-
Last month the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld an injunction on stops based on race, language, job, or location. As of Monday, this no longer holds true. The U.S. Supreme Court lifted restrictions on Los Angeles immigration stops made by federal agents working for Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
-
The New Mexico Department of Health announced last week a public health order aimed at expanding access to the COVID vaccine. On Friday NMDOH and the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy released updated protocols and recommendations in order to ensure as many people as possible have easy access to the vaccines.
-
Many of the oldest cottonwoods are nearing the end of their life cycle, and while the drought might claim a few of those aging trees, the cottonwoods of the Rio Grande bosque will endure, even as time and a warming climate change the makeup of Albuquerque's urban forest.
-
September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and suicide remains a serious problem in New Mexico.
-
At the grand reopening for the University of New Mexico Duck Pond Wednesday a few dozen people gathered around a podium while several folks from the university spoke. Enthusiastic staff and faculty were on hand, but students were less excited.
-
State lawmakers recently made their disappointment clear with the Department of Health during a presentation of an evaluation of the state鈥檚 medication assisted treatment program for substance use disorder. It came just weeks after an announcement that DOH would be expanding the program.
-
New Mexico鈥檚 congressional delegation is calling for more oversight of funds meant to soften the impact of federal health care cuts in rural areas. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) sent a letter signed by 27 Democratic members of Congress, including New Mexico's other representatives, Democrats Gabe Vasquez and Melanie Stansbury, to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
-
The end of summer comes with a welcome drop in temperatures, leaves starting to change color, and the smell of roasting chile in the air. Farmers are busy and so are farmer鈥檚 markets. It鈥檚 harvest time.
-
New Mexico鈥檚 attorney general on Friday directed special prosecutors at the state to take over two cases from the embattled McKinley County District Attorney Bernadine Martin.
-
Richelle Montoya, vice president of the Navajo Nation, told state lawmakers on the Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee on Thursday her community is concerned about its schools in the face of federal funding cuts.
-
Federal cuts to food assistance through the budget reconciliation bill, better known as the 鈥淏ig Beautiful Bill,鈥 put more than 450,000 New Mexicans at risk seeing their benefits drop by more than 20%, or losing their assistance altogether. But, state officials say they鈥檒l do everything they can to fill gaps left by those federal cuts.
-
Last Thursday, five guns were found at three different high schools across Albuquerque, just two weeks into the new school year. So why are children feeling the need to bring firearms to school?