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Interior boss Zinke halts oil and gas lease sale near Chaco

Interior secretary cites impact on cultural sites

DATE: Mar 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Santa Fe mayor denies sex assault alleged by a relative

SANTA FE – Outgoing Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales is denying allegations of decades-old sexual assault that have been reported to authorities by a female relative. Gonzales in a ...

DATE: Feb 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor won’t discuss preference on successor

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has declined to say whether she will vote for the sole Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2018 elections. Martinez was asked Thursday...

DATE: Feb 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cities seem inevitable; why save the small town?

Cities seem inevitable, but rural towns are finding ways to hang on

DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hundreds of New Mexico inmates held past parole date

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Joleen Valencia had resisted the temptation to count her days to freedom. She had learned inside a New Mexico prison that tracking time only added to the anxie...

DATE: Jan 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Deadly New Mexico shootings, politics make headlines in 2017

ALBUQUERQUE – Two deadly shootings in opposite corners of the state and a crime rampage that left five people dead across northern New Mexico are among the stories that made headlines in 201...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Dry winter could stress Arizona’s ponderosa pines

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Northern Arizona has missed out on a white Christmas, and if the lack of snowfall continues, scientists say there will likely be more far-reaching effects on the region’s ...

DATE: Dec 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo-Gallup water project gains pipeline contract

Some areas slated to get water soon

DATE: Dec 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico county weighs rules for oil and gas drilling

BERNALILLO, N.M. – Elected leaders in one New Mexico county are considering an ordinance that would guide energy development across a large swath of land that borders the state’s largest met...

DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Environmentalists target methane emissions in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Methane emissions from oil and natural gas production in New Mexico are higher than what state and federal regulators have measured and the failure to capture the pollution is ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Route 66 brewery in New Mexico sued by Europeans over name

ALBUQUERQUE – A New Mexico brewery that uses the Route 66 in its name faces a lawsuit from a European company that says it owns the beer sales and marketing trademark for the famed American ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Defense: Former N.M. state senator’s $50,000 commission was legitimate

SANTA FE – A former New Mexico state senator went on trial Tuesday on accusations he used his elected office to profit from the sale of a state-owned building, in a high-stakes corruption tr...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News