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Police: Woman, child in car seat found dead on highway in New Mexico

GALLUP, N.M. – New Mexico authorities say a truck driver faces felony charges for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in which a woman and an infant in a car seat were found dead alon...

Biden’s pause on oil and gas development on public lands splits conservationists, industry

Energy producers predict billions in losses for Western communities

Democrats defend status quo on abortion access in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Democratic state senators advanced a bill Monday to repeal New Mexico’s dormant, 50-year-old ban on most abortion procedures that could go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court ov...

Colorado judges deny many virus requests to release inmates

COLORADO SPRINGS – Out of dozens of requests for sentence reductions from inmates with health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic, federal judges in Colorado approved just three in the fi...

Black girls wrongly held at gunpoint in Colorado file suit

DENVER – The families of four Black girls mistakenly detained by suburban Denver police at gunpoint last year after they were suspected of being in a stolen car sued police and the city of A...

Snow buries northern Arizona; flurries delight in desert

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A major winter storm buried northern Arizona in snow on Monday while sending flurries to the outskirts of Las Vegas and Phoenix, delighting desert dwellers. A s...

School bill challenges New Mexico virus restrictions

SANTA FE – A bipartisan group of New Mexico lawmakers is pushing legislation that would allow more students to attend class in person by shifting authority over decisions to reopen from stat...

Navajo Nation reports 89 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation health officials on Monday reported 89 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths as a revised public health order is set to take effect. The lat...

New Mexico reports nearly 860 new virus cases, 38 deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 859 additional COVID-19 cases and 38 more deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 168,579 cases and 3,115 deaths. Bernalillo C...

Bus heading to Grand Canyon rolls over; 1 dead, 2 critical

PHOENIX – A Las Vegas-based tour bus heading to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others, authorities said. ...

Colorado agency gets virus relief aid, reverses furloughs

DENVER – The Regional Transportation District in Colorado has halted layoffs for about 250 employees after it received more than $200 million from a $900 billion federal coronavirus relief a...

Carlsbad eyes converting university branch into college

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Carlsbad’s school board is voicing support for a proposal to convert the New Mexico State University branch campus in the southeastern New Mexico city into an independent co...