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A landmark lawsuit accusing the state of New Mexico of failing to prevent oil and gas pollution will now go to trial. A New Mexico judge Monday denied requests by various state agencies, the Legislature, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce to dismiss the case.

The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are at the center of a lawsuit put forward by several conservation groups accusing the federal government of failing to protect endangered species on the Valles Caldera Preserve.

Several environmental and farmer advocacy groups are asking a federal court to strike down the use of a controversial crop-damaging pesticide known as dicamba. Conservationists claim the herbicide is especially harmful to New Mexico’s trees, endangered wildlife, and land.

Election Day has come and gone for New Mexico and one race in particular is too close to call––the heavily contested Congressional District 2. Alex Curtas, spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office, joined KUNM Wednesday morning to chat about when we might see those results, what voter turnout looked like, and how election night went in general.

Thousands of uranium mines lie abandoned across New Mexico and the Southwest. Now, lawsuit settlement money from large corporations and the U.S. Government is being pumped in to cleaning them up. Could that mean jobs as well as a healthier environment for New Mexicans?

District Attorney Raul Torrez has sued the 2nd Judicial Court in Albuquerque alleging officials violated the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act by refusing to turn over GPS data for two people on pretrial release. Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur says public access to this data leaves people over-exposed and over-surveilled.

An Albuquerque church with thousands of members, Legacy Church, is suing the state of New Mexico over a public health order church leaders say violates…

A judge has ruled that federal agencies have failed to monitor the threatened Mexican Spotted Owl population. The ruling stops prescribed burns and forest…

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed a second lawsuit Monday, July 29, on behalf of a woman who says she was subject to repeated sexual…

The state supreme court will hear a lawsuit next week challenging the New Mexico Secretary of State’s decision to reinstate straight party voting on…