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Albuquerque residents can expect 175 new affordable apartment units in Downtown and Barelas in the coming years, thanks in part to funds appropriated by the City Council on Monday.

A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement.

The mother of the 18-year-old man accused of killing a 14-year-old on the campus of the University of New Mexico during the early hours of July 25th called Valencia County emergency dispatchers in an effort to locate her son.

A wildfire burning east of Navajo Lake in the Jicarilla Ranger District of Carson National Forest grew to 1,100 acres on Sunday night as fire crews added air support to fight the blaze.

New Mexico climate groups struck a defiant tone in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to dismantle federal authority to reduce one of the drivers of climate change: greenhouse gases.

The Trump administration has released nearly $7 billion in federal funding that was withheld from K-12 public schools. But the state’s Public Education Department, which is tasked with distributing the money to schools and programs, has not seen those funds restored yet, according to its Chief Financial Officer, Marian Rael.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hosted seven Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives in the state capitol on Tuesday to discuss their Republican counterparts’ plans to redraw Texas’ congressional map during an overtime special legislative session.

Sandia Pueblo has endorsed prosecutor Sam Bregman in the Democratic primary for governor, rather than Deb Haaland from Laguna Pueblo, who has served in Congress and was the U.S. Interior Secretary.

The University of New Mexico plans to significantly grow its medical school in the next 10 years, a move aimed at alleviating the state’s physician shortage.

University of New Mexico police are warning residents living near and around central campus in Albuquerque to shelter in place following an early morning shooting of two people at the Casas Del Rio student dormitories.