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New Mexico AG to take over rape, murder case in Gallup alleging DA failed to prosecute

New Mexico AG to take over rape, murder case in Gallup alleging DA failed to prosecute

New Mexico’s Attorney General directed special prosecutors at the state to take over two cases from the embattled McKinley County DA Bernadine Martin. Courtesy photo × Motion follows request to N.M. Supreme Court to remove DA Martin from office...

New Mexico cattle growers lose challenge of protections for “flycatcher”

A court challenge of the federal government’s protections of the southwestern willow flycatcher, a bird on the endangered subspecies list, was lost by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. The challenge had been filed against the U.S. Fish...

USIBWC Announces 2025-2026 Bird Hunting Areas Along The Rio Grande In West Texas & Southern New Mexico

USIBWC Announces 2025-2026 Bird Hunting Areas Along The Rio Grande In West Texas & Southern New Mexico

The U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) has released information regarding migratory and game bird hunting areas on USIBWC lands along the Rio Grande in El Paso and Hudspeth counties, Texas, and in Doña Ana and...

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules

State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard at the groundbreaking of a community solar project in Valencia County. Hannah Grover/NM Political Report × The New Mexico State Land Office will hold a public hearing Sept. 30 to gather feedback on...

Max Gomez Drops Introspective Album Featuring Single 'New Mexico'

Max Gomez Drops Introspective Album Featuring Single 'New Mexico'

In Taos singer-songwriter Max Gomez’s formative preteen years, he endured the icy grip of isolation as his social structure suddenly crumbled. His four older brothers had all moved out of his household, and then his parents split, with his mother...

Businesses Unite Under Cannabis Association Of New Mexico

Businesses Unite Under Cannabis Association Of New Mexico

Plants grow inside a greenhouse at a farm in Socorro, New Mexico. High Maintenance owner Matt Kennicott is co-founder of the newly-formed Cannabis Association of New Mexico (CANM). Photo courtesy High Maintenance. With New Mexico’s cannabis market...

Albuquerque, N.M., Hosts City’s First Quantum Week

Albuquerque, N.M., Hosts City’s First Quantum Week

(TNS) — Albuquerque will host this year's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Quantum Week conference — a first for the city as New Mexico makes a name for itself in the quickly evolving industry. With established national...

Still Selective, Still Political – What They’re Not Telling You About ELP Crackdowns

Still Selective, Still Political – What They’re Not Telling You About ELP Crackdowns

A fatal crash in Florida involving a non–English-speaking CDL holder set off a political firestorm—and it didn’t take long for Washington to respond. With headlines stacking up and safety advocates calling for accountability, newly appointed...

US Government Takes 10 Percent Stake In Intel With $8.9 Billion Investment

US Government Takes 10 Percent Stake In Intel With $8.9 Billion Investment

(MENAFN- Robotics & Automation News) US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel for $9 billion August 29, 2025 by Mai Tao The United States government has agreed to take a 9.9 percent stake in Intel through an $8.9 billion investment, marking...

Dept. of Justice: AG Kaul sues to stop federal government from sharing Wisconsin Medicaid data

Dept. of Justice: AG Kaul sues to stop federal government from sharing Wisconsin Medicaid data

MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that Wisconsin has joined a multistate lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using or sharing personally...

GAMEDAY CENTRAL: Time, channel, things to know for New Mexico State's opener vs Bryant

GAMEDAY CENTRAL: Time, channel, things to know for New Mexico State's opener vs Bryant

It's time for the Aggies to take the field. New Mexico State begins its 2025 football season at home against Bryant at 7 p.m. Aug. 30. The game kicks off Aggies coach Tony Sanchez's second season leading his alma mater after a 3-9 campaign during...

New Mexico woman charged with identity theft and nursing fraud

New Mexico woman charged with identity theft and nursing fraud

WEEKEND FORECAST. BUT FIRST, BACK TO DOUG AND DARLENE. NEW MEXICO’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS CHARGING A WOMAN FOR FALSIFYING HER CREDENTIALS AS A NURSE, PROVIDING CARE TO PATIENTS, AND STEALING THE IDENTITIES OF NURSES. ALIYAH CHAVEZ HEARD FROM THE...

Blog operators selling fake New Mexico driver’s licenses

Blog operators selling fake New Mexico driver’s licenses

FBI, Dutch police shut down company offering fraudulent documents for as little as $9 EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The federal government has seized two internet domains and a blog being used to sell fraudulent identity documents including...

New Mexico AG announces indictment of ‘imposter nurse’ for abuse and misconduct

New Mexico AG announces indictment of ‘imposter nurse’ for abuse and misconduct

New Mexico prosecutors allege that an “imposter nurse” nearly caused the death of a hospice patient earlier this summer after working for three health care providers in Albuquerque for a year-and-a-half using a stolen identity. A Bernalillo County...

State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols In Counties Across New Mexico In September 2025

NMSP News: Statewide – New Mexico State Police (NMSP) will be conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols; and registration, insurance, and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during September 2025. NMSP is bringing...

Why Dallas Love Field doesn’t have international flights

Why Dallas Love Field doesn’t have international flights

North Texas passengers may have noticed for many years that international flights aren’t available from Dallas Love Field Airport. That’s because it’s illegal to do so. In 2006, federal legislation, known as the Wright Amendment Reform Act, was...

New Mexico State University poet Connie Voisine recognized

New Mexico State University poet Connie Voisine recognized

Susan Morée Las Cruces Bulletin New Mexico State University poet Connie Voisine is one of seven to receive the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office announced the award on Monday, August 25....

Elections preview: ENMU-R, school boards

Elections preview: ENMU-R, school boards

Ryan French, board member and secretary of the Roswell Independent School District (RISD), didn’t file for a second term on the board representing District 1, the Bureau of Elections, Chaves County Clerk’s office. This has been French’s first term...

State mulls how to better track federal funding impacts to New Mexico Pueblos, Tribes

State mulls how to better track federal funding impacts to New Mexico Pueblos, Tribes

Federal cuts to services are already impacting health care, education and infrastructure for Pueblo and Tribal communities in New Mexico, leadership for the state’s Indian Affairs agency told lawmakers Thursday, and with deeper cuts expected...

New Mexico opens applications for $40 million to treat brackish water

New Mexico opens applications for $40 million to treat brackish water

Reverse osmosis membranes at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant as seen Sept. 26, 2022 in El Paso. New Mexico officials just announced the application is available for plans to treat saltier, less usable groundwater for other uses....

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