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Trapping ban to take effect on public lands in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – It will be illegal to use wildlife traps, snares and poison on public lands across New Mexico under a ban that takes effect Friday. New Mexico is joining a handful of Western ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Group rebuffs U.S. House inquiry into New Mexico election audit

SANTA FE – A congressional oversight committee indicated Wednesday that the lead contractor in a partisan audit of 2020 election results in New Mexico has rebuffed requests for documents and...

DATE: Mar 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico regulators to review coal plant financing dispute

ALBUQUERQUE – It will be up to New Mexico regulators to settle a feud over financing and customer electricity rates stemming from the upcoming closure of one of the last remaining coal-fired...

DATE: Mar 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Recreational marijuana sales to begin Friday in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Marijuana aficionados and entrepreneurs across New Mexico are bracing for the April 1 start of state-regulated retail marijuana. New Mexico joins 17 other states that have legali...

DATE: Mar 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Bureau of Land Management extends comment period on Chaco proposal

ALBUQUERQUE – Land managers have scheduled two more public meetings and extended the comment period for a proposal that would prohibit oil and gas development on federal land surrounding a n...

DATE: Mar 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Warily, tribes prepare for cannabis ventures in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Two tribal communities have been reassured they’ll be able to take part in New Mexico’s marijuana market opening in April without the threat of federal law enforcement interferenc...

DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

White House releases report on Native American voting rights

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans facing persistent, long-standing and deep-rooted barriers to voting have equal access to ballots...

DATE: Mar 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Methane survey from small plane finds more pollution, waste

SANTA FE – A pollution survey using sensors on small airplanes to detect methane emissions across a major U.S. oil and natural gas production zone points to greater releases of the potent cl...

DATE: Mar 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Political lobbyists denounce harassment by state senator

SANTA FE – A Democratic state senator is coming under new pressure to resign or be removed based on new allegations of groping, sexist comments, and yelling and cursing at women, in an open ...

DATE: Mar 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Official guilty of illegally entering Capitol grounds Jan. 6

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Tuesday convicted an elected official from New Mexico of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduc...

DATE: Mar 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico approves free college tuition for all residents; Utes included

Bill includes eligibility for Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute and Navajo tribes; 29 colleges participate

DATE: Mar 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Energy grants for U.S. tribes aimed at aiding vast power needs

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – More than a dozen tribal communities around the U.S. will share $9 million in federal grant funding for renewable energy projects, the U.S. Department of Energy announced ...

DATE: Mar 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico