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Northern New Mexico district to pick its first congresswoman

SANTA FE – The two major party candidates competing to become the first woman to represent a Democrat-dominated New Mexico district squared off in their first televised debate Thursday that ...

DATE: Oct 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico swing-district debate hinges on oil, border

SANTA FE – New Mexico GOP congressional challenger Yvette Herrell embraced President Donald Trump’s border-wall strategy and burnished an anti-abortion, pro-petroleum philosophy in a bid to ...

DATE: Oct 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Democrats dominate 1st day of voting in Albuquerque area

SANTA FE – Democrats cast nearly half of the ballots across New Mexico during the first day of early and absentee voting, while registered Republicans accounted for about 38% of participatio...

DATE: Oct 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor self-quarantining after staff member gets virus

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has tested negative for the coronavirus after a custodian at the governor’s mansion was diagnosed with COVID-19. The governor is self-quaran...

DATE: Oct 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge rebuffs bid to ease pandemic limits at private schools

SANTA FE – A federal judge has turned down an initial request to ease pandemic-related occupancy limits for in-person instruction at private schools in New Mexico, in a setback for a lawsuit...

DATE: Oct 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Demand surges for absentee ballots across New Mexico

SANTA FE – Voters across New Mexico have submitted nearly 250,000 absentee ballot requests with especially strong demand among Democrats for alternatives to in-person voting amid the pandemi...

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Push to reopen private schools arrives in federal court

SANTA FE – A federal judge on Wednesday weighed whether pandemic-related occupancy limits on private schools in New Mexico violate constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of as...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Justice Department sees bias in class-capacity limits in N.M. private schools

SANTA FE – The U.S. Justice Department sided Monday with the father of a seventh grade prep school student in a lawsuit that challenges pandemic-related limits on classroom capacity at priva...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor says Trump ‘botched’ pandemic response

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is sending campaign emails that accuse President Donald Trump of “single-handedly botching” the nation’s coronavirus response. Go...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico taps federal money to install ballot drop boxes

SANTA FE – New Mexico is prepared to spend millions of dollars in federal recovery money to install drop boxes for absentee ballots as election regulators encourage voters to participate in ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildfires put Republican meteorologist candidate in hot seat

SANTA FE – Political clashes about the role of climate change in catastrophic West Coast infernos are spilling into a U.S. Senate race in New Mexico, where a Republican meteorologist is camp...

DATE: Sep 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to grocery stores: Stop taxing food on deliveries

SANTA FE – New Mexico state taxation authorities on Wednesday urged grocery stores to stop unnecessarily collecting sales taxes on food that is delivered during the coronavirus pandemic. ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food