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Wet weather a boost for crews fighting New Mexico wildfire

THREE RIVERS, N.M. – Rain and snow helped crews working to keep a wildfire from spreading in forested mountains in south-central New Mexico, officials said Wednesday. The fire w...

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico settles child care lawsuit, promises subsidies

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s early childhood department has settled a lawsuit with anti-poverty groups, cementing access to child care subsidies for low-income residents. Under the agr...

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Advocates detail ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women

ALBUQUERQUE – Cases of domestic violence against Indigenous women and children and instances of sexual assault increased over the past year as nonprofit groups and social workers scrambled t...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque police union starts campaign focused on crime

ALBUQUERQUE – The union that represents police officers in New Mexico’s largest city has launched a $70,000 campaign aimed at highlighting Albuquerque’s persistent crime problems. ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Prison worker alleges retaliation for report of rodents

SANTA FE – A mental-health worker at a state prison in western New Mexico says she was harassed and threatened by superiors after reporting details of an apparent rodent infestation, under a...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexican residents 16 or older may now schedule vaccines

SANTA FE – Every New Mexico resident 16 or older who has signed up on the state’s online coronavirus vaccine registry can now schedule their own appointments. The announcement on ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man arrested after girlfriend’s kids give note to bus driver

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A Las Cruces man was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence-related charges after his girlfriend asked her children to give their school bus driver a note saying she w...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Top-tier management team assigned to New Mexico wildfire

OTERO, N.M. – A top-tier management team and additional air tankers and ground crews have been assigned to a wildfire burning in the Sacramento Mountains of south-central New Mexico. ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Students, faculty back at college after wildfire evacuation

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – About 300 students and faculty of a small private college in northern New Mexico returned to campus Saturday as firefighters worked to mop up and fully contain a wildfire t...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: Drought leaves New Mexico trees weak and dying

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s relentless drought is stressing forests, making them more vulnerable to a widespread pest infestation that could cause a mass tree die-off if wetter weather doesn’t c...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

One gorilla departs Albuquerque zoo, another arrives

ALBUQUERQUE – Officials at Albuquerque’s city zoo say they’ve said goodbye to one gorilla and welcomed another. A 35-year-old gorilla named Marcus left the Albuquerque BioPark in ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

State pays $200,000 to inmate injured in 2017 prison riot

SANTA FE – A prison inmate who survived having his throat slashed in a 2017 cell block riot has reached a financial settlement with the state of New Mexico to resolve accusations of neglig...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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