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Under scrutiny, New Mexico opioid prescriptions taper off

New law requires doctors to check database of prescriptions

DATE: Jun 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP New Mexico lawmaker wants to shrink national monument

SANTA FE, N.M. — Members of New Mexico’s delegation to Capitol Hill are at odds over whether to reduce the size of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument under a review by the a...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pileup during blinding dust on New Mexico highway kills 6

LORDSBURG, N.M. – Six people died in a 25-vehicle pileup caused by a sudden dust storm along an interstate highway in New Mexico where such conditions have caused deadly collisions in the pa...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fire crews in New Mexico brace for hot, dry weather

Smoke blanketed much of the Jemez Mountains on Friday as firefighters battled a blaze that forced evacuations and the closure of a highway through one of northern New Mexico’s popular mounta...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico fire prompts evacuation of as many as 200

Firefighters faced hot, dry conditions as they tried to get a handle on a blaze that grew out of control Thursday, prompting evacuations in one of New Mexico’s popular mountain getaways and ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. 550 continues to be deadly major highway in New Mexico

Patrolman says highway north of San Ysidro ‘is a killing zone’

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Former Cortez priest, Rev. Larry Gallegos, dies at 78

Priest had served in Durango for nearly 30 years

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Faith

New Mexico marks 50th anniversary of Chicano courthouse raid

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – It was a local dispute over land in rural, northern New Mexico that turned violent, forced the governor to call the National Guard and catapulted a former Pentecostal pre...

DATE: Jun 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

New Mexico school buses drive over potential sinkhole

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — A potential massive sinkhole worries some New Mexico parents whose kids ride the school bus. About half of Carlsbad school buses drive over the former I&W Br...

DATE: May 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Case closed: Death of treasure hunter remains a mystery

ALBUQUERQUE – The case of a man who moved to the American West to search for $2 million in hidden treasure but turned up dead in New Mexico’s backcountry was officially closed after authorit...

DATE: Mar 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. Democrats unveil their budget-fix plan

GOP governor calls proposal ‘a political play’

DATE: Feb 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Feds seek to dismiss New Mexico’s claims over Gold King Mine spill

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Attorneys with the U.S. Justice Department are asking a federal judge to dismiss claims by New Mexico and the Navajo Nation that stem from the 2015 Gold King Mine waste ...

DATE: Feb 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News