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New Mexico hits stalemate on cannabis legalization

SANTA FE – State legislators are at a stalemate regarding popular efforts to legalize marijuana in New Mexico with less than a week remaining to send a bill the governor. A state ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Working women pay highest price in economy crushed by COVID

DENVER (AP) – Louise Carr, 50 and divorced, lost her job as a baker and waitress early on in the pandemic when the Castle Rock cafe where she worked closed its doors. Now she’s vying with 20...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that state Senate Democrats violated the Constitution in 2019 when they responded to Republicans’ request that bills be read at length by having computer...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico court upholds damages cap in medical malpractice

New Mexicoâ€™s highest court has ruled that monetary limits on some types of damages attributable to medical malpractice are not unconstitutional. The New Mexico Supreme Court on ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gregg Smith ends campaign to challenge U.S. Rep. Boebert

DENVER – Gregg Smith, a rancher, former U.S. Marine and former business executive, has announced he is abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Laur...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver’s airport reopens after powerful winter storm

DENVER – Denver’s airport reopened Monday after a powerful late winter snowstorm dumped over 3 feet of heavy, wet snow on parts of Colorado and Wyoming, shutting down roads, closing state le...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cost to fortify New Mexico Statehouse is $700K and growing

SANTA FE – Troops, extra police details and fences cordoning off the New Mexico state Capitol grounds and adjacent streets from public access have cost taxpayers at least $700,000 in police ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque schools to resume in-person learning on April 5

ALBUQUERQUE – With the slowing of the coronavirus outbreak, Albuquerque Public Schools will resume in-person learning for five days a week on April 5 though students can continue remote lear...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

In a pandemic, Navajo community steps up for its vulnerable

TEESTO, Ariz. – For as long as Raymond Clark has lived alone on this quiet stretch of the Navajo Nation under the watch of the “Praying Mountain,” he has depended on everyone yet no one. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Airline passenger accused of refusing mask, then urinating

DENVER – A Colorado man accused of disrupting an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver by refusing to wear a mask and then standing up and urinating in the cabin faces a federal char...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado reports most killings in 2020 in 25 years

DENVER – There were more people per capita in Colorado who were killed last year than there have been in 25 years, according to state data. The state Bureau of Investigation repor...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

FBI offers reward in probe of October death in Shiprock

FARMINGTON– The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward as it continues to investigate the suspicious death of a Navajo Nation man whose body was found in October along a highway in Shiprock. ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News