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Hospital officer: New Mexico at pivotal point with virus

ALBUQUERQUE – The chief medical officer for the largest hospital system in New Mexico said Thursday that the state is at a pivotal point with the coronavirus as a new high was set for the da...

DATE: Oct 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico building infrastructure for vaccine distribution

ALBUQUERQUE – It could be well into next year before a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, but top health officials in New Mexico said Tuesday that they have submitted their plan to the fe...

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico officials issue warning about hospital capacity

ALBUQUERQUE – If COVID-19 continues to spread in New Mexico like it has in recent weeks, officials with three of the largest health care systems in the state warned Monday that hospitals and...

DATE: Oct 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Business mandates mount as New Mexico deals with virus surge

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday unveiled more requirements for businesses after a string of record-breaking daily case counts prompted renewed restrictions ju...

DATE: Oct 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico governor renews restrictions as virus cases rise

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday she will renew public health restrictions and warned that more stringent rules could be imposed because of a rise in CO...

DATE: Oct 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Push on to protect historic sites outside Chaco park

Survey finds about 4,200 ancient locations

DATE: Oct 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Managers warn that Rio Grande could go dry in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE – Federal managers are warning that if hot and dry conditions persist, it’s possible that the stretch of the Rio Grande flowing through Albuquerque could dry up this fall. ...

DATE: Sep 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Court weighs tribes’ aboriginal water claims for Jemez River

ALBUQUERQUE – A decades-long battle over a northern New Mexico river has taken another turn, as a panel of federal appellate judges has reversed a lower court ruling by determining that the ...

DATE: Sep 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

COVID-19 cases, rate of spread trending up in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Health officials said Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 cases and the rate of transmission are on the rise in New Mexico, leaving the state trailing when it comes to two of i...

DATE: Sep 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Climatologist: Dry areas in U.S. Southwest getting drier

BERNALILLO, N.M. – A sliver of water runs under the bridge here as sand bars and thickets of willow come closer to choking off the Rio Grande as it flows through New Mexico. It’s ...

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque aims to save spirit of annual balloon fiesta

ALBUQUERQUE – Fall in Albuquerque just isn’t fall without the annual international hot air balloon fiesta, with its massive morning ascensions filling the skies with colorful balloons from a...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Western wildfire smoke causes East Coast haze, vivid sunsets

The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country – and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forci...

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life