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New Mexico offers COVID-19 testing for utility workers

SANTA FE – New Mexico health officials are offering coronavirus testing for utility workers as part of a statewide effort to keep essential workers in various fields safe and healthy. ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Activists take aim at conquistador statues in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Two public statues of Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate in New Mexico are drawing renewed attention and criticism as memorials erected in honor of Confederate leaders and other hist...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor wants voting reform, police body cameras

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's Democratic governor wants the Legislature to wade into potentially volatile issues of election procedure and police accountability during a special session...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico health officials report 10 new COVID-19 deaths

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) â€” New Mexico is reporting an additional 121 coronavirus cases, bringing the statewide total 9,367. The Health Department on Thursday also reported 10 new dea...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Female bear and cubs returned to wilderness in New Mexico

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. â€“ A female bear and three cubs found raiding the neighborhood trash in Los Alamos have been safely captured and moved to a new, more appropriate hunting ground in the coun...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Head of New Mexico’s African American Affairs office resigns

SANTA FE – The head of the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs has resigned. Executive Director William Scott Carreathers didn’t provide a reason for his immediate resig...

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agency to provide COVID-19 tests at offices for food workers

SANTA FE – State officials are setting aside time slots for food industry workers for COVID-19 testing at numerous New Mexico Department of Health field offices statewide. The Dep...

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico AG calls for uniform use of force policies

ALBUQUERQUE – Attorney General Hector Balderas on Tuesday called for police reforms amid the latest round of protests in New Mexico and elsewhere over excessive force. Balderas sa...