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New Mexico foresees robust growth in state government income

SANTA FE – Forecasts for state government income have increased slightly as New Mexico legislators prepare to meet in January to craft a general fund budget. The state’s top taxation officia...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Risk of quakes caused by oil, gas in New Mexico rising

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Multiple earthquakes were felt earlier this fall in West Texas, leading regulators in that state to designate a seismic response area and call for less wastewater from oil...

DATE: Nov 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Police: 3 students shot in Denver-area school parking lot

AURORA – Three students were shot Friday during a fight in the parking lot of a high school in the Denver suburb of Aurora, the police chief said, only days after six teenagers from a nearby...

DATE: Nov 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cops search four Colorado locations in election security probe

GRAND JUNCTION – A law enforcement task force searched four western Colorado locations amid an investigation into allegations that an elections clerk was involved in a security breach of ele...

DATE: Nov 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico agency investigating killing of bear near Taos

TAOS – New Mexico authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a bear with arrows along a road near Taos. Game and Fish Department spokesman James Pitman told the Albuquerque Journal ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Dolphin Tale’ fans mourn death of film’s star Winter at 16

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Amy Carmichael lives more than 4,000 miles from the Florida aquarium that housed Winter, the “Dolphin Tale” movie star with a prosthetic tail that died this week at 16. Bu...

DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Eunice moves ahead with desalination project

EUNICE, N.M. – One southeastern New Mexico city is taking another step forward as it looks for an “unlimited” source of water. Eunice City Council recently voted to have a Hobbs-based engin...

DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Hopis re-elect chairman, vote out incumbent vice chairman

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – The chairman of the Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona has won another term in office and will have a new vice chairman, according to unofficial results from Thursday's ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Officials: Colorado could see record COVID-19 hospitalizations

DENVER – Colorado plans to expand hospital capacity and staffing amid an ongoing surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations that could surpass a record high for the state set in 2020, Gov. Jared Pol...

DATE: Nov 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Some Denver area schools close, go remote due to shortages

DENVER – Some Denver area schools are switching to remote learning or canceling classes this week because of staffing shortages. Schools in the Adams 14, Boulder Valley and Adams 12 Five Sta...

DATE: Nov 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico considers hourly $15 minimum for state workers

SANTA FE – Momentum appears to be building behind proposals to lift minimum pay in New Mexico state government to $15 an hour for at least 1,200 public workers who make less than that, amid ...

DATE: Nov 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Albuquerque marks 101st homicide in 2021, a record

ALBUQUERQUE – The city of Albuquerque has now surpassed 100 homicides since the start of the year. A man officers found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Sunday night near Mountain Road...