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In an abrupt announcement Friday, New Mexico governor’s office announced the same-day retirement of Teresa Casados, the latest secretary of the state’s beleaguered Children Youth and Families Department.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will call lawmakers back to the Roundhouse starting Oct. 1 for a special session focused on a state-level response to federal spending reductions to Medicaid and food assistance programs.

Two candidates for Albuquerque City Council are facing lawsuits contending they do not have enough signatures to be on their ballots.

New Mexico leaders said a federal partnership announced Tuesday will help launch the state as the “next Silicon Valley” in the frontier of quantum computing, a nascent technology that boosters say will revolutionize problem solving from cancer research to code-breaking.

On Monday morning, thousands marched through Downtown Albuquerque, voicing their opposition to President Donald Trump at the “Workers over Billionaires” protest.

Parties in a legal dispute over Rio Grande water filed settlement documents Friday that could end a lawsuit that has been mired before the U.S. Supreme Court for the last 12 years and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will open up public comments on Friday on its plan to repeal a 24-year-old rule that prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 91,000 square miles of federal Forest Service land.

California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump took aim at pretrial detention programs that don’t utilize cash bail with executive orders he signed Monday morning, including those in New Mexico.

On Saturday, during his annual state of the city address, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller touted the city’s milestones under his administration and charted a path forward — should he be elected to a third term in November.