New Mexico

New Mexico halts some oil-field lease sales in standoff over royalty rates

Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard: “I am a fiduciary on behalf of the school kids. It’s my job to make…

March 8, 2024

Legal cannabis sales breach $1 billion since April 2022

From those sales, $75 million in cannabis excise taxes were collected

March 7, 2024

Biden backs RECA legislation ahead of vote

President Joe Biden speaks during a stop in Belen, New Mexico, on Aug. 9, 2023. Biden supported expanding the Radiation…

March 7, 2024

Stansbury explains the funding bill that could avert a shutdown

The $450 billion package would provide funding for certain federal departments

March 7, 2024

Will a mandatory 180 days in the classroom help New Mexico?

New Mexico ranks last when it comes to education

March 7, 2024

Gov. largely accepts Legislature’s spending plans as veto deadline passes

Lujan Grisham calls record state budget ‘carefully considered’

March 7, 2024

‘Rust’ armorer’s trial gives Alec Baldwin’s team a window

Baldwin’s trial is scheduled for July and will involve the same judge and prosecutors

March 7, 2024

Attorney general gets funding for proposed missing and murdered Indigenous people task force

Funding allocation ‘represents a critical opportunity to make tangible progress’ in addressing the crisis

March 7, 2024

‘Rust’ armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter

The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on movie set

March 7, 2024

Judge sentences defendants in terrorism case to life in prison

Defendants plan to appeal

March 7, 2024

Colorado River Basin reservoirs will not reach critically low levels – for now

Federal officials say the worst has been staved off – for now

March 6, 2024

New Energy Economy appeals PNM rates to N.M. Supreme Court

Advocacy group argues that the rate decrease should be even greater

March 6, 2024

Despite February snows, New Mexico drought to continue

As we embark into fire season those higher winds, dry fuels pose concerns

March 6, 2024

Defendants in U.S. terrorism and kidnapping case scheduled for sentencing in New Mexico

Each faces up to life in prison for their convictions

March 6, 2024

Antoine Predock, internationally renowned architect, dies at 87

Predock created buildings around the world, including human rights museum in Canada and the Padres baseball stadium in San Diego

March 6, 2024

Commercial air tours over New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument will soon be prohibited

Monument is said to have one of the largest concentrations of Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites in the Southwest.

March 5, 2024

Workplace safety regulator says management failed in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Complaints by a movie weapons supervisor to managers went unheeded as she sought more time…

March 5, 2024

Commercial air tours over New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument will soon be prohibited

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Commercial air tours over New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument and within a half-mile outside its…

March 5, 2024

Supreme Court victory for Trump may not mean anything for Couy Griffin in N.M.

A New Mexico judge barred Griffin for life from serving in elected federal and state positions

March 5, 2024

New Mexico governor signs bills aimed at improving health care affordability

One bill created a Health Care Authority for the state

March 5, 2024

New Mexico’s biggest districts ask for public input on budgets

Budgets will go into effect on July 1

March 5, 2024

Mexican gray wolves boost their numbers in southwest

A lack of genetic diversity remains a threat

March 5, 2024

Over-the-counter oral contraception to be on store shelves this month

Reproductive health advocates heralded the news

March 5, 2024

Governor signs gun bills and public health measures

One bill bans some guns at polls, another extends the waiting period to seven days

March 5, 2024