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Morgan Lee
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Former spy, issues of Trump loyalty weigh in New Mexico vote

SANTA FE – New Mexico is deciding on final contenders in open races for a U.S. Senate seat and a congressional slot that last changed hands a dozen years ago. The retirement of Se...

Outbreak on edge of Navajo Nation overwhelms rural hospital

GALLUP, N.M. – On the eve of New Mexico’s shutdown of bars and restaurants to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the city of Gallup came alive for one last night of revelry. Befo...

Latina New Mexico governor calls VP speculation ‘flattering’

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she will help make sure that racial- and ethnic-minority voters know about the potential benefits of electing Joe Biden as president. ...

New Mexico’s Medicaid enrollment rises during pandemic

SANTA FE – New Mexico health insurance regulators say statewide enrollment in Medicaid is increasing as businesses shed workers in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Medicaid e...

Outbreak on edge of Navajo Nation overwhelms rural hospital

GALLUP, N.M. – On the eve of New Mexico’s closure of bars and restaurants to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the city of Gallup came alive for one last night of revelry. Befor...

New Mexico auditor pressures Gallup hospital for records

SANTA FE – Leaders of a critical care hospital in the middle of a coronavirus hot spot in Gallup, New Mexico, are coming under mounting pressure to comply with a financial audit amid complai...

Small tribes seal borders, push testing to keep out virus

PICURIS PUEBLO, N.M. – On a dusty plaza in a Native American village that dates back nearly a millennium, a steady trickle of vehicles inched through a pop-up coronavirus testing site. ...

New Mexico town near vast reservation shuts everyone out

GALLUP, N.M. – Like clockwork, payday arrives and tens of thousands of people from the Navajo reservation and other rural stretches along the New Mexico-Arizona border flood into Gallup, a f...

Memo outlines budget hole for New Mexico state government

SANTA FE – The economic fallout in New Mexico from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to wipe out between $2.1 billion and $3.9 billion in previously anticipated state government income by m...

Absentee ballot push begins for New Mexico’s June 2 primary

SANTA FE – Election authorities are starting to distribute absentee ballots in a concerted effort to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission at polling places in New Mexico’s June 2 prim...

New Mexico blocks roads into Gallup as virus cases surge

ALBUQUERQUE – The governor of New Mexico invoked the state’s Riot Control Act on Friday as she sealed off all roads to nonessential traffic in the city of Gallup to help control a surging co...

Virus forecast model from defense team in Los Alamos draws attention

SANTA FE – A team of national defense scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory that studies contagions with award-winning accuracy has developed its own U.S. forecast for the spread of t...