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Holy Week: New Mexico faithful find God beyond church walls

ALBUQUERQUE – While it pains him, the head of one of the oldest Catholic dioceses in the United States says this Holy Week will be different for tens of thousands of parishioners in New Mexi...

Coronavirus forces new approaches to fighting wildfires

BOISE, Idaho – They are two disasters that require opposite responses: To save lives and reduce the spread of COVID-19, people are being told to remain isolated. But in a wildfire, thousands...

New Mexico rural hospital gets US virus aid compensation

SANTA FE – Rural hospitals that have suspended non-urgent procedures while bracing for a surge in coronavirus patients have begun receiving a temporary financial lifeline from the federal go...

Colorado reaches 227 coronavirus deaths; Polis: ‘many more losses ahead’

First prison inmate tests positive for virus

New Mexico’s senior US senator endorses Joe Biden

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s senior U.S. senator is throwing his support behind Joe Biden in the race for president. Democrat Tom Udall announced his endorsement in a message on soc...

New Mexico state police to crack down as virus cases go up

FARMINGTON – New Mexico State Police are cracking down on businesses that aren’t abiding by the governor’s public health orders as new confirmed cases pushed the state’s total higher on Wedn...

Nine people test positive for COVID-19 in Farmington care home

FARMINGTON – Every resident at a northern New Mexico nursing home was tested for the coronavirus after two residents and seven employees tested positive for COVID-19, a care home company sai...

Several Kirtland base missions being moved to Space Force

ALBUQUERQUE – The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base says some of its missions will soon come under control of the U.S. Space Force. The laboratory announc...

GOP wants mail-in ballots by request only in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Legal battle lines were being drawn Wednesday in a standoff over alternatives to in-person voting amid a coronavirus stay-at-home order and targeted curfew in New Mexico, where De...

Girl who inspired Charlotte’s Web marijuana oil dies

DENVER – A girl with a rare form of epilepsy whose recovery inspired the name of a medical marijuana oil that drew families of children with similar health problems to Colorado for treatment...

Census: New Mexico response rate near bottom among states

ALBUQUERQUE – There’s more work to be done in New Mexico, where federal officials say just over one-third of households have responded to the 2020 Census. About a month into the s...

Cortez fire crews respond to uncontrolled burns

No structures lost in back-to-back calls