New Mexico

U.S. 04/27/20, 03:42

A town in Cibola County New Mexico with a population of just over 9,000 in the 2010 Census, is defying the governor’s order of a lockdown, and will reopen for business, with the mayor throwing out a challenge, "Let the state police come down here." Democratic Mayor Martin Hicks of Grants, ...

U.S. 12/26/19, 12:30

Four people found dead on Christmas Day in a home in an Albuquerque suburb were members of the same family and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday. The victims were identified as Carlos Velasquez, 50; Marilyn Velasquez, 45; Roberto Velasquez, 22; and Adrian Velasquez, 14, police ...

U.S. 11/06/19, 19:42

The call for help came at 8:30 a.m. from an especially secluded pocket of the Navajo Nation: A man and woman were unresponsive inside a traditional structure and 14 others were suffering from smoke inhalation after a nighttime ceremony. Navajo Nation police said Wednesday they are still investigating what happened at ...

Politics 09/17/19, 13:54

The Santa Ana Star Center where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally on Sept. 16 was packed, so thousands of people had to watch his speech on a large screen outside the venue in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. President Trump shared pictures shot at the event showing the center, a ...

Politics 09/17/19, 05:37

President Trump held a rally just 17 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday, Sept. 16, where thousands of people were gathered at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho to hear the president speak. The president lost New Mexico by 8 percentage points in 2016, but the crowd showed ...

2020 Campaign 09/16/19, 16:38

Hundreds of people showed up early Monday to ensure their place in line ahead of the evening event in Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque. A Trump supporter shared the photo on Twitter, saying "Don’t let the media fool you!! Waiting in line for the Trump rally! A whole lot of ...

U.S. 06/24/19, 17:54

Colorado authorities on Monday were investigating what caused a bus carrying a New Mexico high school church group home from a weekend retreat to veer off a highway and crash, killing the driver and a man training to become a Catholic priest. Investigators were looking into the possibility the driver had ...

U.S. 06/23/19, 20:32

A charter bus carrying 15 members of a church group ran off a highway after striking a bridge support Sunday in southern Colorado, killing two people and injuring several others, a state patrol official said. The bus was carrying a charter group from a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was ...

U.S. 06/18/19, 17:47

It's a carefully planned mission that involves coordination across state lines — from Mexican gray wolf dens hidden deep in the woods of New Mexico and Arizona to breeding facilities at zoos and special conservation centers around the U.S.It's also about timing as wolves in the wild and those in ...

U.S. 06/16/19, 19:37

A new mural in southern New Mexico seeks to honor missing and slain Native Americans amid a nationwide push to bring more attention to the issue.The Las Cruces Sun-News reports artist Sebastian "Vela" Velazquez recently erected the mural in Las Cruces in conjunction with the city's eighth annual "Illegal" graffiti ...

U.S. 06/07/19, 17:03

New Mexico's governor said Friday she's opposed to plans by a New Jersey-based company to build a multibillion-dollar facility in her state to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors around the U.S.In a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the interim storage ...

U.S. 05/30/19, 15:13

The latest on the crowd-funded barrier built on the U.S.-Mexico Border (all times local):2:15 p.m.The man behind an online fundraising campaign to build a privately funded barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border says his group has 10 more projects in the pipeline but he declined to provide details about where the ...

U.S. 05/29/19, 15:43

U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.The decision comes after Bernhardt visited the site Tuesday and met with leaders of the Navajo Nation ...

U.S. 05/28/19, 20:08

A border suburb of El Paso, Texas, has issued a cease-and-desist order against construction of a privately funded border barrier.A spokesman for Sunland Park, New Mexico, said Tuesday that the barrier being erected by We Build The Wall Inc. on private property doesn't comply with city ordinances. City spokesman Peter ...

U.S. 05/27/19, 17:11

A leader with the group that's been raising funds to build a southern border wall on its own says they erected less than a mile of wall on private land in New Mexico over Memorial Day weekend.Dustin Stockton, co-founder of the nonprofit WeBuildtheWall Inc., told The Associated Press Monday that ...

U.S. 05/27/19, 15:47

It's shaping up to be a deadly year for livestock in the American Southwest as the number of cows and calves killed by Mexican gray wolves has skyrocketed, aggravating an already tenuous relationship between U.S. wildlife managers, environmentalists and rural residents.Federal reports show the endangered wolves have been blamed for ...

Science 05/26/19, 16:10

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died at the age of 89.Gell-Mann died Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His death was confirmed by the Santa Fe Institute, where he held the title ...

U.S. 05/24/19, 14:55

John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation's longest serving Native American elected officials as a New Mexico state senator, has died. He was 94.Senate colleague Michael Padilla confirmed Pinto's death in Gallup on Friday after years of suffering from various illnesses ...

U.S. 05/20/19, 09:42

Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods is debuting its second product — meatless sausage crumbles — on Little Caesars pizza.Little Caesars will start testing the Impossible Supreme Pizza on Monday at 58 restaurants in Fort Myers, Florida; Yakima, Washington; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The $12 pizza also comes with mushrooms, caramelized ...

Baseball 05/19/19, 10:49

A New Mexico little league park is fighting a battle against discarded syringes with attached hypodermic needles amid the region's outgoing opioid epidemic.Atrisco Park, home of the Atrisco Valley Little League, in Albuquerque is racing to clean up syringes littering fields and the grounds to protect the children who play ...