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Uranium mine waste rock that has been sitting for decades near the Navajo Nation community of Churchrock will be moved to a landfill six miles east of the Village of Thoreau.

More members of the embattled board of regents at Western New Mexico University have resigned.

The National Weather Service and state Department of Health are warning that much of New Mexico will be getting very cold late Tuesday into Wednesday.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has asked for the immediate resignation of regents at Western New Mexico State University after revelations of wasteful spending and failures in financial oversight, according to documents released Thursday.

A New Mexico consumer and environmental advocacy group is requesting that state regulators order a management audit of the parent company of the firm trying to acquire a gas utility.

The new year will see the start of state laws in New Mexico that will lower personal income taxes and make it easier to get certain medications. One new law will make it harder for some people to get food benefits.

The faculty senate at Western New Mexico University (WNMU) has scheduled a meeting for Jan. 2 that has a single item on the agenda: considering a vote of no confidence in the school’s Board of Regents. The meeting was set up in direct response to the board’s recent severance agreement with former WNMU president Joseph Shepard.

Education saw significant seismic activity on both the state and local levels in 2024.

The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday.

Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew on Monday the appeal of a July decision at trial to dismiss the charge. The decision to drop the appeal solidifies the decision by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer halfway through trial to dismiss the case on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense.