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When human waste flooded part of a U.S. immigration prison in central New Mexico last month, guards ordered incarcerated people to clean it up with their bare hands and put them in solitary confinement when they protested, according to a letter from Sen. Martin Heinrich to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Las Cruces police officer Brad Lunsford has been indicted on a charge of voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man during a confrontation last year, according to authorities.

Facebook and Instagram fail to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them, New Mexico's attorney general alleges in a lawsuit that follows an undercover online investigation.

New Mexico would underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated water that originates from the used, salty byproducts of oil and natural gas drilling, and help preserve its freshwater aquifers in the process, under a proposal from the state's Democratic governor.

New Mexico officials are setting up "justice stations" in the northwestern part of the state including on the Navajo Nation, in order to help people access state courts without traveling as far.

Lawmakers and advocates this week said an advisory council on missing and murdered Indigenous people Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration announced Tuesday isn’t a good replacement for a task force disbanded earlier this year, and questioned why state officials aren’t asking for more money to confront the crisis.

Santa Fe’s City Council and mayor have voted down a resolution to suspend the city manager for alleged ethics violations.

New Mexico is creating a new advisory council that will be charged with implementing a state plan for responding to cases of missing or slain Native Americans, with top state officials vowing Tuesday that the work will lead to more people being found and families gaining closure. And, The results of this month’s local elections are official. New Mexico’s State Canvass Board unanimously certified them Tuesday.

The results of this month’s local elections are official. New Mexico’s State Canvass Board unanimously certified them Tuesday.

Bernalillo County’s Tiny Home Village in Albuquerque’s International District is accepting applications this week. The transitional housing program is open to people 18 years and up who are unhoused or “precariously housed” and able to live on their own.