The Latest Breaking News from New Mexico

For all the punishment COVID-19 has inflicted in New Mexico, the virus also is responsible for the state enacting one of the broadest paid sick leave laws in the country.

After a wildfire roared through northern New Mexico this summer, state and federal biologists rescued scores of Rio Grande cutthroat trout from a small stream

The Libertarian Party's state affiliates in New Mexico and Virginia have broken away amid ideological and procedural turmoil—and the Virginia branch may have dissolved entirely.

The Colorado River Compact was signed in 1922, just 10 years after New Mexico became a state

A county court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sept. 6, 2022, became the first in more than 150 years to disqualify a person from public office because they participated in an insurrection.

Welcome to the Wednesday, September 14, Brew. 

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service is resuming its prescribed burning program with new rules that it says will minimize the risk of fires escaping control and damaging communities. The announcement comes after a 90-day pause prompted by a pair of escaped burns that merged into the largest wildfire…

A New Mexico judge ruled that a county commissioner who participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol can no longer hold public office.

Brodie Young's coach James McMenemy has spoken highly of the 19-year-old