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Navajo Nation searches for funding to replace decrepit jails

FARMINGTON – Navajo Nation officials are in search of funding to replace two deteriorating tribal jails. U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan toured one in Shiprock, New Mexico, last week that...

DATE: Mar 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: Drought, heat in New Mexico wiped out acres of trees

SANTA FE – A new report says near-record heat and persistent drought in New Mexico wiped out more than 120,000 acres of ponderosa pine, spruce, piñon and other trees last year. Th...

DATE: Mar 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Columbine families gather to tell stories nearly 20 years after tragedy

Many speak of forgiveness and valuing human life

DATE: Mar 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Marijuana ER visits climb in Denver hospital study

Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot’s bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room. Inhaled marijuana caused the most severe pr...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man sentenced for abuse death of infant daughter

GREELEY – A Colorado man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison for causing the death of his infant daughter. The Greeley Tribune reports that 33-year-old Edward Be...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Key New Mexico, Texas oil highways getting upgrades

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Key highways in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas are getting much-needed upgrades to accommodate the rise in traffic from the region’s oil and gas boom. In ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico game commissioners asked to resign

ALBUQUERQUE – Members of an influential commission that governs hunting, fishing and other wildlife management activities across New Mexico have been asked to resign, Gov. Michelle Lujan Gri...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall won’t seek Senate re-election

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Senator Tom Udall announced Monday he will not seek re-election in 2020, opening a secure Democratic seat to competition and ending a chapter in a Western po...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Kirtland airmen involved in fatal street racing crash

ALBUQUERQUE – Kirtland Air Force Base says airmen were involved in a possible street-racing crash in Albuquerque that left a pedestrian dead. KOAT-TV reported Monday that base off...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico cannabis board to consider opioid addiction

SANTA FE, N.M. – It will be up to New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Board whether to recommend adding opioid addiction to the list of qualifying conditions for the state’s medical marijuana prog...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ex-New Mexico superintendent in crash still on payroll

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – A northern New Mexico school superintendent who resigned after he was cited by police for driving through a resident’s fence is still on the payroll. The Las Veg...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Rep. Alcon presented with Vietnam War medals

VILLAGE OF MILAN, N.M. – A New Mexico state lawmaker has finally received his medals for his service during the Vietnam War. The Gallup Independent reports Democratic Rep. Eliseo ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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