New Mexico State Fair Announces Competitors For Green Chile Cheeseburger, Unique Foods Contests

NMSF News: The New Mexico State Fair announced the competitors for two of its most highly anticipated contests, the Green Chile Cheeseburger Challenge and the Unique Foods Contest. The Unique Foods Contest is the ultimate celebration of Fair...

New Mexico And Texas Reach Settlement Agreements In Decade-Long Rio Grande Water Dispute

U.S. SUPREME COURT News: SANTA FE — New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and the United States today filed a package of settlement agreements with the Special Master in the U.S. Supreme Court case Texas v New Mexico and Colorado and requested dismissal of...

New Mexico State Land Office Proposes New Rule To Harness Geothermal Potential

NMSLO News: SANTA FE — The New Mexico State Land Office will hold a public rulemaking hearing on a new, proposed geothermal rule to align with recent legislative changes and modernize and improve the agency’s process for issuing geothermal leases....

New Helicopter Enhances Emergency Air Medical Services In Northern New Mexico

Crew with new H125 B3E (AS350 B3E) helicopter. Courtesy photo HEALTHCARE News: TAOS — Patients needing emergency air medical transport throughout northern New Mexico now have greater access to critical care with the arrival of a new helicopter in...

New Mexico Economic Development Department invests $25 million in new venture studio

The New Mexico Economic Development Department has announced a significant $25 million investment to establish a cutting-edge quantum venture studio in partnership with Roadrunner Venture Studios. The initiative will accelerate innovation and...

New Mexico Supreme Court brings case to San Juan College in Rule of Law Program

Case brings matter of alienation of affection in marriage Charles Gerstein, counsel for the Intervenor-Appellant, stands in front of the New Mexico Supreme Court Justices on Thursday at the Rule of Law Program. (Courtesy Supreme Court of New...

New Mexico and Texas seek to end long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande

A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and the federal government back to the negotiating table last year.Now the battle over waters of the...

New Mexico Community College Celebrates Opening of State-of-the-Art Skilled Trades Center

The opening of the Ted Chavez Trades & Technologies Center was the centerpiece of Central New Mexico Community College's 60th Anniversary Celebration ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 29, 2025 -- Central New Mexico Community College celebrated its 60th...

New Mexico State Fair tickets go on sale for Labor Day

The New Mexico State Fair is allowing New Mexicans to attend the fair this year at a discounted price.The fair, which is held annually in Albuquerque, creates an entertaining, inspiring, and educational intergenerational experience to highlight...

New Mexico Nurse Assistant Charged with Hospice Fraud, Misconduct

A federal grand jury in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has indicted a certified nurse assistant for their alleged involvement in a hospice fraud scheme. Potential sentencing includes more than two decades of imprisonment. April Guadalupe...

Settlement Signed in Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande Case

EL PASO—The Rio Grande flows over 1,800 miles from the mountains of southwestern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. A lawsuit filed in 2013 between Texas and New Mexico over Rio Grande water has taken as many twists and turns as the river itself. A...

Colorado, New Mexico, Texas offer fresh settlement proposals in fight over Rio Grande water

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Morgan Lee, The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE — A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent Western states and the federal government...

New Mexico Ranch Reveals Effective Pasture, Range Management Techniques

During drought conditions, broom snakeweed can be a nuisance, but they have learned to manage around this weed. Cholla cacti also must be controlled, as they can become very invasive on rangeland and spread easily if they are not managed. GOOD...

New Mexico AG to take over rape, murder case in Gallup alleging DA failed to prosecute

New Mexico’s Attorney General directed special prosecutors at the state to take over two cases from the embattled McKinley County DA Bernadine Martin. Courtesy photo × Motion follows request to N.M. Supreme Court to remove DA Martin from office...

Settlement released in Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande lawsuit

The Rio Grande in Sunland Park at the state line between Texas and New Mexico in June 2022. Parties released the set of agreements Friday which they say will hopefully dismiss the case mired in the U.S. Supreme Court for more than a decade. Diana...

The recovery of endangered Mexican gray wolves hangs in the balance, largely due to a lack of genetic diversity. Yet on behalf of the livestock industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.…

New Mexico cattle growers lose challenge of protections for “flycatcher”

A court challenge of the federal government’s protections of the southwestern willow flycatcher, a bird on the endangered subspecies list, was lost by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. The challenge had been filed against the U.S. Fish...

U.S. Government Seizes Online Marketplaces Used to Sell Fraudulent Identity Documents to Cybercriminals

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico announced Thursday that federal authorities have executed a court-authorized seizure of two domain names and one affiliated blog associated with VerifTools, an online marketplace peddling...

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules

State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard at the groundbreaking of a community solar project in Valencia County. Hannah Grover/NM Political Report × The New Mexico State Land Office will hold a public hearing Sept. 30 to gather feedback on...

Federal government resumes funding for AmeriCorps after legal challenge led by NY attorney general

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that federal funding for AmeriCorps programs has resumed following a lawsuit filed by her office and a coalition of 24 states. The legal action came after the Trump administration canceled about 80...