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Susan Montoya Bryan
Position: The Associated Press

A year after girl killed, Navajo Nation will get alert system

ALBUQUERQUE — More than a year after a Native American girl was killed and her tribe was criticized for not having an alert system in place when children go missing, the Navajo Nation has si...

2018 plan for Mexican wolves calls for fostering of pups

ALBUQUERQUE – Federal wildlife officials have a plan for fostering as many as a dozen captive Mexican gray wolf pups with packs in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico in 2018. Th...

N.M. regulators report drop in methane emissions

ALBUQUERQUE – Methane emissions from oil and natural gas production in New Mexico have dropped by more than 50 percent over the past year thanks to advances in technology and changes in the ...

Endangered wolf killed after livestock attacks

ALBUQUERQUE – An endangered Mexican gray wolf has been killed by federal employees after a Native American tribe requested the animal be removed from the wild in the wake of a string of catt...

New Mexico Democrats push feds to limit drilling near Chaco

Delegation wants 10-mile buffer zone preserved

Multibillion-dollar contract for Los Alamos lab up for bid

Criticism of safety record intensifies as plutonium pit production resumes

Guidelines developed for drilling near Chaco Canyon

Planning area encompasses 6,500 square miles in northwest New Mexico

New Mexico hit by ‘flash drought’ weather phenomenon

ALBUQUERQUE – Across New Mexico, unusually warm March weather and virtually no rain for a month prompted dust storms that closed highways, warnings for some to stay inside and rapid mountain...

New Mexico attorney general dissatisfied with mine spill response

Attorney general says state’s requests disregarded

Feds propose wolf releases in southwestern New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE — Federal wildlife managers want to release two packs of Mexican gray wolves in wilderness areas near the Arizona-New Mexico border this year in an effort to bolster a struggling...

Feds seek to dismiss New Mexico’s claims over Gold King Mine spill

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Attorneys with the U.S. Justice Department are asking a federal judge to dismiss claims by New Mexico and the Navajo Nation that stem from the 2015 Gold King Mine waste ...

Ancient Chaco Canyon inhabitants relied on imported food

Dry, salty conditions prevented agriculture