Groups urge feds to release more Mexican gray wolves
N.M. wildlife officials had blocked release permits
DATE: Oct 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Susan Montoya Bryan
Position: The Associated Press
Arborist testifies in wildfire case
BERNALILLO, N.M. – An electric cooperative wasn’t following industry standards for ensuring the area along one of its power lines was clear of potentially hazardous vegetation when an aspen ...
DATE: Oct 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Group sues N.M. power plant
ALBUQUERQUE – Environmentalists asked the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday to disqualify all but one member of a powerful state regulatory board in a case that will determine the fate of a...
DATE: Oct 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
New charge added to list against top N.M. official
ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran was charged Friday with identity theft as she faces dozens of other counts alleging campaign finance fraud.
The state atto...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
N.M. tree-cutting law overturned
ALBUQUERQUE – A federal court has struck down a state law that gave New Mexico counties the authority to remove trees and clear overgrown areas on national forest land without having to get ...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Senator announces legislation in wake of mine-waste spill
ALBUQUERQUE – The federal government would be required to identify the most dangerous abandoned mines in the West and make plans to clean them under legislation introduced Tuesday in respons...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
N.M. energy regulators accused of being too close with utility
ALBUQUERQUE – Members of a powerful New Mexico regulatory body are too “chummy” with utility executives and should not be allowed to make decisions about the fate of a coal-fired power plant...
DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Lawmakers to discuss impeaching N.M. official
Secretary of state accused of fraud, embezzlement
DATE: Aug 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Drought done, but N.M. utilities push for conservation
ALBUQUERQUE – Water managers across New Mexico aren’t giving up on their push for residents to conserve water even though severe drought has disappeared.
For the first time in mor...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Thousands expected for Indian Market
94th annual show believed to be the world’s largest of its kind
DATE: Aug 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Judge denies N.M. drilling injunction
ALBUQUERQUE – A federal judge has rejected an effort by environmental groups to stall oil-and-gas development in northwestern New Mexico while they fight the approval of dozens of drilling p...
DATE: Aug 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Blue Hole: An oasis in N.M.’s desert
SANTA ROSA, N.M. – In an otherwise arid stretch of eastern New Mexico is a seemingly bottomless, deep blue swimming hole that has built up quite a reputation.
Local legend has it ...
DATE: Jul 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
