Black girls wrongly held at gunpoint in Colorado file suit

DENVER – The families of four Black girls mistakenly detained by suburban Denver police at gunpoint last year after they were suspected of being in a stolen car sued police and the city of A...

Snow buries northern Arizona; flurries delight in desert

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A major winter storm buried northern Arizona in snow on Monday while sending flurries to the outskirts of Las Vegas and Phoenix, delighting desert dwellers. A s...

School bill challenges New Mexico virus restrictions

SANTA FE – A bipartisan group of New Mexico lawmakers is pushing legislation that would allow more students to attend class in person by shifting authority over decisions to reopen from stat...

Navajo Nation reports 89 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation health officials on Monday reported 89 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths as a revised public health order is set to take effect. The lat...

New Mexico reports nearly 860 new virus cases, 38 deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 859 additional COVID-19 cases and 38 more deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 168,579 cases and 3,115 deaths. Bernalillo C...

Bus heading to Grand Canyon rolls over; 1 dead, 2 critical

PHOENIX – A Las Vegas-based tour bus heading to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others, authorities said. ...

Colorado agency gets virus relief aid, reverses furloughs

DENVER – The Regional Transportation District in Colorado has halted layoffs for about 250 employees after it received more than $200 million from a $900 billion federal coronavirus relief a...

Carlsbad eyes converting university branch into college

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Carlsbad’s school board is voicing support for a proposal to convert the New Mexico State University branch campus in the southeastern New Mexico city into an independent co...

Small liquor stores brace for more changes in alcohol laws

Impacts from liberalizing laws five years ago still being felt

Colorado dodges post-holiday wave of COVID-19

Public health restrictions, decline in mobility, mask use seen as helpful factors

Colorado man charged in Capitol riot to be kept in custody

DENVER – A magistrate judge on Friday ordered a Colorado man suspected of being affiliated with a militia and accused of assaulting officers in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot be held in federa...

Navajo Nation keeps stay-home order, lifts weekend lockdowns

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation has announced it is extending its stay-at-home order with a revised nightly curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19 while lifting weekend lockdowns to a...