019, on the outskirts of Tierra Amarilla, N.M. It will be illegal to use…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., presides during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 7, 2021, in Washington. The House Oversight Committee is opening an…
Water flows into an evaporation pond Oct. 28, 2019, at the south side of the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station in Waterflow, N.M. The upcoming closure of one of the…
Members of the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team process a wolf during an annual count in January 2022 in southwestern New Mexico. Officials announced Wednesday that the U.S. population of…
A store worker poses for a photo with his shirt at the Ultra Health medical cannabis dispensary on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. Marijuana producers and aficionados…
Chaco Canyon was the center of a culture that flourished from the 800s to the 1100s. The U.S. House has passed the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act to halt…
The town of Bayfield adjusted its 2013 marijuana ban to allow cultivation facilities closer to town starting Sunday. (Associated Press file)Associated Press file SANTA FE – Two tribal communities have…
Lummi Nation tribal member Karen Scott drops her completed ballot into a ballot drop box on Oct. 19, 2020, on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Wash. Local, state and federal…
Pumpjacks work in a field in 2015 near Lovington, N.M. A pollution survey using sensors on small airplanes to detect methane emissions across a major U.S. oil and natural gas…
Light fades outside the New Mexico State Capitol on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M., as the Legislature debates record-setting proposals for spending increases on everything from state…
Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner Couy Griffin gestures as he speaks outside the federal court after receiving a verdict in his trial, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 in Washington. A federal…
Bill includes eligibility for Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute and Navajo tribes; 29 colleges participate
Griffin says he is being prosecuted for his political views
The Kayenta Solar Facility is seen along the Arizona-Utah border on the Navajo Nation in 2017. A new $1.2 million grant will support a solar and battery storage project in…
