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Groups: Retaliation after migrants report detention center

ESTANCIA, N.M. – Migrants held by U.S. authorities at a detention center in rural New Mexico have endured retaliation rather than aid after reporting unsanitary conditions at the government-...

DATE: Sep 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico candidate ends gun giveaway tied to $100 donations

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s Republican nominee for secretary of state has removed an online campaign flyer that offered the chance to receive a firearm in return for $100 donations to her campai...

DATE: Sep 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico braces for exodus from Medicaid insurance

SANTA FE – New Mexico is bracing for a rapid exodus of up to 100,000 people from subsidized Medicaid health care next year as the federal government phases out special pandemic-era spending ...

DATE: Sep 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico previously bused migrants during Trump years

SANTA FE – When migrants overwhelmed cities and shelters in New Mexico in 2019, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham moved several dozen of them by bus from border communities to Denver, w...

DATE: Sep 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Cowboys for Trump co-founder appeals ban from public office

SANTA FE – A New Mexico politician and Trump supporter who was removed and barred from elected office for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, is attempting to appeal that deci...

DATE: Sep 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico judiciary endorses elimination of some court fees

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s judiciary has endorsed the elimination of court fees for traffic violations and some misdemeanor criminal cases that can have a disproportionate effect on the poor, a...

DATE: Sep 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico won’t deny law licenses over immigration status

SANTA FE – New Mexico will no longer deny licenses to practice law solely because of an applicant’s citizenship or immigration status, including some aspiring law students who arrived in the...

DATE: Aug 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

‘Breaking Bad’ statues shine light on actors, Albuquerque

Show and its prequel ‘Better Call Saul’ helped fuel filmmaking across New Mexico

DATE: Aug 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. judge OKs online publication of New Mexico voter records

SANTA FE – A conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records from across the country online for public consumption can move forward over the objections of New Mexico ele...

DATE: Jul 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Southern New Mexico county says abortion clinics not welcome

SANTA FE – A local government board in southern New Mexico approved a message Thursday saying that abortion clinics are not welcome in politically conservative Otero County – even though sta...

DATE: Jul 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Doctors urge access to psychedelic therapies in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Physicians and researchers are urging New Mexico legislators to allow the use of psychedelic mushrooms in mental health therapy aimed at overcoming depression, anxiety, psychologi...

DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor withstands lawsuits over pandemic orders

SANTA FE – New Mexico residents who say they endured constitutional rights violations, depression and anxiety under aggressive public health restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak have...

DATE: Jul 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico