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Albuquerque breaks homicide record amid worries over crime

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest city has broken its modern homicide record amid increasing concerns about violent crime and recent questions about how officials were calculating crime sta...

DATE: Dec 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Scientist: Complaints about rodent infestation led to firing

SOCORRO, N.M. – A New Mexico scientist says she was fired from a New Mexico Tech lab job after complaining about a rodent infestation. Chemical engineer Glenanne Johnson was termi...

DATE: Dec 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawsuit: New Mexico officer mistakenly fired gun during stop

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Two New Mexico men say a Las Cruces police officer accidentally shot at them during a routine traffic stop and unlawfully held them for three hours. A civil rig...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utility regulators weigh costs of coal phase-out

SANTA FE – Miners, environmentalists and utility customers weighed in Monday about the future of a major coal-fired power plant in New Mexico and a disputed financial plan to shutter the fac...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

University to end funding for Colorado student news outlet

DENVER – The University of Colorado Boulder’s media college announced Monday that it will stop funding its student-run news outlet. The Denver Post reports the university plans...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Planned Parenthood shooting suspect faces federal charges

DENVER – A man who has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in state court in the killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Clinic in 2015 is now facing federal char...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

35% of Colorado high school students earning college credit

DENVER – Colorado education officials say students are earning college credit while still studying for their high school diplomas. The Colorado Sun reports that about 35% of publi...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Backcountry skier killed in northern Colorado avalanche

FORT COLLINS – A 29-year-old woman has died in an avalanche while skiing in northern Colorado, where communities along the Rocky Mountains have seen record or near-record snowfall since Sept...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. government plans to make good on 143-year-old land debt to Colorado

DENVER – The U.S. government wants to make good on a 143-year-old debt it has owed since Colorado became a state by transferring more than 23,000 acres of land and mineral rights to the Colo...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico granting fewer cyanide bomb OKs for coyotes

SANTA FE – Records show New Mexico agricultural officials have approved fewer licenses for the use of cyanide bombs – a device deployed by ranchers to kill coyotes. The Santa F...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico detective facing DWI charges fired

The Associated Press LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A Las Cruces police detective arrested in October on drunken driving charges has been fired. Las Cruces police spokesman Dan Tru...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Study: Colorado homes near oil wells face lower values

DENVER – Colorado’s most active oil and gas drilling is happening near land that is also hosting some of the fastest housing construction in the state. Until now, it was hard to k...

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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