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California felon charged in shooting of New Mexico officers

ALBUQUERQUE – A felon from California has been charged with opening fire on Albuquerque police officers, severely wounding one officer and injuring three others after they responded to a r...

DATE: Aug 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico school shooting suspect to remain in custody

ALBUQUERQUE – A 13-year-old New Mexico boy accused of shooting and killing a classmate will remain in custody pending trial. A Children’s Court judge agreed with prosecutors during a virtu...

DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico State Fair vaccine mandate spurs concern

ALBUQUERQUE – Some are calling a requirement for everyone attending the upcoming New Mexico State Fair to show proof of vaccination anything but fair. The mandate was announced Tuesday by Go...

DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico braces for end of federal unemployment bonuses

SANTA FE – State labor and workforce training officials are bracing for the end of a $300 weekly federal bonus in unemployment benefits that also bolstered income for the self-employed and ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor sets mask mandate, requires vaccination

ALBUQUERQUE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Tuesday she will be reinstating a mask mandate for all public indoor spaces in New Mexico as vaccination rates remain stagnant and infections ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

State health officials make urgent call for volunteer nurses

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico health officials say an increase in hospitalizations across the state has prompted them to put out an urgent call for volunteer nurses to help boost the state’s medi...

DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Operations conducted to crack down on Gallup street racing

GALLUP, N.M. – Operations aimed at cracking down on street racing within Gallup and the surrounding area of northwestern New Mexico’s McKinley County have netted a dozen arrests and produced...

DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

School starts in New Mexico with many masked, few vaccinated

ALBUQUERQUE – The incoming and outgoing New Mexico education secretaries on Wednesday launched the fall semester with appearances at a high school pep rally packed with about 1,000 mask-wea...

DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Retired court justice to take reins of child welfare agency

SANTA FE – The head of the state’s foster care and child welfare system was replaced Tuesday as New Mexico grapples with the effects student isolation during the pandemic and wages a longst...

DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Hospital physicians seek to unionize amid pandemic turmoil

SANTA FE – Physicians at Rehoboth McKinley Christian hospital in Gallup have taken the first major step toward unionizing to pursue collective bargaining on employment provisions, hospital s...

DATE: Aug 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Las Cruces friends say new tequila honors Mexican culture

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Don Carlos Padilla is an agave farmer in San Julian, in the Los Altos region of Jalisco, Mexico. He has been producing artisan tequila for a local market for more tha...

DATE: Aug 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Teacher union president: Goal is to get kids back to school

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – The head of a national teachers union is visiting New Mexico on Thursday as part of a nationwide campaign to convince parents that it’s safe to send their kids back to pub...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico