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New Mexico advances police accountability, anti-racism bills

SANTA FE – New Mexico lawmakers on Saturday were trying to address festering problems of police accountability and craft new civil rights protections for minorities, all within the span of a...

DATE: Jun 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Activists take aim at conquistador statues in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Two public statues of Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate in New Mexico are drawing renewed attention and criticism as memorials erected in honor of Confederate leaders and other hist...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Financial crisis looms over New Mexico cities, counties

SANTA FE – Local governments from Roswell to Santa Fe are being swept away in the “economic tsunami” of the coronavirus pandemic and may fall back on the state for financial aid, a leading s...

DATE: Jun 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico will lift many business restrictions on June 1

Restaurants can open at 50% of maximum capacity

DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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...

DATE: May 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: May 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

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. ...

DATE: May 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: May 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: May 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: May 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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. ...

DATE: May 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: May 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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