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Official: Many in New Mexico eligible for COVID-19 vaccine

ALBUQUERQUE – A significant number of New Mexico residents are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations because they have one or more preexisting medical conditions, the state health secretary...

DATE: Jan 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utilities look ahead to renewable energy mandates

ALBUQUERQUE – A solar project meant to provide 10% of Gallup’s electricity for the next two decades is falling short of expectations, highlighting just one of the challenges as investor-owne...

DATE: Jan 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico opens vaccine distribution to more people

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is moving ahead with COVID-19 vaccine distribution, expanding eligibility on Friday to people 75 and older as well as residents with underlying medical conditions th...

DATE: Jan 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

National Park Service releases video involving tasing of visitor

National Park Service releases video of incident, says man climbing on petroglyphs

DATE: Dec 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utility has plan for growing electric vehicle use

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest electric provider has a plan for incentivizing the buildout of infrastructure that would be needed to bolster the use of electric vehicles in the expansive...

DATE: Dec 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico makes push with at-home COVID-19 test kits

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico health officials said Tuesday they are hoping to boost the number of people getting tested for COVID-19 through a new program that will provide free, at-home test ki...

DATE: Dec 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More shipments of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Thousands of front-line health care workers in New Mexico have received the COVID-19 vaccine, and officials with a few of the state’s major hospitals said Monday that they expe...

DATE: Dec 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. Supreme Court sides with New Mexico in Pecos River fight

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with New Mexico in a fight with Texas over the Pecos River, issuing a decision that involves evaporation and New Mexico’s obligations to ...

DATE: Dec 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Vaccine arrives in New Mexico as deaths mark another high

ALBUQUERQUE – The first coronavirus vaccines arrived in New Mexico on Monday as hospitals prepared to distribute doses to frontline health care workers. Shipments arrived at the N...

DATE: Dec 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico prepared for rationing care if pandemic worsens

ALBUQUERQUE – Top health officials say New Mexico has a solid plan in place to stretch hospital and health care resources as far as possible before having to ration care, but they also warne...

DATE: Dec 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico agencies seek more funding amid virus pressures

ALBUQUERQUE – Two of the state agencies that have been key in New Mexico’s response to the coronavirus pandemic laid out their spending requests to a panel of state lawmakers Friday, citing ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico surpasses 100K infections, reports 40 deaths

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico marked more grim milestones Wednesday with confirmed COVID-19 infections surpassing the 100,000 mark and the daily death toll reaching a new high as some public heal...

DATE: Dec 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News