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‘His heart was in it.’ Reporter covered Navajo for 5 decades

Covered efforts to reform tribal government and a deadly riot at the tribal capital

DATE: Aug 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

‘Breaking Bad’ statues shine light on actors, Albuquerque

Show and its prequel ‘Better Call Saul’ helped fuel filmmaking across New Mexico

DATE: Aug 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Man convicted in death and dismemberment of New Mexico girl

10-yer-old’s mother pleaded guilty in 2018

DATE: Aug 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New mail policy for New Mexico prison inmates in question

ALBUQUERQUE – Humanitarian concerns are being raised about a new prison policy in New Mexico that provides inmates with photocopies of their personal mail – never the actual mail itself – as...

DATE: Jul 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Navajos to narrow field of 15 presidential hopefuls in primary

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Natalia Sells has a list of qualities she wants to see in the next Navajo Nation president: Approachable. Adaptable. Inspiring. Someone who upholds traditional values but ...

DATE: Jul 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Highway double take: Albuquerque sign spelled without ‘r’

ALBUQUERQUE – It made drivers on Route 66 and Interstate 40 in New Mexico do double takes. A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers tow...

DATE: Jul 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

FBI assembles 177 active cases of Indigenous people missing from N.M. and Navajo Nation

Scan of databases is the first attempt by law enforcement to quantify the crisis after pressure mounts for years

DATE: Jul 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico foundation to return Indigenous items to Mexico

Small, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico, where they are intertwined with the identity of Indigenous communities. Th...

DATE: Jul 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico expands gun safety efforts

Mine petitions filed to have guns removed since red-flag law went into effect

DATE: Jul 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. judge OKs online publication of New Mexico voter records

SANTA FE – A conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records from across the country online for public consumption can move forward over the objections of New Mexico ele...

DATE: Jul 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Southern New Mexico city to install safe haven ‘baby box’

HOBBS, N.M. – Hobbs city commissioners took a step toward saving the lives of unwanted newborns at a recent meeting by voting to install a baby box in the southeastern New Mexico community. ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

2 dead, 1 missing in flooding in northern New Mexico

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Two people died and another person was reported missing from flash flooding in a stretch of northern New Mexico that had been ravaged this past spring by wildfire. Tim Nix,...

DATE: Jul 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico