KUNM News

New Mexico Democrats are pushing to place two new candidates for the state House of Representatives on the Nov. 3 ballot after the nominees dropped out of the race.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington over laws that allow immigrants in the country without legal status to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they live.

A simmering military conflict more than 7,000 miles away is driving New Mexico revenue collections to unprecedented levels.

A teenager charged in the shooting death last year of 14-year-old Michael LaMotte during a drug-fueled night at the University of New Mexico has taken a plea deal and faces a 12-year prison sentence, court records show.

The hearing officer presiding over the New Mexico Environment Department’s air quality permit hearing for the Project Jupiter data center has recused himself from the case, according to newly filed documents.

Record-breaking July temperatures have left nearly 95% of New Mexico in some degree of drought, and “isolated” monsoon rains failed to provide meaningful relief to water supply challenges across the West.

The state health and environment departments on Wednesday issued a smoke advisory, and announced two additional air monitors at the Nambe Community Center and the Harold L. Runnels Building, along with a third planned for Mora to measure the fine particulate matter associated with wildfire smoke.

The Gallup High School alumna was tapped in 2007 for the University of New Mexico B.A. to M.D. program.

Small quakes measuring magnitude 3.1 and 2.5 have struck near the Socorro magma body, a pattern seismologists say is cyclical and not unprecedented.

Westerly winds drive the blaze higher into Pecos Wilderness, expanding wildfire by 2,000 acres by Monday.