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New Mexico filed lawsuits against at least a dozen tobacco companies, claiming that the businesses are withholding annual payments due under previous lawsuit settlements.

Diane Albert, a New Mexico judge, and her pets were shot and killed by her husband on Friday before he turned the gun on himself, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said.

Authorities said a friend of the couple contacted the sheriff's office "after receiving a troubling message" from the husband.

A Village of Los Ranchos, New Mexico judge was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide last week, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office.

A 62-year-old man was arrested on Thanksgiving after relatives found him alongside the body of his wife, who he allegedly dismembered ahead of the family dinner.

Workers at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository have started using a newly mined disposal area at the underground facility in southern New Mexico.

Workers at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository have started using a newly mined disposal area at the underground facility in southern New Mexico. Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant made the announcement this week, saying the first containers of waste to be entombed in the new area came from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee — one of the many labs and government sites across the country that package up waste and ship it to WIPP. Known as Panel 8, the new area consists of seven separate rooms for placing special boxes and barrels packed with lab coats, rubber gloves, tools and debris contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive elements.

As accumulating snow fell in higher elevations across New Mexico and western Texas from Nov. 24-25, flooding rains hit the eastern part of the Lone Star State.

Three Albuquerque Police Department officers were placed on administrative leave following an officer-involved shooting at a home that left one person dead.

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Saturday's men's basketball game between New Mexico State and New Mexico has been postponed after an Aggie was reportedly involved in a homicide Saturday morning.

The U.S. Interior Department's plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

The U.S. Interior Department’s plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, according to an environmental assessment. The withdrawal plan was first outlined by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021 in response to the concerns of Native American tribes in New Mexico and Arizona that development was going unchecked across a wide swath of northwestern New Mexico and that tribal officials did not have a seat at the table. In addition to the proposed withdrawal, Haaland — who is from Laguna Pueblo and is the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency — also committed to taking a broader look at how federal land across the region can be better managed while taking into account environmental effects and cultural preservation.

Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham won re-election on Tuesday, defeating will defeat GOP candidate and local news weatherman Mark Ronchetti.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is emphatically denying allegations that her campaign was given a preview of debate questions during her 2018 run for office.

Democratic candidates in next week's midterms are being mocked for videos posted on TikTok and other social media, with one user asking, "Why do they keep doing this?"

President Biden's travel itinerary for his last big campaign swing reveals his party's defensive stance.

On a campaign stop in New Mexico, the president argued that voting for Democrats is in Americans' economic interest.

President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks on efforts to provide student debt relief during a visit to New Mexico.

President Joe Biden’s travel itinerary for his last big campaign swing before the midterm elections reveals his defensive stance in the campaign’s closing days.

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Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years

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A spokesperson for the district attorney said that prosecutors would make a timely decision about whether to bring charges.

A sheriff’s department has submitted its investigative findings to prosecutors in the death of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico in October 2021.

A sheriff’s department has submitted its investigative findings to prosecutors in the death of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico in October 2021.

With a week and a half to go until Election Day, the polls in a handful of key gubernatorial elections — New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan and Minnesota — have tightened up

Manuel and Marcy Silva combed through the charred rubble that used to be their home, searching for any salvageable bits in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico history.

A Boy Scout troop from Texas was rescued from New Mexico's Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument after heavy rains and swollen rivers stranded them at their campsite.

Oct. 21 marks one year since a gun Alec Baldwin was holding discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Fox News Digital recaps the investigation.

The film "Rust," which plans to continue the production halted after Halyna Hutchins' on-set death, won't return to New Mexico and may move to California.

Nordstrand comes from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas where she was that museum’s first curator of Native American Art. She also served as curator of Southwest art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Museum at Colorado College and associate curator of Native art at the Denver Art Museum. In New Mexico, Nordstrand will manage an anthropology library and archives as well as the Center for New Mexico Archaeology, which is the state’s archaeological repository. Nordstrand began working in the museum world around 1990 as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act came into effect. She co-founded the American Alliance of Museums’ Diversity Committee after leading the Native Americans and Museums Professional Interest Committee for years.

A Mexican Gray Wolf was found dead in New Mexico. Environmentalists are pushing for the Fish and Wildlife Service to do more when protecting the species.

"Anyone who kills a collared wolf is either an inept coyote hunter or a sick human being," said one wildlife advocate.

Environmentalists are pushing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do more to protect Mexican gray wolves after one of the endangered predators was found dead in southwestern New Mexico.

In New Mexico’s capital of Santa Fe, people walked with banners aimed at raising awareness about missing and slain Native Americans. Demonstrators left paint splattered on a monument of Kit Carson, who had a role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during the colonization of the West. It represented the most complete collection of New Mexico’s territorial proclamations. She’s among those pushing for this part of New Mexico’s history to be included in school curriculums. New Mexico is home to nearly two dozen tribal nations and pueblos, with Native Americans making up more than 12% of the population.

In New Mexico, one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. has filed its bankruptcy reorganization plan to compensate nearly 400 clergy abuse survivors with more than $121 million.

New Mexico's governor has voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier.

New Mexico’s governor on Monday voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier as federal soldiers tried to defeat Navajos, Apaches and others. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham described the 19th century proclamations by former territorial governors as offensive, saying rescinding the proclamations would help to heal old wounds and strengthen bonds with Native American communities. “The government of New Mexico has not always respected the importance and sovereignty of our Native American citizens, and our history is sadly stained with cruel mistreatment of Native Americans,” Lujan Grisham wrote in an executive order issued on Indigenous Peoples Day.

A new astronaut photo shows the Carrizozo Malpaís lava flow in New Mexico in stunning detail.

The lights are out at a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that has provided electricity to millions of people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century.

Hundreds of hot air balloons lifted off Saturday, marking the start of an annual fiesta that has drawn pilots and spectators from across the globe to New Mexico's high desert for 50 years now.

Migrants held by U.S. authorities at a detention center in rural New Mexico say they have endured retaliation rather than aid after reporting unsanitary conditions at the government-contracted jail.

Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors. "We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," says one legal scholar.

New Mexico granted prosecutors the funds to investigate the Alec Baldwin shooting incident on set of his film "Rust," which resulted in the death of Halyna Hutchins.

The Biden administration is expected to move forward with a proposal banning fossil fuel leasing near a New Mexico historical site, even as local Native Americans voice opposition.

A woman in New Mexico who was reported missing has been found dead. Her body was found near the Mountainair and Highway 60 area. Her husband was arrested in Kansas.

A GOP governor nominee is proposing a referendum on abortion in New Mexico. He is advocating for a limit on late-term abortions with exceptions for rape, incest and risk to mother.

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New Mexico's green chile season is in full swing as the aroma of fresh roasted peppers permeates the air.

In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico.

The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually flows through the banks of the Colorado. In fact, first sliced up 100 years ago in a document known as the Colorado River Compact, the calculation of who gets what amount of that water may never have been balanced.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An alligator, drugs, guns and money were seized during a raid at two homes in Albuquerque last month, but New Mexico wildlife officials said Saturday they are still searching for a young tiger they believe is being illegally kept as a pet. Wild tigers are listed globally as an endangered species. Alligators were listed as endangered in the U.S. from 1967 to 1987, but today thrive in the wild. The alligator seized by authorities is about 3 feet (almost 1 meter) long. It was taken to a wildlife facility after state conservation officers and federal, state and local police served search warrants Aug. 12.

The animal was believed to be less than 1 year old, but tigers can grow to 600 pounds, the department said.

Authorities in New Mexico found an alligator and large quantities of drugs, guns and money at two homes in Albuquerque last month, but they're still searching for a young tiger they think is being being illegally kept as a pet.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An endangered Mexican gray wolf that managed to breach an “outdoor, off-exhibit containment area” at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Monday morning did so by climbing its way out. “Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is working on modifications to prevent a breach in the future,” Gerling stated. Vernon said that Chris Kuhar, executive director of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, called the association right after the incident occurred, as is protocol. “Cleveland Metroparks Zoo takes these incidents very seriously, training for these types of scenarios on a regular basis,” the email stated. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo received its first Mexican gray wolves in 2009.

Otero County's Couy Griffin, who was convicted of entering a restricted area during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, must be removed from office for his involvement in an insurrection, a judge ruled.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) pledged $10 million for a clinic ahead of a potential increase in abortion seekers from states that restrict access.

New Mexico's governor has signed a new executive order that pledges $10 million to build a clinic that would provide abortions and other pregnancy care.

In the case of four murdered Muslim men in Albuquerque, Muhammad Syed, an Afghan refugee, has now been charged with the murder of three of the victims.

In the case of four murdered Muslim men in Albuquerque, Muhammad Syed, an Afghan refugee, has now been charged with the murder of three of the victims.

Experts aren’t sure why it’s happening.

More than four months and $300 million later, the federal government has declared the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history 100% contained.

A 29-year-old from Tucson, Arizona, was among a group of hikers who were swept away by floodwaters rushing through a popular hiking location.

From Arizona to New Mexico deserts and Louisiana swamps, a high pressure system is dumping rain in the South, triggering mass flooding.

A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park. In Duncan, a rural Arizona town located about 180 miles (290 kilometers) from Phoenix, weekend rains overwhelmed a dirt-barrier levee built more than a century ago to contain the Gila River, putting the town under inches of water. As many as 60 residents have evacuated, Fire Chief Hayden Boyd said.

In all, 60 Native American artists, museum professionals, storytellers and political leaders collaborated to curate the exhibit. The effort also created a set of guidelines for collaboration that can help Native American communities everywhere communicate and build trust with museums. Native American artists, political leaders and storytellers picked their favorite ceramic pieces from institutional collections that didn't always defer to Indigenous perspectives. “We try to make sure everyone’s voice is represented in some way,” said Poon, director of the Indian Arts Research Center. Native American artists, political leaders and storytellers picked their favorite ceramic pieces from institutional collections that didn't always defer to Indigenous perspectives.

In addition to the heavy rain in New Mexico, flooding rushed through parts of Utah and Arizona, according to media reports.

People in Arizona and Nevada won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite more Colorado River water shortages.

Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin is fighting to keep his seat as a New Mexico county commissioner as he faces possible removal and disqualification from public office for his participation in last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “This lawsuit is about removing a duly elected county commissioner from office through the civil court,” Griffin said in court. On the witness stand Monday, Griffin said he went to Washington, D.C. to peacefully protest and pray with other Trump supporters.

For the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought.

Seven Western U.S. states face a deadline from the federal government to come up with a plan to use substantially less Colorado River water in 2023.

A primary suspect has been detained in the murders of four Muslin men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, police say.

Police have announced a breakthrough in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Native American artists, political leaders and storytellers are the final arbiters of taste and style for a traveling exhibition of pottery from the Pueblo Indian region of the Southwestern U.S. They've plucked their favorite pieces from institutional collections in New Mexico and New York that didn’t always defer to Indigenous perspectives.

The Rio Grande went dry in Albuquerque last week for the first time in four decades.

Relatives say Sunday that Nichelle Nichols, who broke ground for Black women acting on television as the beautiful, no-nonsense communications officer Lt. Ntoya Uhura on the original “Star Trek” TV series, has died at the age of 89. Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ rabid fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies. It also earned her accolades for breaking racial stereotypes and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.

It made Route 66 and Interstate 40 drivers in New Mexico do double takes.

A federal judge says that a conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records online for the public to see can move forward over the objections of New Mexico election regulators.

A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp for young people in New Mexico with former players from Colombia as the instructors.

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Family Dollar has issued a recall covering more than 400 products sold at its stores in almost every state, including Michigan.

With hotter and drier weather plaguing New Mexico, water managers are warning that more stretches of one of North America’s longest rivers will be drying up in the coming days.

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the release of a new series of stamps honoring the traditional Mexican genre of mariachi.

New Mexico’s governor says direct spending by production companies on films, TV series and other media has never been higher in the state, topping $855 million in fiscal year 2022.

Investigators say a Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and that he had methamphetamine in his system.

Physicians and researchers are urging New Mexico legislators to allow the use of psychedelic mushrooms in mental health therapy aimed at overcoming depression, anxiety, psychological trauma and alcoholism.

U.S. Forest Service employees made multiple miscalculations, used inaccurate models and underestimated how dry conditions were, causing a planned burn to reduce the threat of wildfires to turn into the largest blaze in New Mexico's recorded history.

Behind the raw public frustration and anger over election security that has played out this week in New Mexico was a hint of something deeper — a growing divide between the state’s Democratic power structure and conservative rural residents who feel their way of life is under attack.

An elected official who was a central figure in a New Mexico county’s refusal to certify recent election results based on debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines has avoided more jail time for joining the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol.

New Mexico’s Democratic governor wants the Biden administration to delay planned or expanded efforts to transport migrants to her state if pandemic-related restrictions on asylum seekers are lifted.

Votes in a New Mexico community are at risk of not counting after a Republican-led commission refused to approve primary election results over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines.

President Joe Biden says he is escalating federal assistance for New Mexico as it faces its largest wildfire in recorded state history.

Boeing's astronaut taxi has returned to Earth from the International Space Station, completing a repeat test flight with a mannequin on board.

Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf from the ashes of the nation’s largest wildfire as calving season approaches its peak in early June and fires rage across the American Southwest.

Light rain and a bit of snow in the mountains of northern New Mexico helped slow the largest wildfire in North America.

Cooler weather is helping nearly 3,000 firefighters in New Mexico prevent the nation’s largest active wildfire from growing.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service is suspending planned burning operations to clear out brush and small trees at all national forests while his agency conducts a 90-day review of protocols and practices.

More than 5,000 firefighters are battling multiple wildland blazes in dry, windy weather across the Southwest.