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New Mexico releases monitoring plan after Gold King Mine spill

State suggests testing residents’ urine for metals

DATE: Oct 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. ranch OK with filming despite ‘Maze Runner’ rumors

ALBUQUERQUE – The manager of a private New Mexico ranch says he will continue to let movie productions film at the site after a studio squelched rumors that actors stole American Indian arti...

DATE: Oct 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawsuit claiming DEA paid N.M. man in crack tossed

ALBUQUERQUE, – A lawsuit filed by a New Mexico man who says federal agents wrongfully supplied him with crack cocaine, reigniting his addiction to the drug, was dismissed Wednesday by a fede...

DATE: Sep 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Officer may lose job in homeless man’s death

Policeman charged in shooting faces departmental hearing

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. auditor questions former sheriff’s spending

ALBUQUERQUE – A lack of internal controls and oversight in the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office allowed several officers to alter their hours and claim more than $130,000 in overtime pay fro...

DATE: Aug 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawmakers to discuss impeaching N.M. official

Secretary of state accused of fraud, embezzlement

DATE: Aug 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

School dedicated for ‘forgotten’ Mexican-American scholar

ALBUQUERQUE – Decades after leaving New Mexico in disgrace, a noted Mexican-American scholar and key figure in school desegregation got a school dedicated in his honor in his hometown of Alb...

DATE: Aug 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Drought done, but N.M. utilities push for conservation

ALBUQUERQUE – Water managers across New Mexico aren’t giving up on their push for residents to conserve water even though severe drought has disappeared. For the first time in mor...

DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Prosecutors face challenge convicting N.M. police officers

Former Albuquerque detective, current officer will be tried for killing of homeless man

DATE: Aug 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge denies N.M. drilling injunction

ALBUQUERQUE – A federal judge has rejected an effort by environmental groups to stall oil-and-gas development in northwestern New Mexico while they fight the approval of dozens of drilling p...

DATE: Aug 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Methane hot spot begs for action

ALBUQUERQUE – Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Monday pointed to a hot spot of the potent global-warming gas methane over part of the American Southwest, saying federal of...

DATE: Jul 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News