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WED: No End In Sight For Emergency Restrictions As COVID-19 Cases Rise To 1,484, + More

No End In Sight For New Mexico Emergency Restrictions – Associated Press, KUNMThere is no end in sight for a public health emergency declared by Gov.…

WED: State To Test Sewage From Detention Facilities For COVID-19, + More

New Mexico Begins Sewage Testing For COVID At Prisons – Associated PressNew Mexico has begun monitoring sewage from prisons and youth rehabilitation…

FRI: Senate Passes Daylight Savings Bill, Lawmakers OK Liquor License Fee Waivers, + More

Bill Advances To Exempt New Mexico From Time Changes - By Morgan Lee, Associated PressNew Mexico would eliminate twice-annual seasonal time changes under…

In the 1970s, Vernice Davis Anthony was one of dozens of Detroit public health nurses who regularly fanned out throughout the city, building trust. They visited the home of every new mom and worked in schools, tracking cases of infectious diseases and making sure kids got immunized.

Detroit Once Tried To Privatize Public Health. Now It's Trying To Rebuild

With bankruptcy looming in 2012, Detroit largely dismantled its public health department. Years later, that decision offers a cautionary tale to other U.S. cities as the painful rebuilding continues.

A burned building is seen in the Pendaries Village following a wildfire near Las Vegas, New Mexico, on Monday, May 2, 2022. Wind-whipped flames are marching across more of New Mexico's tinder-dry mountainsides, forcing the evacuation of area residents and dozens of patients from the state's psychiatric hospital as firefighters scramble to keep new wildfires from growing. The big blaze burning near the community of Las Vegas has charred more than 217 square miles. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

THURS: Fire crews close in around massive New Mexico wildfire as Biden declares disaster, + more

Firefighters in New Mexico took advantage of diminished winds Thursday to build more fire lines and clear combustible brush near homes close to the fringes of the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. They did so ahead of what is expected to be several consecutive days of intense hot, dry and extremely windy weather that could fan the blaze.

Vlad begins his round of evacuations picking up civilians in Druzhkivka on Dec. 14, 2022, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

Meet the volunteers bringing relief to the residents of embattled Bakhmut, Ukraine

Photographer Natalie Keyssar recounts the work of The Angels of Salvation, a group of volunteers dedicated to bringing aid to and helping to evacuate civilians in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

THURS: Governor signs voting rights bill, Republicans want federal inquiry into Health Department, + More

Republican legislative leaders in New Mexico are asking the federal government to investigate two divisions in the state Health Department amid allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation of developmentally disabled people.Plus, New Mexico's governor Thursday signed a Democratic-sponsored voting rights bill aimed at expanding access to the ballot and two other related measures.

FILE - A hiker sits on a ledge above Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021. The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The action taken by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in the nation’s No. 2 oil-producing state was announced Friday June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

FRI: Biden orders 20-year drilling ban to protect sacred sites outside Chaco, + More

Hundreds of square miles in New Mexico will be withdrawn from further oil and gas production for the next 20 years on the outskirts of Chaco Culture National Historical Park that tribal communities consider sacred, the Biden administration ordered Friday.

Hydrogen storage tanks are visible at the Iberdrola green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, Spain, Tuesday, March 28, 2023.

FRI: Governor heads to Australia to talk with hydrogen businesses, + More

New Mexico's governor is traveling to Australia to attend a hydrogen summit in hopes of meeting with manufacturing companies that might have an interest in expanding to New Mexico.

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (left) and U.S. Rep. Gabe Vaquez, both of New Mexico, joined a growing number of congressional Democrats calling on President Biden to leave the presidential race on Friday, July 19, 2024.

FRI: NM's Heinrich and Vasquez call on Biden to leave the presidential race, + More

New Mexico’s U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez are both asking President Joe Biden to suspend his presidential campaign and allow another candidate to step in.

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