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New Mexico leads US Southwest in broadband needs

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico has the highest percentage of residents in the U.S. Southwest without adequate broadband internet service, a problem highlighted Monday by the Biden administration a...

DATE: Apr 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico issues 10-year plan for boosting forest health

ALBUQUERQUE – Restoring forests, using fire as a management tool and getting more buy-in from private landowners are among the strategies outlined in New Mexico’s latest forest action plan. ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor gets request to send troops to U.S. border

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell on Friday asked Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to deploy New Mexico National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as more migrant families and unaccompa...

DATE: Apr 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribes talk priorities with ‘formidable guardian’ Haaland

ALBUQUERQUE – Native American leaders told U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland they see her as a “formidable guardian” and steward of their interests Tuesday during her first official trip t...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man held in New Jersey killing charged in New Mexico deaths

ALBUQUERQUE – Authorities on Friday charged a man already accused of a beating death in New Jersey with murder and other counts in New Mexico in the slaying of his ex-wife and two of her fri...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: New Mexico charges coming after killings in 2 states

ALBUQUERQUE – Charges were imminent against a man suspected of killing his ex-wife and three others in New Mexico in a series of slayings that include the beating death of a New Jersey resid...

DATE: Mar 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. seeks more time to rewrite Mexican gray wolf management rules

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. wildlife officials are asking a federal judge for more time to rewrite rules that guide management of North America’s rarest subspecies of gray wolf, saying they will miss...

DATE: Mar 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Endangered wolf population keeps growing

Nearly 200 Mexican gray wolves roam New Mexico, Arizona

DATE: Mar 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Grocery store workers, others now on New Mexico vaccine list

ALBUQUERQUE – Grocery store employees, home caregivers, farm workers, other essential workers and people older than 60 are now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine in New Mexico. ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor signs prescribed fire measure

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday signed legislation that will clear the way for more prescribed fires as New Mexico deals with worsening drought and climate change. ...

DATE: Mar 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. says ranger tried to diffuse run-in before using Taser

ALBUQUERQUE – A National Park Service ranger used a stun gun on a man who identifies as Native American after trying repeatedly to diffuse a confrontation on federal land in New Mexico, acco...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. nuclear lab to relocate hundreds of workers in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – One of the nation’s premier nuclear laboratories announced Monday that it will be moving hundreds of employees from its sprawling campus in the mountains of northern New Mexico...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News