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New Mexico utilities look ahead to renewable energy mandates

ALBUQUERQUE – A solar project meant to provide 10% of Gallup’s electricity for the next two decades is falling short of expectations, highlighting just one of the challenges as investor-owne...

DATE: Jan 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico opens vaccine distribution to more people

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is moving ahead with COVID-19 vaccine distribution, expanding eligibility on Friday to people 75 and older as well as residents with underlying medical conditions th...

DATE: Jan 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

National Park Service releases video involving tasing of visitor

National Park Service releases video of incident, says man climbing on petroglyphs

DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico utility has plan for growing electric vehicle use

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s largest electric provider has a plan for incentivizing the buildout of infrastructure that would be needed to bolster the use of electric vehicles in the expansive...

DATE: Dec 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Vaccine arrives in New Mexico as deaths mark another high

ALBUQUERQUE – The first coronavirus vaccines arrived in New Mexico on Monday as hospitals prepared to distribute doses to frontline health care workers. Shipments arrived at the N...

DATE: Dec 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico agencies seek more funding amid virus pressures

ALBUQUERQUE – Two of the state agencies that have been key in New Mexico’s response to the coronavirus pandemic laid out their spending requests to a panel of state lawmakers Friday, citing ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Count of new virus cases falls in New Mexico, but danger persists

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s daily count of confirmed COVID-19 cases has been trending down over recent days from the record highs reported earlier this month, but nearly every county remained...

DATE: Nov 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Canvassing board certifies Joe Biden’s win in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – The state canvassing board on Tuesday certified Joe Biden’s win in New Mexico, delivering the state’s five electoral votes to the Democrat. The approval came as the ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Top Democrat says district will be redrawn after GOP win

ALBUQUERQUE — A day after Republicans won back New Mexico’s only conservative-leaning congressional district, a top state Democrat said its boundaries will be redrawn in redistricting that w...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Key GOP win wrinkles Democratic wave in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Democrats swelled with pride during their virtual Election Night celebration as Gov. Michelle Luján Grisham boasted that voters were turning out in droves and electing De...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico makes history with all-female U.S. House team

ALBUQUERQUE – Republican Yvette Herrell on Tuesday staged an upset to win a contested race for a U.S. House seat in New Mexico, beating incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small in...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico building infrastructure for vaccine distribution

ALBUQUERQUE – It could be well into next year before a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, but top health officials in New Mexico said Tuesday that they have submitted their plan to the fe...

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News