Jenny Parks, CEO of the Los Alamos National Laboratories Foundation, criticizes a proposed overhaul of New Mexico’s state science standards for public schools that would omit or delete references to…
The performances Monday take place amid simmering tensions over a separate annual local tribute to Spanish conquistador Don Diego de Vargas, who led the 1692 return to Santa Fe of…
Mary Hudetz/Associated Press file<br><br>Police gather outside Albuquerque City Hall while searching for a gunman. Records show seven Albuquerque beat police officers were among the city’s top 25 salary earners last…
New Mexico Auditor Tim Keller talks during a news conference on July 12 in Albuquerque. Questionable endorsements and eyebrow-raising donations so far are clouding Albuquerque’s open mayoral election. Candidates are…
Deborah Green and Peter Green entered pleas Monday in Cibola County District Court. Co-leader Deborah Green and high-ranking leader Peter Green of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training are being held…
Here’s the latest as of Monday afternoon on protests in New Mexico over a public tribute to Spanish conquistadors: 12:50 p.m. ACLU Staff Attorney Kristin Love said Monday the watchdog…
Nathaniel Jouett faces multiple charges of first-degree murder, assault, aggravated battery and child abuse stemming from Monday’s shooting inside the library in Clovis, a rural community near the stateline with…
Bernalillo is New Mexico’s most populous county and includes the city of Albuquerque. The county’s Board of Commissioners passed the immigrant-friendly resolution in March as a symbolic gesture, and to…
They say a State Police officer was providing traffic control for a hazmat incident on Interstate 40 about 9 a.m. Thursday when he saw a pickup truck with a camper…
Police say they were called to a small market in Pecos, New Mexico, around 8:30 p.m. Sunday after a man showed up armed and “was homicidal.” Officers didn’t find the…
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied petition
The recent cases involve a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman. The first case this year was reported in early June in a 63-year-old man. All three patients, who live…
New law requires doctors to check database of prescriptions
At a congressional hearing, Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce on Thursday urged the secretary of the interior to reduce the land area of the monument on the outskirts of Las…
Those killed in the incident Monday near the Arizona border were a 9-month-old girl and her parents from Phoenix, two people from El Paso, Texas, and a California woman. The…
The flames were marching to the south and east, toward scars left behind by previous fires and away from the neighborhoods that cleared out the day before. Crews have established…
Fire crews head toward the Jemez Mountains along U.S. Highway 550 in Rio Rancho, N.M., as the smoke plume from a prescribed fire grows on Thursday. Sandoval County Sheriff’s Lt.…
Patrolman says highway north of San Ysidro ‘is a killing zone’
Priest had served in Durango for nearly 30 years
Five decades later, the violent courthouse raid orchestrated by Mexican-American activists that helped spark the Chicano Movement is hotly debated in a state that now boasts the nation’s highest percentage…
Empty water tanks sit at the edge of a brine well operation, shown at right of tanks, as a major irrigation canal flows by in Carlsbad, N.M. Almost half of…
This undated photo provided by Linda Bilyeu shows Randy Bilyeu. The case of Bilyeu, the man who moved to the American West to search for $2 million in hidden treasure…
GOP governor calls proposal ‘a political play’
Richard Charley, right, and Melvin Jones deliver water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation on Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, New Mexico. Toxic wastewater…
In a letter to Trump signed Wednesday, Dunn proposed to swap state surface and mineral estate rights within three miles or less of the U.S.-Mexico border for what he called…
Talks aim to deal with $80 million deficit
Park includes remnants of one of North America’s few super volcanoes
The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that two bills have already been filed by Democrats for the 2017 Legislature to raise the wage. One, by Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, of…
From early-childhood education to immigration, Archbishop Wester speaks out
A worker walks around one of the five retentions ponds constructed below the Gold King Mine that are collecting sediment before entering Cement Creek as seen on Aug. 19, 2015,…
