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New Mexico deploys absentee ballot drop boxes statewide

SANTA FE – Election officials are deploying ballot drop boxes across New Mexico for people who chose to cast absentee ballots without walking indoors during the upcoming Nov. 2 local electi...

DATE: Sep 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico cattle ranchers pummeled by western drought

Some are trying to restock herds thinned by dry years

DATE: Sep 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

US flag, sewn at POW camp, settles at Smithsonian

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Its beginnings were humble, but proud and brave, too. An American flag, assembled secretively and at risk in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, was fashioned out of pieces ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico reports 20 more COVID-19 deaths, most in months

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s pandemic death roll rose by 20 on Friday, the largest reported single-day increase in months. The state on Friday also reported 885 additional confirmed cases – the l...

DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico offers pay bump to prekindergarten teachers

SANTA FE – State officials responsible for early childhood education in New Mexico say that prekindergarten teachers deserve the same salaries as teachers of older students, and they’re will...

DATE: Sep 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico’s $37 million plan to recruit more teachers

SANTA FE – State education officials are offering to pay for the salaries of 500 teaching assistants and offer them tuition subsidies in a two-year effort to jump-start recruitment in K-12 s...

DATE: Sep 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico plots greater spending, from tuition to Medicaid

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An expansion of nonmerit scholarships to college and greater spending to safeguard abandoned oil wells in New Mexico are among the governor's new spending priorities, amid a windfall in state income linked to federal pandemic relief and petroleum production.

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Las Cruces couple reflect on 75 years together

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A chance meeting on July 18, 1946, and three weeks together – that was the beginning of Thomas and Dee House’s 75-year marriage. “This is supposed to be the marriage ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Santa Fe video rental store survives era of streaming movies

SANTA FE – The chatter from the checkout counter is muffled by a recently installed Plexiglas barrier, now standard in many retails stores. It’s hard to tell what Lisa Harris and her custome...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Albuquerque jail offers treatment for opioid addiction

ALBUQUERQUE – The Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque has begun a program to give buprenorphine to people in jail who are already using it to treat their opioid addictions. The Albu...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

State Police chief ‘beyond disgusted’ by recent violence

LOS LUNAS, N.M. – A pair of shootouts between a suspect and law enforcement officers left the suspect dead and two sheriff’s deputies injured, prompting the head of the New Mexico State Poli...

DATE: Sep 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Health official: New Mexico children need more virus testing

ALBUQUERQUE – More children in New Mexico are contracting COVID-19, and low testing rates in schools mean fewer cases are counted. This week, health and education officials called for more ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico