Associated Press New Mexico

5 New Mexico jails less than half staffed; 1 moving inmates

ALBUQUERQUE – Five of New Mexico’s 26 county jails and detention centers are suffering from staff shortages that have pushed…

August 22, 2022

Employees at Santa Fe Starbucks store to pursue unionizing

Workers at a Santa Fe Starbucks are taking steps to unionize. (Associated Press file)onset SANTA FE – Workers at a…

August 19, 2022

Oil, gas revenues to drive New Mexico’s next budget windfall

Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. New Mexico in April reached a record level of oil production with…

August 18, 2022

Suspect in New Mexico Muslim killings detained pending trial

Muhammad Syed was ordered held without bond pending trial as prosecutors argued Wednesday that he was a danger to his…

August 17, 2022

Cowboys For Trump leader fighting to keep job in New Mexico

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin represents himself in a lawsuit to have him removed from office in First District Court…

August 16, 2022

Medical investigator rules Baldwin set shooting an accident

This aerial photo shows part of the Bonanza Creek Ranch film-set in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021. New…

August 15, 2022

Son of suspect in Muslim slayings to remain in custody

ALBUQUERQUE – The son of an Afghan refugee suspected in the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in New Mexico…

August 15, 2022

Suspect in 4 New Mexico killings left trail of violence

This Aug. 9, 2022, still image taken from officer video provided by the Albuquerque Police Department shows the arrest of…

August 13, 2022

New Mexico seeks proposals with mine spill settlement money

Wastewater from the Aug. 5, 2015, Gold King Mine spill fills the Animas River and flowed into other waterways in…

August 12, 2022

New Mexico’s Muslim community reels from arrest in killings

Ahmad Assed, president of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, addresses the killing of 27-year-old Muhammad Afzaal Hussain during a…

August 11, 2022

New Mexico abortion clinics strained over capacity with out-of-state patients

State’s health care worker shortage worsens access to general reproductive health care

August 10, 2022

Afghan man charged in killing of 2 Muslims in Albuquerque

Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody Monday in connection with the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque over…

August 9, 2022

Navajo presidential hopefuls select running mates from New Mexico

Buu Nygren campaigns for president of the Navajo Nation on Aug. 2 in Red Mesa, Arizona. Nygren picked Richelle Montoya,…

August 8, 2022

SUV barrels through Native American parade; 15 injured

started the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Centennial Celebration

August 6, 2022

Highway double take: Albuquerque sign spelled without ‘r’

A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city's name,…

July 28, 2022

New Mexico foundation to return Indigenous items to Mexico

Some of the Mexican antiquities returned to the country by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation are seen during a repatriation ceremony…

July 27, 2022

New Mexico expands gun safety efforts

petitions filed to have guns removed since red-flag law went into effect

July 26, 2022

U.S. judge OKs online publication of New Mexico voter records

A voter, left, provides a signature to receive a ballot at a makeshift polling station inside a parking garage in…

July 25, 2022

Southern New Mexico city to install safe haven ‘baby box’

HOBBS, N.M. – Hobbs city commissioners took a step toward saving the lives of unwanted newborns at a recent meeting…

July 25, 2022

2 dead, 1 missing in flooding in northern New Mexico

A sunset is seen through plumes wildfire smoke in Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7. Two people died and another…

July 23, 2022

With Rio Grande reduced to a trickle, river managers brace for more drying

Sand and gravel bars in the Rio Grande expand in the river’s reach through central New Mexico as monsoon clouds…

July 21, 2022

Fatally injured New Mexico helicopter crew member called 911

This image from video provided by KOAT, shows scene where four people were killed in a crash of a Bernalillo…

July 20, 2022

Crowd protests relocation of abortion clinic to New Mexico

Anti-abortion advocates listen to various speakers during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., on Tuesday.…

July 20, 2022

New Mexico tax changes benefit lower-income residents

A pump jack as seen March 30, 2022, in Tatum, N.M. The state’s direct financial reliance on the energy industry…

July 20, 2022