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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham this week signed a flurry of bills that lawmakers sent to her desk during the recent legislative session, including measures related to health care, law enforcement’s use of automatic license plate reader data, water and more.
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham also left the door open to "a little more work" on interstate compacts before leaving office at the end of the year.
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Thursday announced her gubernatorial campaign’s plan for public safety issues, which includes overhauling the troubled CYFD and creating a statewide behavioral health response department.
Interstate 27 will extend from Amarillo to Raton, thanks to a congressional appropriation a few years back. Northern New Mexico cities received funding last month to study what that could mean.
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New Mexico is part of a coalition that filed suit today over President Trump's tariffs.
The findings come amid revelation that a Texas company seeks to build a gas pipeline for New Mexico’s Project Jupiter.
Luján introduced three bills that seek to rein in ICE, which announced a 120% increase in officers earlier this year.
A Texas energy company has applied to build a 17-mile pipeline in Doña Ana County in order to help power a controversial data center in Southern New Mexico.
The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission is calling on Gallup-McKinley County Schools to develop an alternative, culturally appropriate disciplinary system following findings that the district imposes disproportionately harsh punishments, including expulsion, on Native students.
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NEW: Physical mailers and digital ads have urged New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center. The company behind the effort is registered in Virginia, and seemingly no one wants to claim credit for it.
New Mexico environment officials and national advocates say congressional Republican proposals to overhaul federal regulation of toxic chemicals would undercut state laws, including those currently under review by New Mexico.
“We’re kind of dependent on hope this fire season, like last year,” a UNM fire ecologist said.
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New Mexico’s recently departed Department of Transportation secretary has stepped into a new role as deputy state treasurer, the State Treasurer’s Office announced Monday.
Company officials said they would expand the footprint of their Albuquerque hub near Kirtland Air Force Base with a $30 million investment. They said they expect to generate about 450 jobs and $670 million in economic impact in the next 10 years.
Lincoln County and federal officials are finalizing a program that will enable the county to buy hundreds of Ruidoso-area homes at acute risk of floods stemming from 2024 wildfires
The state budget the Legislature approved last month includes $21 million for the effort.
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Attorneys for the New Mexico state auditor and current and former lawmakers on Monday asked a judge to dismiss them from former Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard’s lawsuit that alleges powerful state leaders subjected him to a “smear campaign.”
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) on Monday announced he would vote against former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce to run the federal Bureau of Land Management.
Duke Rodriguez earned another victory in court Friday morning when a Santa Fe judge dismissed a lawsuit aimed at the legitimacy of his campaign for governor.
State regulatory staffers in a filing said PNM's parent company and private equity firm Blackstone have yet to provide any strong evidence that the stock sale was not related to the proposed $11.5 billion acquisition. However, both sides have denied any wrongdoing.
As wildfire season ramps up in New Mexico, the state’s biggest electrical utility has rolled out a new system to alert residents before the utility shuts off power during periods of dangerous fire weather.
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Bernadine Martin, the embattled district attorney for McKinley County, announced her resignation Thursday, just days before the state Supreme Court was slated to consider a petition by Attorney General Raúl Torrez to remove her from office.
The New Mexico office charged with permitting what would be the state’s first new uranium mine in decades has agreed to hold a public hearing after receiving more than 200 letters in opposition.
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A small crowd attended Thursday morning’s New Mexico Public Regulation Commission meeting to oppose a proposed private equity takeover of the state’s largest electric provider — a topic that wasn’t on the agenda.
Haaland’s affordability agenda is part of a multi-faceted plan, which her campaign has dubbed “Deb’s Plan,” which so far includes four tenets: education, affordability, health care and public safety.
New Mexico announced Wednesday it joined 14 other states in seeking a federal district court to overturn the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stripping of universal recommendations for childhood vaccines.
United States senators, including U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), questioned Steve Pearce about his previous statements about public lands and record as congressman for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District during the committee hearing Wednesday.
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An Aztec judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the legitimacy of Duke Rodriguez's Republican bid for governor. Rodriguez still faces a similar challenge from an opponent.
FEMA quietly appointed a new interim director for the multi-billion-dollar wildfire compensation fund while the previous director is on leave.
A partial government shutdown has disrupted her first days on the job, including halting payments to fire victims.
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