The Latest Breaking News from New Mexico

Ball Corp (NYSE:BALL) is partnering with private investment firm Manna Capital Partners in which the latter will construct and operate an aluminum can sheet rolling mill and recycling center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. Ball will enter into a long-term supply agreement and intends to take a minority equity position in the mill.…

DENVER — The federal suspension of prescribed burns pending a review of how recent fires lit during extreme drought escaped boundaries is reverberating in the West — and complicating Colorado efforts to revive ailing forests and reduce the severity of wildfires.

A firefighter happened upon the motionless animal on the ground of a fire-blackened forest as he patrolled and extinguished hot spots. The calf, dubbed Cinder, is recovering at a wildlife center.

Firefighters say they have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf from the ashes of the nation’s largest wildfire, as calving season approaches its peak in early June and fires rage across the American Southwest

The footprints, believed to date back thousands of years, were found in White Sands National Park

Light rain and a bit of snow in the mountains of northern New Mexico helped slow the largest wildfire in North America

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in New Mexico this year was March 24, 2022. Eight candidates are running for New Mexico’s three U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and four Republicans. That’s 2.67 candidates per district, less than the 6.3 candidates per district in 2020 and the…

Twelve of the 57 New Mexico state legislators running for re-election—eight Democrats and four Republicans—face contested primaries. That equals 21% of incumbents seeking re-election, the highest rate since 2014. The remaining 45% of incumbents are not facing primary challengers.

Firefighters in New Mexico battling the nation’s largest active wildfire say favorable weather helped them prevent the blaze from growing over the last 24 hours

The mission was to rescue tens of thousands of invaluable tree sprouts from a research center in New Mexico and to keep safe a vital bank of millions of pine, spruce and other conifer seeds that will be used to restore fire-ravaged landscapes across the West

Miriam de Fronzo spent nearly four years of her life searching for £2m buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, only to discover that she was days late in finding it