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Lawsuit seeks access to withdrawal medication for prisoners

SANTA FE – Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department seeking to ensure access for prison inmates to medication that reduces opioid withdrawal ...

DATE: Dec 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

NM relaxes testing for students on track to graduate in 2024

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is relaxing requirements for some high school students by eliminating the need to pass standardized tests as a way to demonstrate they're ready to graduate, the stat...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico lawmaker avoids ethics hearing over committee job

SANTA FE – Outgoing New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf, who appointed himself to the Public Regulation Commission nominating committee, has avoided an ethics hearing by resigning. The Stat...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico visits new political landscape in four-day trip

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is traveling to a convention of Democratic governors in New Orleans on the heels of her reelection victory, with additional engagements in P...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Ex-deputy who used stun gun on Espanola teen gets plea deal

SANTA FE – A former New Mexico sheriff's deputy who faced charges for using a stun gun on a teen with special needs has agreed to never work in law enforcement again. The Santa Fe New Mexica...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Former Congressman Pearce reelected as NM GOP chairman

ALBUQUERQUE – Former U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce was elected Saturday to a third consecutive term as chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico after the GOP failed to make significant...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Albuquerque has record 115 homicides and counting this year

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque has set a record for the most homicides in one year at 115 and counting, according to authorities. The Albuquerque Journal reported the record was previously set i...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. targets Russian mercenary group over religious freedom

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Friday placed a well-known Russian paramilitary organization on a list of religious freedom violators alongside a number of notorious terrorist organ...

DATE: Dec 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Faith

A rail strike looms, and impact on U.S. economy could be broad

The stakes are so high that Congress is expected to intervene

DATE: Nov 22, 2022 | CATEGORY:

New Mexico urges flu, COVID immunization for children

SANTA FE – State health officials are encouraging the immunization of children against flu and COVID-19 without making changes to its list of other vaccines required for school entry in the ...

DATE: Nov 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

U.S. gives protections to rare Midwest bird as prairie suffers

Prairie chicken’s range includes oil-rich Permian Basin

DATE: Nov 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico police: Planned attack led to university shooting

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico investigators say a University of New Mexico student conspired with two other students and a teenage girl to lure a visiting New Mexico State University basketball p...

DATE: Nov 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico