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Navajo Nation president: Still not safe to go out in public

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Additional deaths and COVID-19 cases on the Navajo Nation’s sprawling reservation indicate it’s still not safe for residents to go out in public, the tribe’s president s...

Polis meets with Trump to secure coronavirus supplies

DENVER – Gov. Jared Polis said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has committed to sending 96,000 tests for the coronavirus to Colorado in the next couple of days. Polis met wi...

New Mexico hit with infestation of moths after hibernation

ALBUQUERQUE – An infestation of moths has hit New Mexico amid an ideal climate for the invading bugs. KRQE-TV reports thousands of moths have been seen in state parks, outside o...

Unbearable grief: Coronavirus ravages the Navajo Nation

TUBA CITY, Arizona – The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball tournament and then made the long drive b...

Navajo Nation reports 41 new coronavirus cases, 1 more death

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation’s health department is reporting 41 new cases of coronavirus and one more death on the vast reservation. Tribal officials said there have be...

Panel to consider petition seeking Pecos River protections

ALBUQUERQUE – More than 200 miles of the Pecos River, its tributaries and other parts of the upper reaches of the northern New Mexico watershed would be protected from future degradation und...

New Mexico auditor pressures Gallup hospital for records

SANTA FE – Leaders of a critical care hospital in the middle of a coronavirus hot spot in Gallup, New Mexico, are coming under mounting pressure to comply with a financial audit amid complai...

Air Force commander found dead in home on Colorado base

COLORADO SPRINGS – The commander of a U.S. Air Force base in Colorado was found dead in his home on the base, officials said. Col. Thomas Falzarano was the commander of the 21st S...

State Department told to revisit sexual listing on passports

DENVER – Under a ruling from a federal appeals court, the U.S. State Department is once again being ordered to consider whether to grant an intersex person a passport if they do not specify ...

Stolen $5K marble sculpture found by joggers in Utah

LOGAN, Utah – A $5,000 marble sculpture has been found resting in a grassy field in northern Utah about two weeks after it was stolen from a local art business, authorities said. ...

Coronavirus surges with emergency order close to expiration

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is weighing whether to extend major provisions of an emergency health order that limits nonessential business activity and bans gatherings o...

New Mexico forester issues restrictions due to fire danger

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s state forester is imposing immediate restrictions on fireworks, campfires, smoking and open fires on all nonmunicipal, nonfederal and nontribal lands statewide becaus...