In Santa Fe, a proposal to build a micro-shelter village on Richards Avenue is proceeding slowly through the city’s permitting process.

The New Mexico State Auditor’s Office has referred a forensic audit report revealing alleged financial wrongdoing in Taos Municipal Schools to three oversight agencies: the New Mexico State Ethics Commission, New Mexico State Police and the New Mexico Department of Justice.

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver recently signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressing concern about the federal government’s request for states’ voter rolls.

Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, is making just three stops in the United States. The exhibition comes to New Mexico after appearing at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and is scheduled to travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Art after its run in Albuquerque concludes in January.

The three bills seek to limit the number of out-of-state companies that receive fire-related contracts; expand the use of technology to monitor nascent blazes; and require the federal government to pay 100% of costs in rare circumstances when a federally managed prescribed burn escapes into a wildfire.

Councilors Genevieve Oswald, Darien Fernandez and Corilia Ortega voted to approve the resolution during a special meeting, while Councilor Marietta Fambro voted no. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Fambro asked for more financial and logistical details about how the measure would be implemented. Mayor Pascual Maestas was absent from the meeting.

The company, founded by former SpaceX executives Kreitz, Sean Pitt and Bryon Hargis, would manufacture and test tip-to-tail hypersonic missiles at the Sandoval County site. The company said Monday that it expects to break ground early next year, though construction could begin even sooner.

In a tunnel between two parks in Albuquerque’s Uptown area, there are speakers blaring Chinese opera music. This is not an isolated incident. Earlier this week KUNM reported on a Beijing opera playing on loop at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. streetscape in Downtown Albuquerque.

Source New Mexico’s Patrick Lohman reports the discovery marks the first time the plume has been detected within the pueblo boundaries. State officials say the plume’s spread does not pose imminent threats to drinking water in the pueblo or in Los Alamos County because the plume is not near any known private or public wells.

The seven Colorado River states, including New Mexico, failed to reach a broad agreement Tuesday on how to share the river’s dwindling water supply.