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Rio Rancho Bonds Approved    RIO RANCHO - Rio Rancho voters have said yes to a ...
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Woman Accused Of Embezzlement    Norma Mermejo, 53, a member and resident of Picuris ...
Group files lawsuit over trapping in New Mexico
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Tuesday against wildlife managers over their decision last summer to lift a trapping ban in southwestern New Mexico where the federal government is reintroducing Mexican gray wolves.
NM regulators repeal carbon cap and trade rules
New Mexico's participation in a regional cap and trade program aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions became more unlikely Monday with a unanimous vote by state regulators.
New Mexico's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in...
Jerry Hou, 17, of Albuquerque and Priscilla Duenas, 12, of Rio Rancho today were named New Mexico's top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
New Mexico Space Grant: Operating at the margins...
What do Pros Ranch market and going back to the moon have in common? Hint #1: It's about looking around to see what isn't happening.
New Mexico Airlines pulls out of Lea County
By Stella Davis Current-Argus Staff Writer CARLSBAD - New Mexico Airlines, an Essential Air Service carrier, says Hobbs residents needing to fly to Albuquerque will have to drive to Carlsbad to catch a flight to the northern city.
New Mexico House panel OKs budget
A more than $5 billion New Mexico budget proposal is back on track in the House and the spending blueprint leaves nearly $42 million available for possible tax cuts advocated by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and legislators.
Editorial: Put Legislature on Tape
New Mexico's legislators do the work of the people, sacrificing their time and often their inc ...
Tax bills proliferate, but to what end?
The New Mexico Tax Research Institute reported that as of last week it was tracking 75 tax-related b ...
New Mexico cruises 65-49
Kendall Williams scored 18 points and Tony Snell added 13 to lead New Mexico to a 65-49 victory over Boise State...
After Deep Cuts, New Mexico Now Has Budget Surplus
In New Mexico, state lawmakers are figuring out what to do with a budget surplus. Republicans want to give some of the money to businesses, in the form of tax breaks. Democrats want to restore some of the cuts to services made over the last three years.
After Cuts, New Mexico Now Has Budget Surplus
In New Mexico, state lawmakers are figuring out what to do with a budget surplus. As NPR's Ted Robbins reports, Republicans want to give some of the money to businesses, in the form of tax breaks. Democrats want to restore some of the cuts to services made over the last three years.
TRAC technology donated to New Mexico school
A New Mexico school will be putting more technology into the hands of its students thanks to a donation by a White Sands Missile Range tenant.
New Mexico Celebrates Pueblo Centennial
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is celebrating the centennial of New Mexico's statehood with an exhibit.

NMSU's Creative Media Institute part of New Mexico film industry documentary
LAS CRUCES - "MADE IN NEW MEXICO," an hour-long documentary that takes an inside-look at the state's film and media industry, premiered this week in Santa Fe.
New Mexico to hold tours of 1980 prison riot site
The Associated Press The Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. The site of a violent 1980 riot at the state's maximum-security penitentiary near Santa Fe will be opened to the public by the New Mexico Corrections Department. The state will begin offering public tours Thursday of the infamous "Old Main" prison building, the Albuquerque Journal reported (http://bit.ly/wlb60s ). Thursday is the ...
New Mexico: Corrections nominee opposed
SANTA FE -- State Sen. Linda Lopez is challenging the fitness of Gov. Susana Martinez's nominee to run New Mexico's prison system.
New Mexico legislative panel votes to continue...
SANTA FE, N.M. - Republican Gov. Susana Martinez has suffered a temporary political setback in a bid to stop New Mexico from granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
New Mexico license data points to fraud
SANTA FE, N.M.-Dozens of the same business and residential addresses were used repeatedly by people to obtain driver's licenses in New Mexico in a pattern that suggests fraud by immigrants trying to game the system, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Fraud seen in New Mexico driver's license data
SANTA FE, N.M. - Dozens of the same business and residential addresses were used repeatedly by people to obtain driver's licenses in New Mexico in a pattern that suggests fraud by immigrants trying to game the system, an Associated Press investigation has found.
New Mexico land grant expands Air Force training
WASHINGTON | The U.S. Air Force accepted a land gift offer from the State of New Mexico during a ceremony in Santa Fe Jan. 18, hosted by the New Mexico State Land Office. The 11,000-acre land gift,...
New Mexico is Taking a Stretch
The commute between Albuquerque and Santa Fe is getting longer and it's not the traffic.
Updated: Gov. Martinez Starts NM Legislature With...
SANTA FE - New Mexico lawmakers met in Santa Fe Tuesday for the beginning of the 2012 New Mexico Legislative Session. Governor Susana Martinez began the legislative session by delivering the State of the State Address. read more
New Mexico governor tries to end licenses for...
SANTA FE, New Mexico - New Mexico's Republican governor Susana Martinez, the nation's first female Hispanic governor, promised once again on Tuesday to try to repeal a law that allows undocumented immigrants to receive driver's licenses in the state. Martinez has pushed repeal of the driver's license law since she took office last January, saying it is a public safety issue that ...
New Mexico House Speaker Lujan has lung cancer
SANTA FE, N.M.-House Speaker Ben Lujan has lung cancer and will not seek re-election this year, the 76-year-old announced Tuesday in a dramatic opening of a 30-day legislative session.
New Mexico Legislature begins session today
SANTA FE - The New Mexico Legislature goes back to work today. It begins a 30-day session that will focus on taxes, education and a controversial law on driver's licenses.
Legislators propose to appoint PRC Commissioners
SANTA FE - Have New Mexico voters done such a rotten job of choosing regulatory commissioners that they should fire themselves as electors?
New Mexico Gov. fights license law again
SANTA FE -- Gov. Susana Martinez sees one clear path to victory in her relentless campaign to stop undocumented immigrants from obtaining New Mexico driver's licenses.
New Mexico increases number of bighorn hunting...
SANTA FE -- Desert bighorn sheep, removed in November from New Mexico's list of threatened and endangered species, will be hunted in greater numbers this year.
New Mexico centennial stamp goes on sale
Postage stamps honoring New Mexico's 100th anniversary as a state went on sale nationwide Friday after a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the New Mexico History Museum in downtown Santa Fe.
'Unpaid' New Mexico legislators still receive...
SANTA FE - Unpaid legislator is a term closer to fiction than fact. New Mexico's lawmakers, called citizen legislators because they work for no salary, still qualify for state pensions after five years in office.
Stamp honoring NM Centennial is revealed
SANTA FE - New Mexico marked its 100th year of statehood Friday afternoon with a dash of artistry.
New Mexico marks 100 years with new commemorative...
SANTA FE - New Mexico marked its 100th year of statehood this afternoon with a dash of artistry. The U.
Proposed New Mexico budget aids schools,...
SANTA FE -- Up to 40,000 of New Mexico's small businesses would receive a tax break under the budget that Gov. Susana Martinez proposed Thursday.
My turn: Happy birthday, New Mexico
The state of New Mexico turns 100 on Friday. Here's some trivia: • President William Howard Taft signed the declaration of statehood at 1:35 p.m. on Jan. 6, 1912, in his private office at the White House. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported about...
Triumphs and tragedies of New Mexico's first 100...
SANTA FE - Turning 100 years old guarantees that one has endured bumps, bruises, bad times. In New Mexico's case, reaching its first century also meant it had a vital part in America's triumphs and advances.
Gary Johnson's Libertarian Leap Could Complicate...
SANTA FE, N.M.--Declaring himself "liberated" from the Republican race for the party's presidential nomination, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is abandoning the elephant herd and will run as a Libertarian candidate for president.
New Mexico Card Company Announces Plan to Expand
SANTA FE, N.M. -- Lori Faye Bock has announced plans to expand the distribution of it's art note card line starting in the first quarter of 2012 through animal protection groups, veterinarians and independently ...
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson 'fed up' with...
SANTA FE -- Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican all his life, quit the party Wednesday to become a Libertarian candidate for president.

  New Mexico's Gary Johnson ditches the GOP to run...
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