Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced a vaccine order Sunday. All Navajo Nation executive branch employees will need to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by the…
ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s mask and vaccine requirements are drawing more fire from parents and officials as the school year begins and as COVID-19 cases continue to climb despite vaccination…
Nurse Katrina Philpot protests against COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates near the state Capitol on Friday in Santa Fe. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a health order this week obligating…
Tactical officers search for a suspect after a shootout that left multiple officers injured in northeast Albuquerque on Thursday. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)Robert Browman California felon charged in…
Albuquerque Police Department officers search a student after a shooting at Washington Middle School, which left at least one student dead and another in custody, police said Friday. Only a…
ALBUQUERQUE – Some are calling a requirement for everyone attending the upcoming New Mexico State Fair to show proof of vaccination anything but fair. The mandate was announced Tuesday by…
New Mexico Workforce Solutions Secretary Ricky Serna discusses plans for reform to the state’s system for distributing unemployment benefits that include a major expansion in staffing, at a news conference…
An electronic billboard warns about increasing COVID-19 cases as traffic passes Tuesday in Rio Rancho, N.M. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday she would be reinstating a mask mandate for…
West Nile virus detected in Bernalillo County mosquitoes ALBUQUERQUE – Health officials in New Mexico’s most populated area are warning residents to take precautions against mosquito bites. They announced Monday…
ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico health officials say an increase in hospitalizations across the state has prompted them to put out an urgent call for volunteer nurses to help boost the…
GALLUP, N.M. – Operations aimed at cracking down on street racing within Gallup and the surrounding area of northwestern New Mexico’s McKinley County have netted a dozen arrests and produced…
Students at Highland High School assemble for a rally on the first day of the fall semester on Wednesday in Albuquerque. (Cedar Attanasio/Associated Press)Cedar Attanasio School starts in New Mexico…
Recently retired state Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil, right, was appointed to lead New Mexico’s foster care and child welfare system as the next secretary of the Children, Youth…
SANTA FE – Physicians at Rehoboth McKinley Christian hospital in Gallup have taken the first major step toward unionizing to pursue collective bargaining on employment provisions, hospital staff and a…
Matthew Hechter, an Oñate High School and New Mexico State University alum and the co-owner of Tepozán Tequila, shows off his new line of tequila at Spirit Winds, July 28…
ALBUQUERQUE – A legal battle is brewing in New Mexico over what power state education officials have over local school boards and what limits there are to that authority. The…
RIO RANCHO, N.M. – The head of a national teachers union is visiting New Mexico on Thursday as part of a nationwide campaign to convince parents that it’s safe to…
ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest public university will require students, faculty and other workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30, while its second-largest university will implement the…
Green and red chile ristras on display at a roadside stand in Hatch, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)Susan Montoya Bryan SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prides itself on…
SANTA FE – Four months ago, Paul Skrak was among the New Mexico farmers who braced themselves for a bleak summer when acute drought conditions delayed the growing season by…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, center, with Aspen Elementary School Principal Michele Altherr, right, and left, Dr. Kurt Steinhaus, Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent during visit Aspen Elementary School…
In this 2021 file photo, Bob Odenkirk speaks at the AMC's "Better Call Saul" panel during the AMC Networks TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California. Odenkirk collapsed on…
ALBUQUERQUE – A former New Mexico State Police officer has been convicted of distributing marijuana intended for a 16-year-old girl he pulled over and a separate drugs-for-sex scheme. U.S. District…
SANTA FE – Despite the coronavirus pandemic that led to a shutdown for months in film production, the show did go on in New Mexico. The New Mexico Film Office…
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SANTA FE – Federal education officials have approved New Mexico’s spending plan for recovery aid, clearing the way for another $327 million to be distributed to the state. The money…
ALBUQUERQUE – The ABQ BioPark has a new family member. Zoo officials announced this week that Karen, a 19-year-old Nile hippopotamus, gave birth to a healthy baby on Monday. The…
ALBUQUERQUE – Authorities were searching for three people who were swept into an arroyo after storms hit Albuquerque. The search was a recovery mission, not a rescue, AFR Lt. Tom…
SANTA FE – A New Mexico lawmaker says he was denied Communion by his local Catholic priest because of his politics. Democratic state Sen. Joseph Cervantes said Monday that he…
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A stretch of Interstate 10 in Luna County in southwestern New Mexico is now a memorial corridor honoring a New Mexico State Officer gunned down by…
