Raul Torrez

Attorney General Raúl Torrez called a meeting of law enforcement and prosecutors in Albuquerque to weigh in on gun violence. This comes after Torrez said he would not defend Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent executive order which included a ban on carrying a gun in public in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, and was partially blocked by a judge.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is opening an investigation into disproportionately harsh punishment of Native American children by Gallup McKinley County Schools.

New Mexicans who were eligible to file their taxes for free through the IRS but instead paid to file through a TurboTax product marketed as “free” are receiving payouts from a multistate settlement. Eligible consumers don’t need to do anything to receive a check in the mail this month.

Eunice, a small city in the east of the state, is suing to overturn the new law, in the latest in an escalating battle over local ordinances restricting access to abortion, which remains legal in New Mexico.

Edgewood is following the cities of Clovis, Hobbs and Eunice, as well as Roosevelt and Lea Counties, in passing ordinances that cite federal law to restrict access to abortion, although it is the first to do so since a new law prohibited the local actions.

It is the latest in a series of legal actions over access to abortion in New Mexico, although the procedure remains legal here and a new law prevents municipalities interfering in reproductive care.

The court has agreed to hear the argument made by the Attorney General that counties and cities acted unlawfully when they passed ordinances citing a 19th century federal law.

Democratic lawmakers and the Attorney General pushing back against local authorities find themselves at the center of a legal debate that some think could even rise to the US Supreme Court.

Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez will be headed to Santa Fe as New Mexico's next Attorney General.

The race for New Mexico’s top prosecutor is between the current Bernalillo County District Attorney and a newcomer with one legal win already during this campaign cycle.