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Las Cruces to digitize permanent museum collection

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A southern New Mexico city will be able to digitize its permanent museum collection with the help of a $50,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation American Art Program. ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

EPA official defends work on New Mexico contamination issue

ALBUQUERQUE – An official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he hopes posturing by public officials in New Mexico won’t derail work being done by federal and state teams to b...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico judge broadens medical marijuana program

SANTA FE – A New Mexico judge has ordered state officials to issue identification cards for the medical marijuana program to all qualifying patients, including people who live outside the st...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Longtime Colorado reporter John Ensslin dies at 65

DENVER – John Ensslin, a longtime Colorado reporter and a former president of the Society of Professional Journalists, has died. He was 65. Colorado Politics, where Ensslin worked...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Group protests at Denver-area immigration detention center

AURORA – Activists protested at an immigration detention center in suburban Denver where a group of people last month replaced the American flag out front with a Mexican flag. Org...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor plans summit on domestic terrorism

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will be convening a summit to discuss ways to reduce the risk of domestic terrorist acts in the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas....

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Protest planned at Denver-area immigration detention center

AURORA – Activists are planning to protest at an immigration detention center in suburban Denver where a group of people last month replaced the American flag out front with a Mexican flag. ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 armed men handcuffed at police shooting protest in Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS – Two bail bondsmen were arrested Monday after they allegedly drew guns during a scuffle with demonstrators who were protesting the fatal police shooting of a robbery suspec...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

United to begin flights from Denver to Hobbs, New Mexico

HOBBS, N.M. – United Airlines has announced it will begin direct flights to Denver from a southeastern New Mexico county airport in the heart of New Mexico’s booming oil region. T...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gunman remains incompetent to stand trial in Colorado shooting

COLORADO SPRINGS – A man who acknowledged killing three people at a southern Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic nearly four years ago remains mentally incompetent to stand trial. ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Heavy rains fall on area burned by wildfire near Aspen

ASPEN â€“ Heavy rains fell on an area burned by a wildfire last year, triggering road closures from flooding and debris flows near a Colorado mountain town. The Aspen Daily New...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Several New Mexico football teams struggle to find players

ALBUQUERQUE – Declining student-athlete participation rates are hitting New Mexico high schools that are struggling to find football players to field teams. The falling participat...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News