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Report: Childhood poverty persists in fast-growing Southwest

SANTA FE – The number of children living in poverty has swelled over the past three decades in fast-growing, ethnically diverse states such as Texas, Arizona and Nevada as the nation’s popul...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico proposes new cap on medical pot production

SANTA FE – New Mexico proposed new pot production rules Tuesday intended to shore up supplies to its medical marijuana program without flooding the rapidly expanding market. Under...

DATE: Jun 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico adds opioid use to conditions for medical pot

SANTA FE – A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction. New ...

DATE: Jun 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Desert procession marks death of Navajo code talker

SANTA FE – The state Capitol echoed with tributes to the life and times of Navajo Code Talker and state legislator John Pinto on Wednesday after his casket traveled in a memorial procession ...

DATE: May 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. governor seeks reimbursement from U.S. for migrant aid

SANTA FE – Financial and logistical support for border communities coping with an influx of asylum-seeking migrants are on the agenda as the governor of New Mexico travels Tuesday to Washing...

DATE: May 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Space-tourism dream edges toward reality in New Mexico

Branson moving vehicles, personnel to New Mexico desert

DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico reaches settlement on childcare assistance rules

SANTA FE – A judge has approved a legal settlement aimed at providing more uniform and predictable access to childcare-assistance subsidies overseen by the New Mexico Children, Youth and Fam...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to market ‘green bonds’ for energy conservation

SANTA FE – New Mexico plans to issue specialized green bonds as it borrows roughly $12 million to complete efficiency and renewable energy upgrades on a fleet of state buildings in the capit...

DATE: May 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico governor signals new approach to pardons

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signaled a new and more holistic approach to evaluating requests for pardons and other forms of clemency in guidelines published Wednesday. ...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Federal grand jury indicts leader of armed border group

SANTA FE – A federal grand jury has indicted on a weapons charge the leader of an armed group that has been detaining asylum-seeking families from Central America near the Mexico border, the...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico invests millions to bolster census participation

SANTA FE – New Mexico launched a multimillion-dollar effort Tuesday to ensure an accurate census count of its heavily Hispanic and Native American population, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard...

DATE: Apr 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2020 could disrupt New Mexico’s all-male Senate lineage

SANTA FE – A woman is knocking on the door of an enduring boys’ club in New Mexico politics, as Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver signals her interest in the 2020 race for U.S. Senat...

DATE: Apr 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News