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Feds release long-awaited recovery plan for Mexican wolves

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – After repeated failures over decades, U.S. wildlife officials have finally drafted a recovery plan for endangered wolves that once roamed parts of the American Southwest ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Multibillion-dollar contract for Los Alamos lab up for bid

Criticism of safety record intensifies as plutonium pit production resumes

DATE: Jun 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Education chief: New Mexico schools need modern solutions

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is seeing higher graduation rates and more students are reading at grade level thanks to reforms made over the past several years, but a top state education official...

DATE: Jun 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Fire crews in New Mexico brace for hot, dry weather

Smoke blanketed much of the Jemez Mountains on Friday as firefighters battled a blaze that forced evacuations and the closure of a highway through one of northern New Mexico’s popular mounta...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico fire prompts evacuation of as many as 200

Firefighters faced hot, dry conditions as they tried to get a handle on a blaze that grew out of control Thursday, prompting evacuations in one of New Mexico’s popular mountain getaways and ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Guidelines developed for drilling near Chaco Canyon

Planning area encompasses 6,500 square miles in northwest New Mexico

DATE: Jun 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Testing time for New Mexico students to be reduced

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico students will spend less time taking standardized tests and will have two additional weeks of learning time under changes announced Tuesday by New Mexico Public Educ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Archives reveal more about death of lawman who killed Billy the Kid

Death of lawman who killed Billy the Kid is explained

DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Professors rescue design drawings for neon signs on Route 66

ALBUQUERQUE – They were just a bunch of old business records belonging to New Mexico’s oldest and largest sign-making shop, the last of the manufacturers from neon’s midcentury heyday. ...

DATE: May 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

University of New Mexico spending under review

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The state Auditor’s Office is reviewing the spending of public money by the University of New Mexico’s athletic department on a 2015 golf trip to Scotland that included t...

DATE: May 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: College Sports

New ‘delicioso’ postage stamps dedicated to Latino cuisine

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – From the kitchen table to the mail, the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday, April 20, recognized the influence of Latino foods and flavors on American cuisine with the relea...

DATE: Apr 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Drought planning: Water shortages expected in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – In all but one corner of New Mexico, water managers are projecting shortages in drinking and irrigation supplies given expected demand and variability in rainfall over the next...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life