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Court clears way for public hearing on chromium plume at Los Alamos lab

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Court of Appeals has sided with a coalition of environmental groups that had repeatedly sought a public hearing related to the cleanup of chromium contamination ...

DATE: Jan 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Pecan weevil has New Mexico authorities on guard

An emergency quarantine aimed at stopping the spread of an invasive bug threatening New Mexico’s pecan industry will remain in place as the state looks to protect the largest pecan-growing c...

DATE: Dec 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

New Mexico looks into cleaning up old copper mine near Cuba

CUBA, N.M. – For decades, yellow- and white-tinged piles of waste from a defunct copper mine have covered the mountainside at the edge of the quintessential New Mexico village of Cuba – out ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Deadly New Mexico shootings, politics make headlines in 2017

ALBUQUERQUE – Two deadly shootings in opposite corners of the state and a crime rampage that left five people dead across northern New Mexico are among the stories that made headlines in 201...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. delegates renew push to limit drilling outside of Chaco Canyon

ALBUQUERQUE – Democratic members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are renewing their pleas for federal land managers to limit oil and natural gas drilling in the northwestern corner ...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wind farm agreement highlights New Mexico businesses, labor

ALBUQUERQUE – The state attorney general’s office and advocacy groups have brokered an agreement with a utility that is planning to build a massive wind farm near the Texas-New Mexico border...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Shutdown starts at New Mexico coal-fired power plant serving Southwest

Second unit at San Juan Generating Station will be closed over the weekend

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New Mexico oil and gas companies sign on to reduce emissions

ALBUQUERQUE – Some of the biggest names in energy production in New Mexico have signed on to a national effort within the oil and gas industry to curb methane emissions as pressure mounts fo...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

A year after girl killed, Navajo Nation to get alert system

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – More than a year after a Native American girl was killed and her tribe was criticized for not having an alert system in place when children go missing, the Navajo Nation ...

DATE: Dec 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2018 plan for Mexican wolves calls for fostering of pups

ALBUQUERQUE â€“ Federal wildlife officials have a plan for fostering as many as a dozen captive Mexican gray wolf pups with packs in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico in 2018. Th...

DATE: Dec 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. adopts recovery plan for Mexican wolves in the Southwest

ALBUQUERQUE – After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to gu...

DATE: Nov 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Tribal leaders take aim at oil and gas development

BERNALILLO, N.M. – Native American activists and tribal leaders from around New Mexico are joining the chorus of environmentalists who have been fighting for years to stop oil and gas develo...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News