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Cash-strapped New Mexico takes back construction funds

SANTA FE – New Mexico will cancel 115 state-funded construction projects and refinance others to close a major budget gap, under a solvency bill signed on Friday by Gov. Susana Martinez. ...

Oil slump cripples New Mexico city finances

Bloomfield cuts city workers’ salaries, benefits

N.M. might pay water tab for Facebook data center

SANTA FE – New Mexico may use public funds to help Facebook pay for water rights at a major new data center proposed at Los Lunas, a town south of Albuquerque. The social media co...

Martinez: tax hikes ‘make no sense’

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez will not consider any tax increases as the state seeks to close a projected budget shortfall during an upcoming special session of the Legisl...

Ginsburg laments deadlocks on short-handed court

U.S. Supreme Court justice speaks to N.M. Bar Association

New Mexico governor seeks to reinstate death penalty

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez announced Wednesday plans to attempt to reinstate the death penalty in response to recent events including the killing of a police officer. ...

New Mexico pension funds miss targets for returns

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s two major public pension funds have missed targets for investment returns for a second consecutive year, likely pushing up unfunded liabilities that can extend the ti...

New Mexico governor orders agency spending reductions

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez directed most major state agencies on Tuesday to institute spending cuts in response to a sharp downturn in tax receipts and other state revenues t...

New Mexico governor seeks solution on budget crunch

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez provided new indications Tuesday that the state may be headed toward a special legislative session to address dwindling state operating reserves. ...

Cheap gasoline syphons riders from New Mexico commuter train

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s distinctive commuter rail line cuts a breathtaking path through Native American tribal lands, past silhouetted mountain ranges and swaths of cottonwood trees along th...

New Mexico governor sets her own agenda at GOP convention

SANTA FE – A testy and guarded relationship between Donald Trump and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez shows little sign of change as she and other GOP delegates make their way to the Republic...

New Mexico redraws Medicaid cuts to hospital, dentists

Emergency room visits increasing