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Susan Montoya Bryan
Position: The Associated Press

Guidelines developed for drilling near Chaco Canyon

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

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...

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

Death of lawman who killed Billy the Kid is explained

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

New Mexico hit by ‘flash drought’ weather phenomenon

ALBUQUERQUE – Across New Mexico, unusually warm March weather and virtually no rain for a month prompted dust storms that closed highways, warnings for some to stay inside and rapid mountain...

No changes for San Juan Generating Station with Trump order

ALBUQUERQUE – Part of a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is still scheduled for retirement despite President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday to roll back measures aim...

She thought someone passed out drunk

ALBUQUERQUE – What sounded like someone knocking on a window late one night turned out to be gunfire erupting in a small community on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. ...

Fallen Navajo officer called fearless, hilarious at service

Since he was a young boy, Houston James Largo had dreams of one day wearing a uniform and a badge and helping communities on the nation’s largest Native American reservation, where he grew u...

Case closed: Death of treasure hunter remains a mystery

ALBUQUERQUE – The case of a man who moved to the American West to search for $2 million in hidden treasure but turned up dead in New Mexico’s backcountry was officially closed after authorit...