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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...

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...

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...

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....

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. ...

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...

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...

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. ...

Heavy rains fall on area burned by wildfire near Aspen

ASPEN – 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...

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...

Environmentalists seek to protect dunes sagebrush lizard

CARLSBAD, N.M. – A small lizard native to southeast New Mexico is the latest animal to spark a debate between environmentalists, the federal government and oil and gas operators. ...

US women’s volleyball team secures Olympics bid

Team USA tops Argentina to lock Tokyo Olympics berth