Associated Press New Mexico

Northern N.M. ranch wants to use wildfire to educate children, people with disabilities

Yurts are surrounded by trees at Collins Lake Ranch on Monday. The ranch is a full-time home for people with…

September 16, 2022

Official: New Mexico horse racing still in the ‘dark ages’

Horses leave the starting gate at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino in Ruidoso, N.M., in 2010. A top horse racing…

September 16, 2022

Increasing pressures on Colorado River water in New Mexico

Researchers at the New Mexico State University Agricultural Science Center in Farmington work with alfalfa on July 22, 2020. Colorado…

September 14, 2022

Moth outbreak stresses trees in New Mexico forests

ALBUQUERQUE – An insect outbreak is believed to be causing conifer stands in some central New Mexico forests to lose…

September 14, 2022

Found: Alligator, drugs, guns, money. But where’s the tiger?

This undated image released by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish shows a missing tiger in Alburquerque. The animal…

September 12, 2022

U.S. to award $35M in grants to tribes for 988 crisis line

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Most people in Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico know each other. So when a tribal…

September 9, 2022

U.S. executive branch acknowledges N.M. Downwinders for the first time

brief meeting with Biden’s health secretary was ‘profound,’ group says

September 8, 2022

New Mexico banishes Trump ally from office for insurrection

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks to reporters as he arrives at federal court in Washington on June 17. A…

September 7, 2022

Santa Fe woman accused of embezzling nearly $600K from firm

SANTA FE – A Santa Fe woman has been accused of embezzling nearly $600,000 from a landscape architecture firm where…

September 5, 2022

New Mexico judiciary endorses elimination of some court fees

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s judiciary has endorsed the elimination of court fees for traffic violations and some misdemeanor criminal…

September 4, 2022

New Mexico teams rally for hospitalized football player

Organ Mountain football players celebrate their win during a game Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, at the Field of Dreams in…

September 4, 2022

New Mexico Supreme Court details ruling on stream access

Boaters navigate the shallow Rio Grande as it flows through Rio Rancho, N.M., Aug. 31. New Mexico and other southwestern…

September 1, 2022

New Mexico governor pledges $10M for new abortion clinic

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has tested negative for the coronavirus after a custodian at the governor’s mansion was…

August 31, 2022

Researchers: Pretrial detention plans wouldn’t reduce crime

ALBUQUERQUE – Legislative proposals intended to make it easier to keep certain criminal defendants in jail while awaiting trial would…

August 31, 2022

New Mexico governor issues pardons to 6 people

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday pardoned six people for convictions ranging from fraud and larceny to burglary…

August 29, 2022

Lawmakers ask about self-sufficiency of New Mexico spaceport

Virgin Galactic ground crew guide the company’s carrier plane into the hangar at Spaceport America after a test flight over…

August 29, 2022

NAACP supports removal of Cowboys for Trump cofounder

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin represents himsilf in a law suit to have him removed from office because of his…

August 29, 2022

Albuquerque woman accused of embezzling $175K from employer

SANTA FE – An Albuquerque woman is accused of embezzling more than $175,000 from her former employer over a six-year…

August 29, 2022

Afghan refugee enters not guilty plea in Muslim slayings

Syedonset ALBUQUERQUE – A lawyer for an Afghan refugee accused in the Albuquerque slayings of three Muslim men entered a…

August 26, 2022

New Mexico governor tests positive for COVID-19

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces an executive order aimed at ensuring safe harbor to people seeking abortions or…

August 25, 2022

New Mexico won’t deny law licenses over immigration status

A nominating commission interviews Supreme Court candidate Shannon Bacon, right, an Albuquerque-based district judge, at the Supreme Court in Santa…

August 23, 2022

Record-setting wildfire in New Mexico declared contained

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the active fire lines of the Hermits Peak wildfire, in Las Vegas,…

August 23, 2022

Afghan refugee faces murder charge in third Muslim killing

Syedonset ALBUQUERQUE – An Afghan refugee charged in the slayings of two Muslim men is facing new charges in connection…

August 22, 2022

N.M. city, victim of government burn, now faces water shortage

Burned trees are visible on Aug. 8 in Gallinas, N.M. Earlier this year the area endured the devastation of the…

August 22, 2022