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New Mexico sues tobacco companies over settlement payments

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is suing more than a dozen tobacco companies, accusing them of conspiracy and breach of contract. Attorney General Hector Balderas announced the legal challenge Tues...

DATE: Nov 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

U.S. sued over lack of protection plan for rare grouse

ALBUQUERQUE – An environmental group is suing U.S. wildlife managers, saying they have failed to protect a rare grouse found in parts of the Midwest that include one of the country’s most pr...

DATE: Oct 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribal leaders pepper New Mexico candidates with questions

Voting access, sovereignty and water rights are concerns

DATE: Oct 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Annual hot air balloon festival draws global audience to US

ALBUQUERQUE – Hundreds of hot air balloons were scheduled to lift off Saturday morning, marking the start of an annual fiesta that has drawn pilots and spectators from across the globe to Ne...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Inspections of chile imports heat up at New Mexico border

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s green chile season is in full swing as the aroma of fresh roasted peppers permeates the air, but growers and exporters in Mexico are just as busy and that’s causin...

DATE: Sep 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New assessments show New Mexico students still struggling

Education officials tout ‘strategies’ to get back on track

DATE: Sep 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico Supreme Court details ruling on stream access

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday detailed its legal reasoning for a decision earlier this year that answered a long simmering question over whether the public had a rig...

DATE: Sep 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Medical investigator rules Baldwin set shooting an accident

ALBUQUERQUE – The fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin last year was an accident, according to a determination made by New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Invest...

DATE: Aug 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Son of suspect in Muslim slayings to remain in custody

ALBUQUERQUE – The son of an Afghan refugee suspected in the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in New Mexico will remain in custody pending trial on a charge that he allegedly provided a fal...

DATE: Aug 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. doles out relief dollars to build N.M. employment pipelines

State has highest unemployment rate in the nation

DATE: Aug 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

With Rio Grande reduced to a trickle, river managers brace for more drying

BERNALILLO, N.M. – Triple digit temperatures and a fickle monsoon season have combined with decades of persistent drought to put one of North America’s longest rivers in its most precarious ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Regulators recommend license for spent nuclear fuel storage in southern New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – There are no environmental reasons that would prevent a New Jersey-based company from building a multibillion-dollar facility in southern New Mexico to temporarily store tons o...

DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico