After a sometimes heated six-hour debate and a few failed amendments, the New Mexico Senate passed a gun bill that aims to stop firearms from getting into the wrong hands and ban the sale of certain types of weapons. Plus, nine children died while in New Mexico foster care in 2025, according to a new report, with another 10 identified as "near fatalities."

The New Mexico Senate Education Committee on Friday advanced a universal child care bill that would only require co-pays from high-earning families under specific economic circumstances. plus, A deal to sell PNM's parent company to Blackstone Infrastructure got the OK on Friday from the Public Utility Commission of Texas following a regulatory settlement reached with intervenors in December, and it has already been approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed four bills relating to interstate licensed professional compacts, ICE detention and road construction projects into law Thursday morning while surrounded by lawmakers from both political parties.

The Torrance County Commission met for about two minutes Wednesday morning to extend an agreement allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to continue housing detainees at its local jail, a little more than 12 hours after the New Mexico Senate voted to ban such agreements.

The free, state-administered reading program will be offered at sites around New Mexico this summer.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham plans to sign it into law.

House Bill 181, which eked through the committee on a 5-4 vote, would require CYFD to report to lawmakers and the newly created Office of the Child Advocate about the number and status of such children, and allots $100,000 in one-time funds to facilitate the reports.

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

House Bill 99 would also increase standard of proof needed for punitive damages.

Sen. George Muñoz (D-Gallup) on Wednesday said that Senate Bill 19, which he co-sponsored, would give state education officials the time they need to figure out how much money was overpaid to Gallup-McKinley and how they can get it back.