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New Mexico considers retirement ‘double dipping’ for police

SANTA FE – Legislators are drafting a plan to ease restrictions against retired police officers coming back to work, in an effort to add law enforcement officers across New Mexico amid a lab...

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Man who fell from New Mexico sports skybox, son get payouts

SANTA FE – A man who fell from a luxury suite at a university sports arena in Albuquerque onto concrete stairs below has been awarded $144,000 under a state-negotiated settlement, according...

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Farmington exhibition focuses on birth of energy industry

First well drilled in 1921, but city’s population skyrocketed with second boom in 1950s

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico clears way for hospitals to ration care if needed

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico on Monday cleared the way for hospitals to ration care if necessary, saying the state’s health care system has yet to see a reprieve as the nursing shortage continue...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico needs to dedicate money to more conservation projects, groups say

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – The Land of Enchantment is home to vast forests and deserts, meandering rivers and streams and a variety of wildlife. Now a coalition of outdoor recreation and conservatio...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Valles Caldera volunteers in race to document dendroglyphs

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – The haunting calls of bugling bull elk pervade the autumn air, echoing across the grass valleys and forested lava domes of Valles Caldera National Preserve as a cadre...

DATE: Oct 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Advisory panel endorses redistricting maps for New Mexico

SANTA FE – An advisory board on redistricting endorsed several plans for realigning the boundaries of political districts across New Mexico on Friday, backing proposed congressional district...

DATE: Oct 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico explores public financing for cannabis businesses

SANTA FE – Small-scale marijuana businesses in New Mexico would receive access to publicly financed loans of up to $250,000 in an effort to promote social and economic fairness, under a prop...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But anot...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. nuclear repository completes key mining project in southern N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE – After seven years of mining, federal officials say work to carve out the eighth disposal area at the U.S. government’s underground nuclear waste repository is complete. Manage...

DATE: Oct 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Airman convicted of kidnapping, killing Farmington woman in 2020

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Sasha Krause loved words. She loved learning and translating them into different languages. She loved reading them in nursery rhymes and assembling them into poetry. She w...

DATE: Oct 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in state law

SANTA FE – In her first prepared speech Tuesday, the new leader of New Mexico’s child protection department pledged to restore the agency’s credibility after a series of scandals under her p...

DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico