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Latest New Mexico film lineup includes independent features

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Film Office says four independent feature films headline the state’s latest lineup of projects either recently in production or about to start up. The ot...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

FBI offers reward in probe of October death in Shiprock

FARMINGTON– The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward as it continues to investigate the suspicious death of a Navajo Nation man whose body was found in October along a highway in Shiprock. ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico state Senate passes hair discrimination bill

SANTA FE – The New Mexico state Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on traditional hairstyles and head coverings. If signed into law, hair-based disc...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico House endorses ban of demonstrations at homes

SANTA FE – A proposal to make it illegal to demonstrate at any specific private residence in New Mexico has been endorsed by the state House by a narrow margin. The House voted 33...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Clean fuel standard wins approval by New Mexico Senate

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s state Senate approved a bill Thursday to create a clean fuel standard that environmentalists and Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham say would move the state close...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Policing reforms gain momentum in New Mexico

SANTA FE – New Mexico lawmakers advanced a bill toward a final Senate vote to eliminate police immunity from prosecution in state courts on civil rights violations ranging from racial discri...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Legislature approves liquor license overhaul

SANTA FE â€“ The New Mexico Legislature sent a bill to the governor that would overhaul state liquor regulations in an effort to invigorate the hospitality industry. The Senate vo...

DATE: Mar 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico ban on traps and wildlife poisons clears Senate

SANTA FE – A New Mexico measure that would prohibit traps, snares and wildlife poisons from being used on public lands cleared the Democratic-led Senate late Tuesday. The legislat...

DATE: Mar 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Four found dead in car at Albuquerque airport garage

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque police have identified four people whose bodies were found last week inside a vehicle parked in the garage of the city’s airport. Police said three of th...

DATE: Mar 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque gets new police chief, reform superintendent

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller says he went both inside the outside the Albuquerque Police Department for leadership to fight crime and reform the organization. Keller...

DATE: Mar 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

From scrappy startup to success, Meow Wolf looks to future

SANTA FE (AP) – Meow Wolf has been percolating for 13 years, though the rest of the world has really only known about the immersive, experiential artist collective since the House of Eternal...

DATE: Mar 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico reports 288 additional COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 288 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 186,742 cases and 3,796 deaths. About a...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News